Sep 15, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Book of Mormon, Health
Dear Gramps, I have bought rice and other items for food storage and put them in clear plastic air tight containers. When I went to use some of the rice it had bugs in it. How is the best way to prevent this? Vicki, from Van, Texas Dear Vicki, Two ways to consider….....
Sep 13, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, LDS Scriptures
Question Dear Gramps, Paul speaks quite degradingly about women. He makes it sound like women are completely inferior creatures. How they are subject to their husbands in such a way that they can only learn the gospel or ask any gospel questions to their...
Sep 12, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Church History, Pearl of Great Price
Dear Gramps, At the time Joseph Smith received the record of Abraham, which was subsequently translated into what we now know as the Book of Abraham in the Pearl Of Great Price, he also received the record of Joseph. That record was apparently translated, but not...
Sep 10, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Doctrine & Covenants
Dear Gramps, In the book of Revelation, John says he saw a vision of the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of the heavens so to speak, but in the Doctrine and Covenants it says that the New Jerusalem will be built, can you help me understand this? Andy, from...
Sep 9, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Jesus Christ
Question Dear Gramps, Who was Mary Magdalene? What type of woman was she? How did the Savior meet her? Christie Answer Dear Christie, The only things known about Mary Magdalene are those recorded by three of the four writers of the gospel,...
Sep 3, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Etymology
Dear Gramps,I was reading in Matthew 19 and in verse 24 it says It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of god.” I’ve heard this many times but was told the eye of a needle refers to a hole in a wall...
Sep 2, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Doctrine & Covenants
Dear Gramps, What does the scripture mean that says in D&C 49:20, But it is not given that one man should possess that which is above another, wherefore the world lieth in sin. It would appear here that the Lord despises economic inequality. Curtis Dear...
Aug 30, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Book of Mormon
Hello Gramps, I am working with my son, preparing him for a mission, we were discussing the pages of the manuscript that was lost to us because of Martin Harris. I remember learning about how the Lord did not have Joseph Smith re-translate it. I cannot remember the...
Aug 28, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Doctrine & Covenants, Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ, Mormon Doctrine, Preparedness, Repentance
Dear Gramps, I’ve been told the Holy Spirit of Promise mentioned in D&C 88:3-4 is the Holy ghost as mentioned and referred to in John 14:16, while the second comforter is Jesus Christ. However, some of the references that are given under these two verses seem to...
Aug 27, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible
Gramps, My Mother-in-law is Presbyterian and they are using a version of the Bible that I had not heard of. It is in paperback and says there were other people on earth when Adam and Eve were here, so when they left the garden it was with those people their sons had...
