Apr 25, 2025 | Family Roots, World History
Question Gramps, I heard there were three classifications of Lamanites: Native Americans, Polynesians, and Latinos/Hispanics. Are they considered Lamanites? Probably not all of those people are descended from Book of Mormon people. Are they considered to be...
Jan 6, 2025 | World History
Question Gramps, Who has a claim to the “Holy” Land (Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, whatever you want to call it) and how will the political landscape of that area look during the Millennium? Peter Answer Peter, Let’s begin with Abraham, to...
Dec 3, 2024 | World History
Question Gramps, What can you tell us about the Narrative of Zosimus and why wasn’t it revealed in the past (1830 period)? Drew Answer Drew, The exploration of ancient texts often reveals profound insights into the beliefs and narratives that...
Aug 1, 2024 | Bible, Book of Mormon, World History
Question Gramps, When Cherokee Indians were first contacted by journalist Timberlake in the early 1700’s, he was very surprised that they had a complete knowledge of all of the information in the first five books in the old testament. Does that prove they...
Jul 21, 2018 | AAAA AskGramps Website, World History
Question Gramps, In Israel of old, they offered sacrifices symbolic of God’s sacrificing his perfect Lamb. Since the crucifixion of Christ, that has become unnecessary and essentially replaced with the sacrament. If the modern day Jews do not believe that...
Jul 5, 2018 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Temples, World History
Question Gramps, How many temples were built in Jerusalem and when? Elizabeth Answer Dear Elizabeth, The bible tells us the first temple was the Temple of Solomon built around 957 BC. This was to replace the portable tabernacle that they had used...
Jul 4, 2018 | AAAA AskGramps Website, World History
Question Hi Gramps. The signing of the Declaration of Independence was one of the most illegal things the Founding Fathers did. It was high treason against the government. Yet, we believe the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence was inspired...
Jun 14, 2018 | AAAA AskGramps Website, World History
Question Dear Gramps, I understand that some of the tribes of Israel that were lost, went north. Over 30 years ago I worked in the northernmost part of Norway for several years. Once when a friend of mine, who was in the insurance business, and I went to a Sami...
Mar 17, 2018 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Etymology, World History
Question Hi Gramps, Did people in that time use “miles” or some other term of measurement like leagues? Was it really that far from Nazareth to Bethlehem? Rebecca Answer Dear Rebecca, Among the lengths of measure used in the Bible cubit, Matt...
Mar 2, 2018 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Faith, World History
Question Gramps, I was wondering today as I read a book that a non-Mormon friend gave to me to read. It raised a few questions inside of me. The biggest question on my mind is in regards to a man named Emanuel Swedenborg. He wrote a book called ‘A Treatise...
