Jan 10, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, LDS Scriptures
Question Gramps, Please tell me what you know about this Peleg, Was he a Priesthood holder. Why was the earth changed so violently.? We know so little about this person. JLeo Answer Dear JLeo, The only source information on Peleg is found in...
Jan 10, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, LDS Scriptures
Question Gramps, Here’s my question. I was reading a report by Hugh Nibley on the atonement in which he talks about how in the New Testament, the translators of it used the word “reconcile” instead of “atonement.” (He said this is found in the translation from...
Jan 7, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, LDS Scriptures
Question Gramps, We have received the anti-Mormon video “The Lost Book of Abraham” which claims that the scrolls of Abraham are from the Egyptian Book of the Dead and, according to modern Egyptologists, have a totally different translation than...
Jan 7, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, LDS Scriptures
Question Dear Gramps; Can you please explain how the “descendants of the Priests of Noah…were as numerous, nearly, as were the Nephites” (Alma 43:13-14) (About 74 B.C.), when “among the Lamanites who were slain were almost all the seed of Amulon and his...
Jan 6, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, LDS Scriptures
Question Gramps, In our discussion on faith in Relief Society last Sunday, we spoke of Abraham and Isaac and their faith that God would provide. Someone made the statement that Isaac was a grown man and would have had to help himself onto the altar…that Abraham...
Jan 4, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Joseph Smith, LDS Scriptures
Question Hi Gramps, I’m a convert of some 42+ years now and am still excited about being a member. I’ve recently read the book ‘The Bible Code.’ I was very impressed with the apparent accuracy of the incidents noted therein. I was...
Jan 4, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, LDS Scriptures
Question Dear Gramps, I’m hoping that you can clear up a matter between a co-worker and myself. He say’s that women are not to be teaching in church according to the bible. 1 Corinthians, chapter 14, verses 34 & 35. I say he is mis-interpreting this. He...
Jan 3, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, God, LDS Scriptures, Marriage, Mormon Doctrine, Premortal Life, Second Coming, Temples
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...
Jan 1, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Jesus Christ, LDS Scriptures
Question Gramps, You have helped me several times, and I am hoping you are a scripturist too. A Catholic friend sent me a letter requesting that I say a novena for a very ill friend. I, of course, will not alienate him by saying that Mormons don’t say novenas,...
Dec 20, 2006 | AAAA AskGramps Website, LDS Scriptures
Question Gramps, What was the name that King Benjamin gave the people that is referred to in Mosiah 1:12? Christopher Answer Dear Christopher, The name that King Benjamin gave his subjects, as referred to in Mosiah 1:12, is the name of Christ. If...
