Sep 5, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Family, Life's Lessons, Obedience
Dear Gramps, My mother is a member of the church, and she has taken out her own endowments, and my brother too, who went on a mission following this sacred event. She was also sealed to my deceased father and sealed to my brother also. My brother served his mission...
Sep 4, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Book of Mormon, Current issues, Doctrine & Covenants, God, Prayer
Dear Gramps, I feel pretty discouraged when I pray in “someone else’s” behalf and the prayer never seems to get answered. I was listening to a talk radio show that discussed prayer and it was mentioned that God doesn’t answer prayers, we answer...
Sep 3, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Forgiveness, Marriage
Dear Gramps, questions: 1) In Leviticus, chapter 12, it refers to the time a woman was considered unclean after giving birth. Why was that length of time twice as long for the birth of a baby girl than for a baby boy? 2) Have you any idea what would be considered a...
Sep 2, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Faith
Gramps, Have you ever seen Satan? Have you ever seen God or Jesus? If you are honest, you will answer, “no.” I have to ask myself whether or not Mormons should believe Joseph Smith did. The church doesn’t like us to talk about it, but he did have a...
Aug 30, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Mormon Doctrine, Mormon Policy
Gramps, Is there any official Church statement or quote from the brethren concerning talking about Church doctrine outside of Church sanctioned meetings. It seems I heard something like this, that it is requested so we don’t start talking about things we...
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...