Nov 13, 2006 | Missionary Work, Mormon Doctrine
Question Dear Gramps, What can I do if our Mormon Church is described as a sect? How do I react? Thank you so much, Lennart Answer Dear Lennart, There are many opportunities for missionary work, and this is one of them. A sect is usually thought...
Nov 12, 2006 | Obedience, Premortal Life, Trials
Question Dear Gramps, I accidentally clicked on a link that inadvertently led me to a question posed about how foreordination/predestination and freedom to choose can be non-mutually exclusive. I write to you today to share with you my thoughts and see if you...
Nov 12, 2006 | Premortal Life
Question Dear Gramps, My question is somewhat existential, somewhat theological, and purely speculative, I think. I believe in an existence prior to mortality—that individual “spirits” or “essences” (or whatever philosophical parlance you prefer) gathered...
Nov 11, 2006 | Jesus Christ, Mormon Doctrine, Premortal Life
Question Dear Gramps, I have been reading the questions about other worlds and how the Savior atoned for the sins of all the different worlds. I knew that He was the only Savior but what I want to know is, why was I or you or anyone placed on this world? You...
Nov 9, 2006 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, I had always heard that we picked who our parents were going to be in the Pre-existence. And then on the other hand I was told that we could have married ANYONE and had children and been happy. So did we know that we were going to come to...
Nov 9, 2006 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, If murder is wrong/breaking a commandment how will the Lord look upon killing another human being during wartime? If I remember right, President David O. McKay gave an amazing piece of sound doctrine regarding this. Again, one of my early...
Nov 8, 2006 | Joseph Smith, LDS Scriptures
Question 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...
Nov 7, 2006 | Life's Lessons
Question Dear Gramps: I’ve been asked by my bishop to teach a class on how to be better Sunday speakers. I’m not sure if I’m being specific enough. The problem is that when members are assigned to give a speech they never seem to prepare themselves, and this is...
Nov 6, 2006 | Church History, LDS Scriptures
Question Dear Gramps, I would like to know who divided the Book of Mormon into chapters and verses and, if possible, when. Thank you very much. Lennart Answer Dear Lennert, The Book of Mormon was first divided into chapters and verses in 1879 by...
