BoM Narrative Based on Early 19th Century Hot Topics

BoM Narrative Based on Early 19th Century Hot Topics

The Millennial Harbinger, Vol. 2:93 “This prophet Smith, through his stone spectacles, wrote on the plates of Nephi, in this book of Mormon, every error and almost every truth discussed in New York for the last ten years. He decided all the great controversies;—infant...

LDS: Our Redeemed Gods, and Conjugal Love

LDS: Our Redeemed Gods, and Conjugal Love

“For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.” 1 Kings 14:23 The Seer, Vol. 1 and 2, pp. 23-24“The Gods who dwell in the heavens from which our spirits came, are beings who have been redeemed from the...

LDS: Anti-Polygamy Laws Unconstitutional

LDS: Anti-Polygamy Laws Unconstitutional

Journal of Discourses 14:267 “It is the violation of the natural rights of man that has deluged the earth with blood in all ages. These principles were enunciated also by Joseph Smith, he believed in them, so do we, in the right to think, in the right to speak, in the...

Remembering 75th Anniversary of D-Day

Remembering 75th Anniversary of D-Day

 On June 6, 1944 at 06:30 a.m. more than 160,000 troops began storming the western shores of France. D-Day had begun. Adolph Hitler was sound asleep. There aren’t enough words in the English language to thank those who fought, and for those who paid the ultimate...

No Other Name So Wide Spread as Joseph Smith

No Other Name So Wide Spread as Joseph Smith

Gospel Doctrine, Chapter 25, p. 480 “THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH. Brother Woodruff, in the course of his remarks, made the assertion that Joseph Smith was the greatest prophet that has ever lived, of whom we have any knowledge, save and except Jesus Christ himself…Today...

LDS: God is the Happiest of Men

LDS: God is the Happiest of Men

Journal of Discourses 4:222 “God is the happiest of men. I am perfectly satisfied that my Father and my God is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being. He is a jovial person and a beautiful man.” — Heber C. Kimball, Great Salt Lake City, February 8, 1857...

Adam did NOT Sin in Garden of Eden

Adam did NOT Sin in Garden of Eden

 “Fall-Atonement-Resurrection-Sacrament,” in Charge to Religious Educators, 1982, p. 124“What did Adam do? The very thing the Lord wanted him to do; and I hate to hear anybody call it a sin, for it wasn’t a sin. Now this is the way I interpret that: The Lord said to...