What was the correlation between healing and forgiveness in Jesus’ time?
Question Gramps, What was the correlation between healing and forgiveness in Jesus's time and what is the connection in our time between a person being healed and that person being forgiven of sins? David Answer David, Thank you for taking a...
How can an investigator break through his fear of lack of support and friendship?
Question Gramps, My daughter is on a mission, teaching a young man who is 20. He is very interested in the church and praying about baptism but he struggles with lack of support from friends and family. All of his friends and coworkers are very unsupportive and...
If giants were sinful, why do we look up to Nephi?
Question Dear Gramps, I was reading the Bible, and in Genesis 6 the Nephilim was mentioned. It started to mention that they were sinful beings and that's one of the reasons God ordained the flood. Why then, do we look up to Nephi in the Book of Mormon? Hope you...
Nephi risked his life for the brass plates. Why?
Question Gramps, Once Nephi and his brothers got their hands on the brass plates, where did they go? Are the things written on them now in the Book of Mormon? Are they from the Bible? If they were that important that they risked their lives for them, then why...
How did the wisemen follow the star in the east?
Question Gramps, If the three wisemen came from the east, how did they follow the star that was in the east? Wouldn't they need to be traveling west? So the star would have been in the west for them, correct? Donna Answer Dear Donna, This is one...
How could Joseph Smith be a true prophet practicing polygamy?
Question Hey Gramps. I was having a discussion with someone about prophets and how Joseph Smith wasn't a true prophet because he practiced polygamy. I told him that Joseph Smith was a prophet in a new dispensation and he stated that he wasn't because he didn't...
Why aren’t we being warned currently about secret combinations?
Question Gramps, Why, when the Book of Mormon was so clear that secret combinations would be the downfall of America and the world in the last days and modern day prophets, particularly president Benson were very explicit about their control of the world, are...
Will this be the “Mark of the Beast?”
Question Gramps, You may have heard of the CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) that is in the works to be brought to the world banking. Cash would be gone all together. And many are saying that digital IDs will come at the same time, which is a computer chip...
Is dying scary? Are there angels accompanying the dead?
Question Gramps, Someone close to me is in her final days on this earth. She speaks very little and when she does it don’t make sense to those around her. My thoughts have turned to what she is experiencing as she prepares to leave this earthly life. Do we...
Is the story of the flood really just a fairy tale?
Question Gramps, Some snarky online haters doubt that the flood story is true due to the fact that there wouldn't be enough room on that boat for a pair of every animal species alive at that time. How do I rebut their assertions that the story is a fairy tale?...
