Aug 22, 2012 | Afterlife, Jesus Christ, Second Coming
Dear Gramps, We are taught that at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ that everyone living a Telestial law or lower will be burned and go to the Spirit Prison. At the same time, the righteous saints in Paradise will be resurrected. My question for you is: With such a...
Jul 28, 2012 | Death, Mormon Policy
Question Dear Gramps, I’ve been told that LDS have been counseled not to cremate their dead. But a good LDS friend of mine died while on a trip to Costa Rica, and his non-member family in the states had the authorities there cremate him and ship his ashes...
Jun 26, 2012 | Afterlife, Premortal Life
Question Gramps, I could not find the answer, so I hope I am not asking it again. In Sunday School a sister said her mom, who had passed away, knew and talked to her grandchild, this woman’s daughter, in the pre-existence. I thought that would be...
Jun 23, 2012 | Afterlife, Satan
Question Gramps, Will Satan who represents evil be bound forever for all of Heavenly Father’s children and all earths? Will this struggle be an eternal one for all worlds as they are created and populated with mankind? My son asked me this question and I...
May 1, 2012 | Afterlife, Mormon Doctrine
Is there such thing as heaven or hell? Are they just a state of being? Why are we divided into three degrees of heaven? And if the wicked go to the telestial kingdom, who goes to the spritual prison? I do not see why God would put the non-believers into prison and get...
Dec 30, 2011 | Afterlife, Mormon Doctrine
Can non members of the church attain celestial glory from Spirit Prison? Stephen ____________ Stephen, Yes they can, and I have no doubt that quite a few will. The requirement for entrance into the Celestial Kingdom is that the individuals commit to the covenants of...
Dec 28, 2011 | Afterlife, Doctrine & Covenants
Dear Gramps, In D&C Section 76, it details a vision given to Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon of the three degrees of glory. Verse 72 describes one possible condition that will lead to inheritance of the Terrestrial kingdom, i.e., those who die without law. Yet...
Dec 2, 2011 | Afterlife, Children
Dear Gramps As a young teenager, trying to find her own testimony, my daughter was badly and publically embarrassed and upset by her youth leaders and several of the youth. The trauma of the upset sent her into Church inactivity and now, in her early 20s, she no...
Nov 8, 2011 | Babies, Death
I’ve heard that those who die before the age of accountability do so because they are so perfect they don’t need the experience of mortal life. As most people die before the age of accountabiity and many people in the Millenium grow up without sin there...
