After Christ’s 2nd coming, is the cycle restarted with a new Christ and a new earth?
Question Gramps, I believe God will never cease to have children, and those children all need to go through life on an earth. So after Christ's second coming, is the cycle restarted and begins all over again with a new Christ and new earth(s)? This brings up...
I am struggling with my faith. Why isn’t Heavenly Father answering my prayers?
Question Gramps, I am struggling with my faith. No big event triggered it, just a culmination of things. I am doing what I can to overcome it. But it seems that the canned answers of “study the scriptures, “pray sincerely,” fasting, searching, reading the...
Is there such a thing as a blessing of faith?
Question Gramps, Hello, my question for you today is, is there such a thing as a blessing of faith? One given by the laying on of hands but not with priesthood authority. Just by the faith of the person giving and receiving the blessing. I ask this as I hold...
I have major concerns about my daughter’s future marriage. What can a father do?
Question Gramps, We have a daughter at BYU Idaho dating a person that is a religious zealot and they are engaged and he uses everything to the letter with regards to what general authorities have counseled to his advantage. They have dated less than six months...
Are my mental disorders a result of sin?
Question Gramps, I have an Anxiety Disorder, OCD, and a few phobias. All have to do with fear. If Satan makes us fear, are my mental illnesses just a creation of Satan's? Did I get these because I'm not worthy enough? I thought fear is what kept us alive and my...
Did Satan really take on the form of a serpent to beguile Eve?
Question Dear Gramps, When explaining why she ate the forbidden fruit, Eve states that the "serpent" beguiled her. In this instance is the word serpent meant to be a metaphor, or are we to understand that Satan took that form when speaking to Eve, and if he...
Is it the Law of Sacrifice or the Law of Consecration?
Question Gramps, I have always had this doubt about tithes. If we could assign this principle to one of these two laws, what would it be? Felipe Answer Dear Felipe, You're not alone in your struggle regarding tithing. However, the commandment...
Is there any intelligent reason that I should marry if I am perfectly content as a single adult?
Question Dear Gramps, I am a 26 year old male. I have no desire for a wife. Im not sinning in a sexual way at all. Is it a sin to simply go through life without a mate? I’m a very independent person and the thought of constant company of another person...
Were Adam and Eve and the animals created at the same time?
Question Dear Gramps, In reading the book of Moses and Genesis, the description of the creation seems to indicate that the beasts of the field were created at the same time as Man and Woman. There are teachings that indicate Adam and Eve were created separately...
Could the Sami people of northern Norway be descended from one of the lost tribes of Israel?
Question Dear Gramps, I understand that some of the tribes of Israel that were lost, went north. Over 30 years ago I worked in the northernmost part of Norway for several years. Once when a friend of mine, who was in the insurance business, and I went to a Sami...
