by Dan Wees | Sep 26, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“My wife has borne to me fifteen children. Anything short of this would have been less than her duty and privilege.” George Franklin Richards, Relief Society Magazine – Volume 3, no. 7 (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, July...
by Dan Wees | Sep 23, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“Young man, don’t ever write a thesis on a Mormon subject; if you do, you’ll be cut off from the Church. Half the people in the Church would apostatize if they knew the true history of the church.” B.H. Roberts – 1931, see Shannon Caldwell...
by Dan Wees | Sep 22, 2020 | Miscellaneous
Did Joseph Smith utilize the Adam Clarke Bible Commentary while producing the Book of Mormon (BOM)? We know Joseph took the advice to heart when Clarke made it clear the words “without a cause” did not belong. The Bible verse reads, “But I say unto you, That...
by Dan Wees | Sep 21, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“The privilege of obtaining a mortal body on this earth is seemingly so priceless that those in the [pre-existence] spirit world, even though unfaithful or not valiant, were undoubtedly permitted to take mortal bodies although under penalty of racial or physical or...
by Dan Wees | Sep 19, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“We are required to tell the truth but we are not required to tell the whole truth.” Boyd K. Packer; see Gregory A. Prince’s Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 30 May 2016),...
by Dan Wees | Sep 18, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“Under the pulpit in the west End [of the Salt Lake Temple] will be a place to Offer Sacrafizes [sic]. There will be an Altar prepared for that purposes so that when any sacrifices are to be offered they should be offered there.” Wilford Woodruff, Journal: 1833-1898...
