Dear Gramps,

Your opinion please on the Zodiac. I recently heard a description offered in a talk by a protestant minister that made sense to me. He indicated that each sign was given in order of progression in man’s mission back to our heavenly home. He also stated that the book of Job is the oldest book in the Old Testament. Thanks.

Floyd, from Arizona

Dear Floyd,

Have you ever read in the scriptures or heard a General Authority attribute any significance to the signs of the Zodiac? That’s where I get my opinions!

There is general agreement among scholars that the Book of Job is the oldest book of the Bible. Your protestant minister was not revealing anything new. Here’s an excerpt from an article that appeared in the Mormon Evening and Morning Star, Nov. 1832, p. 47, concerning the Book of Job, that was written by William Phelps:

Men of moral characters, as well as the disciples of Jesus Christ, generally venerate sacred or sublime writings. Faultless rules, pure principles, and the truth, coming from man, or through the Spirit of the living God, have ever found friends, and while virtue has a mansion in the heart of man, we fear no change. Dr. Blair, who lived up to such good opinions of good things, when reviewing the bible, thus speaks of the book of Job: It is known to be extremely ancient; generally reputed the most ancient of all poetical books; the author uncertain.

Gramps