General Conference, ‘Each a Better Person,’ October 2002; “I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?” – Gordon B. Hinckley 1 Timothy 2:5; “For there […]
General Conference, ‘The Marvelous Foundation of Our Faith,’ October 2002 “…They came, both of Them, that Joseph saw Them in Their resplendent glory, that They spoke to him and that he heard and recorded Their words—of these remarkable things we testify. I knew a so-called intellectual who said the Church was trapped by its history. […]
Image by Kirk Grim Today we’ll be covering questions 9 and 10 of our ongoing series based on the article, ‘51 questions that might lead you to Mormonism’. Why does Paul say that there are lots of gods? (1 Cor 8:5) In respect to the Word, and reading it in context, I’d like to extend […]
Image by Kirk Grim Today we’ll be covering questions 7 and 8 of our ongoing series based on the article ‘51 questions that might lead you to Mormonism’. Question 7 “Why do people believe God the Father and Jesus Christ are one being when Christ refers to himself and His Father as two men? (John […]
Isaiah 6:1; “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.” As you probably figured out, today we’re looking at temples! Our objective is to look at why our Lord said we shouldn’t have more than one temple […]
Ensign, ‘Trust In the Lord,’ November 1995; “The Lord’s plan is to exalt you to live with Him and be greatly blessed. The rate at which you qualify is generally set by your capacity to mature, to grow, to love, and to give of yourself. He is preparing you to be a god. You cannot […]
New Era, ‘People on Other Worlds,’ April 1971; “A great many Christians today…have long since abandoned the doctrine that man was created in the image of God. … […]
Journal of Discourses 20:211; “God revealed to him (Joseph Smith) not only the fact of Divine existence, but even how he became God; that it was through living up to correct principles, and by developing within himself every sublime sentiment that had its origin in truth. He taught him how the people “who dwelt on the earth” […]
Psalm 75:6-7; “For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.” Today we’re looking at the Sovereignty of God! As a Mormon I had never heard of such a thing, and always believed I was […]
Exodus 15:11; “Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?” Articles of Faith, p. 42; “God is not omnipresent…cannot be physically present in more than one place at a time … If God possesses a form, that form is of necessity of […]
