Is it known when a spirit enters the body?
Question Dear Gramps, Is it known when a spirit enters a new life? At the moment of conception? Sometime during the pregnancy? Or the moment of birth? Thank you, would love to know your thoughts. Daniel Answer Dear Daniel, There is no scriptural...
How can we believe what the prophet Joseph Smith said about the meaning of the facsimiles in the Book of Abraham?
Question Dear Gramps The problem with the facsimiles in the Pearl of Great Price has nothing to do with them not being spoken of in the book of Abraham. The problem is the deciphering of the symbols accompanying the facsimiles, which say that it is Abraham upon...
Is baptism a requirement to get into the lower two degrees of glory in the celestial kingdom?
Question Dear Gramps, In Doctrine & Covenants131 it doesn’t state that you will have to be baptized to get into the lower two levels of the celestial kingdom. So do you have to be a Mormon or not? Tyra Answer Dear Tyra, Section 131 of the...
What is the stance of the Mormon Church on the use of caffeine?
Question Dear Gramps, I know many Mormon’s do not drink caffeinated drinks. I have heard no prophet has ever said anything against it. Is this true? What is the Church’s stance on caffeine? Justin Answer Dear Justin, It is not true that no prophet...
Is Jesus Christ the only Savior of all the worlds, etc.?
Question Dear Gramps It is difficult to comprehend worlds without number created by Jesus, son of God. Is he the only Savior of all those worlds and do they all have to wait for his resurrection and God was once as we are and Jesus is his Son and so are we. Can...
Is our sun a celestial world?
Question Dear Gramps, When I was a student at BYU I remember reading that our sun is a celestial world. If I remember correctly it was a quote by a prophet. Have you ever heard anything about this? Thank you very much. Lisa Answer Dear Lisa, A...
Do the scraps of papyrus that had been in the possession of Emma Smith disprove the Book of Abraham?
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 Joseph Smith's....
How could the descendants of the priests of Noah in 160 BC be nearly as numerous as the Nephites in 74 BC?
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...
Could you explain the paralysis and panic that I have felt at night?
Question Hi Gramps, I’m wondering about something that happened to me on two different occasions; a couple of years ago, several months apart. Both times I was laying in bed trying to sleep. On the first occasion, I laid down with my youngest child, trying to...
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)....
