If God, as a celestial being, can procreate and produce spirits, how is an actual BODY created?
Question Dear Gramps, I just read the question about why Eve was taken from Adam’s rib and not another body part, to which you answered that it is allegorical. Next, you stated that Adam and Eve were born as we are born (which I take to mean a physical birth)....
Were any of the more wicked spirits who were permitted to come to earth able to change their minds and follow Satan?
Question Dear Gramps, After the split of the spirits where 1/3 were sent to earth and 2/3 stayed, were any of the 2/3 borderline in their decision and able to change there mind or come to earth for a body and be disruptive here? This was a discussion I had with...
Is marriage for eternity in the Mormon temple a requirement for exaltation in the celestial kingdom?
Question Dear Gramps, Should the quotation from John Taylor be interpreted as meaning that those who do not marry in this life may have the opportunity to do so in the millennium, thereby attaining exaltation, if they are otherwise worthy? I have been an...
Do some difficulties that we experience in life come to us to prove our worthiness and others come as a result of disobedience?
Question Dear Gramps, I accidentally clicked on a link that inadvertently led me to a question posed about how foreordination/predestination and freedom to choose can be non-mutually exclusive. I write to you today to share with you my thoughts and see if you...
Does free agency imply predestination?
Question Dear Gramps, My question is somewhat existential, somewhat theological, and purely speculative, I think. I believe in an existence prior to mortality—that individual “spirits” or “essences” (or whatever philosophical parlance you prefer) gathered...
Were we born on the this earth as punishment for bad deeds in the pre-mortal spirit world?
Question Dear Gramps, I have been reading the questions about other worlds and how the Savior atoned for the sins of all the different worlds. I knew that He was the only Savior but what I want to know is, why was I or you or anyone placed on this world? You...
In the pre-mortal spirit world do we select who our parents will be in mortality?
Question Dear Gramps, I had always heard that we picked who our parents were going to be in the Pre-existence. And then on the other hand I was told that we could have married ANYONE and had children and been happy. So did we know that we were going to come to...
Will spirit children born after the great war in heaven come under the saving grace of the Savior’s great atoning sacrifice?
Satan’s plan was to save all the children of the Father by forcing them to comply with the Father’s will. Satan’s plan was rejected and its proponents were banished from heaven.
Is there revelation concerning family arrangements made in pre-mortality?
There is no scriptural reference to pre-mortal family arrangements, but many patriarchal blessings have made reference to them.
