Jan 13, 2025 | Obedience, Temples
Question Gramps, Why is the Law of Chastity included as a separate law during the endowment, instead of as part of the Law of Obedience like other commandments? Of course, chastity is incredibly important, but I’ve always been confused by its singular...
Feb 27, 2024 | God, Obedience
Question Dear Gramps, If God is all-knowing and all-powerful, how do we have free will? That seems to contradict itself. If he is all powerful and all knowing, then why would he be making/allowing people to live their life in a way that would derail them from...
May 7, 2019 | Obedience, Worthiness
Question Hey Gramps team! I love your work. You’re the best. I’m considering dabbling into investing. And I’m tempted to find a marijuana company to focus on. I think it’s only a matter of time before recreational marijuana will be tolerated in the nation and...
Sep 23, 2018 | God, Obedience
Question Gramps, If i prayed to become taller, and I was keeping my covenants and doing my part of being obedient to his commandments, If i tried hard enough by training and exercising would God make me taller if I did my part? Tony Answer Tony,...
Sep 21, 2018 | Life's Lessons, Obedience
Question Gramps, I have made covenants in the temple. But I am unworthy to attend, because I stopped tithing. I have failed in many ways. Such as not studying and understanding scripture and as a result not passing that on to my children. The reason I stopped...
May 22, 2018 | Obedience, Scriptures
Question Dear Gramps, Why do Mormons eat pork when they believe in the Old Testament which forbids it? Jessica Answer Dear Jessica, The proscription against eating pork was part of the law of Moses, and it was in force for all the house of Israel...
Apr 27, 2018 | Life's Lessons, Obedience
Question Dear Gramps, How does one truly obtain a pure heart? I am unwillingly being made to go through a divorce right now, and the physical desires and the temptations that accompany them leave me confused and frustrated. To what degree does the Lord hold me...
Mar 7, 2018 | Current issues, Obedience
Question Dear Gramps: What I was thinking about is what is the relation in God knowing everything and our agency? If we have the right to choose and he does know every choice we will be making. So if he knows all that, then he knows where each of us will go in...
