How can a just and perfect God promote the increase of population?
God is in control of his creations. The earth belongs to him. Those who preside over the Mormon Church receive instruction from God with respect to family size and all other religious and moral matters.
Could you prove your claim that Jehovah and Jesus Christ are the same person by using the more modern translations of the Bible?
Question Dear Gramps, You evidently use the King James Version translation of Zechariah 12:10 to prove your claim that Jehovah God and Jesus Christ are one person. Could you prove this claim using more accurate modern Bible translations? Some of them are cited...
Will spirit children born after the great war in heaven come under the saving grace of the Savior’s great atoning sacrifice?
Satan’s plan was to save all the children of the Father by forcing them to comply with the Father’s will. Satan’s plan was rejected and its proponents were banished from heaven.
How can the Mormons say that the Mormon Church is the only true church?
To determine that the Mormon Church is the only true church, it is necessary to ask God and reveive in response a revelation from Him that the Mormon Church is the only true church.
Who, or what are the Nephilim?
The term, Niphilim, is the English version of the Hebrew term meaning giants.
From Isaiah 61:1, how could Jehovah anoint Jesus if they are the same person?
Where the scriptures speak of Jehovah anointing Jesus, it is an allegorical expression demonstrating that the mortal Jesus is compliant with the principals announced by Himself as Jehovah.
How does Matthew 20:30 fit in with celestial marriage?
There is no marrying in heaven, but those who are married in the holy temple during mortality, if they keep the covenants made in that holy ordinance, they will remain as husband and wife in their exalted state throughout all eternity.
Will mortal children be born during the Millennium?
A strain of mortals will propagate during the millennium to perform the proxy work in the Mormon Temples for those who received the gospel in the spirit world after mortality.
What scriptures will help us resist temptation?
There are three categories of disobedience to God–actions, words and thouights. If we can acquire thought control we can avoid all three forms of disobedience.
Why is the angel Moroni always facing east when placed on the temples?
Question Dear Gramps, I’m a host and tour guide on temple square. Many guests ask this same question. “Why is the angel Moroni always facing east when placed on the temples?” Also the corner stone is always placed on the southeast side. Could you please help...
Could paradise and the spirit prison be the same place?
Paradise is a modern phrase. The original term in the scriptures is properly translated as “the spirit world.”
What can I do to help my husband become more active in the Mormon Church?
Rather than trying to convert a loved one by preaching to him, a much more powerful way would be to act as a worthy example of the believers.
It is really gambling if my husband plays poker for only small amounts of money?
Anyone involved in gambling of any sort or for any reason would do well to quit such activity immediately, and thus avoid financial disaster and the breakup of his family.
Why it is so hard to turn the other cheek?
If we take judgement and punishment into our own hands, we will likely give either too much or too little, If we leave it in the Lord’s hands the punishment will be excruciatingly appropriate.
What is the meaning of the expression “the east wind”?
The “east wind” is a euphamism, expressing a destructive force sent forth from God upon the wicked.
How can the Book of Mormon be true when it says in Revelation not to add to nor take away from the prophecy of “This Book”?
“Adding and taking away from the words of the book of this prophecy”, Rev. 22:18-19, refers to the Book of Revelation, not to the entire Bible.
Will I be kept out of the Celestial Kingdom because of an unfaithful spouse?
If a spouse is unfaithful to temple covenants in the Mormon Church, no promised blessing by the Lord will be denied the faithful party.
How are spirit children born?
Spirit children of heavenly parents are born composed of spiritual matter. There is no such thing as immaterial matter.
Where do we find information about the two apostles who will be killed in the streets of Jerusalem?
The “two witnesses” mentioned in Revelations 11 who were killed and left in the street for three and half days are two apostles of the Lord. According to Revelations they will be resurrected after the three and a half days, and ascend to heaven in the sight of all the people.
What will our resurrected bodies look like?
The resurrected body is in the form of the pre-mortal spirit that inhabits the body during mortality. People will be resurrected in the same physical form that they are laid down, for there is no growth in the grave. They will then grow toward an eternally mature stature.
How can I keep my testimony when I feel so depressed all the time?
Depression is not a sin, it is an illness. A testimony is not a feeling, it is the revealed knowledge of the truth.
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