The Book of Commandments was the original Doctrine and Covenants, as I'm sure you know. The printing press was destroyed and the Book of Commandments was unable to be completed. As far as Joseph Smith changing the revelations. I think that original revelations were modified as further light and...
Hahaha. Yes, I too wonder why Basketball courts are at the center of our places of worship. To me at least it would make much more sense if we followed the pattern of the Kirtland Temple. First and second florrs are meeting halls. The attic is offices and classrooms.
There is a therad over on lds.net about fallen prophets. I typed up this response and I want to heard what you guys think. Coming to this understandinghad been part of my spiritual progression over the last two years.
Wilford Woodruff made this statement now included in Official Declaration 1...
Idea that was a great post. That is the type of faith and trust I am trying to develop and I have improved to a certain degree. But I know that I still have a lot of "fear of man" to overcome.
Or a God that commands and old man so sacrifice his son on an altar. Or a God that forces people to marry and have"relations" with their siblings. Or that commands a group of people to kill other people in a certain land. Or that commands a person to kill another man. Or that commands constant...
Well I haven't been on this forum for a while. But while I've been gone I have been developing spiritually. One of the things that have changed is that I have gained a testimony of Plural Marriage. I do believe that it will be restored before the Second Coming and I do believe that I need to...
We are. Look at all the diseases we have. Our lifespan is propped up by medical care.
I don't believe that Eve was literally formed from Adam's rib. But if we assume that Adam and a perfect genetic structure, it would be reasonable that major degradation of the genetic structure would not occur...
Baptism is often compared to a gate. In order to enter God's kingdom we must enter through the gate. Baptism is a covenant that we make with God.
John 3:5
5 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
2 Nephi 31:5...
I remember going to a medival recreation village in junior high. One of the guys there was teaching us about bows and arrows. He held up a bow in his right and and said, "This is a bow." Then he held up an arrow in his left, "And this is an arrow." Then he said, about both the bow and arrow...
Not really. People will in all likelyhood retain their attitudes they develope in this life. So if a person has evil desires in this life, they will have evil desires in the spirit world. But we believe that after Christ died his Spirit went to the spirits in Prison and he establish a program to...
Resurrection:
–noun
1.the act of rising from the dead.
2.(initial capital letter) the rising of Christ after His death and burial.
3.(initial capital letter) the rising of the dead on Judgment Day.
4.the state of those risen from the dead.
5.a rising again, as from decay, disuse, etc...
Yes Lucifer would be classified as an angel. An angel would be a human spirit who has not (yet) been born on earth. The "yet" only discribes those who followed God's plan and will be born on the earth. Those who followed Lucifer will forever remain spirits and never gain bodies.
But human...