Aug 18, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Family
Dear Gramps, If we are punished for our own sins and not for Adam’s (or Eve’s) transgression, then why is it that we must work by the sweat of our brows and in sorrow bear children? Chip @deseretonline.com Dear Chip, When Adam and Eve lived in the Garden...
Aug 17, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues
Dear Gramps, I hope you can answer a question that has always elicited a horrified expression from others before, but no one has ever been able to answer it in the 36 years that I have been an active member of the church. Why, in particular, are we cautioned against...
Aug 15, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues
Gramps, I very much appreciated your insight to the individual who asked about the curse on Cain. I had not before understood the distinction between the mark and the curse. This reminded me, however, of another subject with which I am uncomfortable, and that is the...
Aug 11, 2010 | Current issues
Gramps, How do you explain the remarkable coincidences between Ethan Smith’s (minister to the Cowdery family) view of the Hebrews written in 1825 to Joseph Smith’s Book of Mormon written in 1830? Also, why does genetical research show that American Indians...
Aug 7, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Abortion
Question Gramps, I am a member but I have always wondered what the church has said about abortion. Thanks Gramps! Ashley Answer Dear Ashley, The taking of a human life, either before or after birth, is a grievous sin. The fact that many people in...
Aug 5, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife, Current issues, Death, Priesthood
Dear Gramps, I have a query from a friend who has recently lost her son, aged 33 from cancer. He was an active member of the Church but had not reached the stage of being ordained a High Priest. She would like to know, will he be made a High Priest in the Spirit...
Aug 3, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Faith, Family, Prayer, Priesthood
Question Gramps, Is it wrong for a woman to cast out Satan if her Priesthood holder husband is present but not understanding the need at the time? What words should be used when casting out the angels of darkness? And how can one know it is needed or...
Aug 2, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Babies, Blessings, Current issues, Priesthood
Dear Gramps, When a baby is blessed, is it appropriate to ask the Lord for blessings for the baby or is it appropriate to address the baby and pronounce blessing on the baby? I have heard it done both ways and wonder if one way is correct or if both ways, though...
Jul 31, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Priesthood
Gramps, How does one that holds the Melchizedek Priesthood follow his path back to all the others that held that Priesthood? We are told that we should be able to know who ordained us. Thank you. Leroy, from Pennsylvania Dear Leroy, If you don’t know who...
Jul 29, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Doctrine & Covenants, God, Pearl of Great Price, Premortal Life
Dear Gramps, I have a question. If God is eternal and we are too, then what made God our Heavenly Father before us, since our intelligences have both no beginning (We are all eternal).Our ages (if you can speak of age) are the same. What factor decided that God came...
