I read the daily newsletter by Given O. Blakely. Today he had an insightful and fresh look at some of the names of Jesus. Read it here. If you would like a consistent “diet” of only-Biblical teachings, Given O. is your man, so to speak. I've subscribed...
One of the difficulties involved in leaving Mormonism is that you leave a view of the Godhead that is very compartmentalized. Mormonism's depiction of what it says is the completely separate nature of God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit — these are...
At the Nauvoo Christian Visitors Center in Nauvoo, Illinois, a nine-square quilt hangs that depicts each of nine different versions of that first vision. Edmond C. Gruss and Lane A. Thuet have identified eleven versions. Richard Abanes, in his...
Joseph Smith's own accounts of the first vision must be viewed with some reservations. No mention of his “First Vision” “”which supposedly took place in 1820″”was ever made in print, until twenty years later when Orson Pratt, a longtime friend...
Brigham Young once stated that Joseph”‘s consent was required for a person to be able to enter into the celestial kingdom of heaven, because Joseph was now reigning there, like God. He also said that Joseph “was a god to us” and that he himself...
