by Dan Wees | Jun 10, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“We have heard men who hold the Priesthood remark, that they would do any thing they were told to do by those who presided over them, if they knew it was wrong: but such obedience as this is worse than folly to us; it is slavery in the extreme; and the man who...
by Dan Wees | Jun 10, 2018 | Miscellaneous
How the Mormons punked the press…...
by Dan Wees | Jun 10, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Joseph Smith never needed to step outside the walls of his own home to stumble upon the name of his central Book of Mormon character. The most common Bibles circulating in New England households during the 1820s were the 1769 King James editions. Unlike many modern...
by Dan Wees | Jun 10, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“& we began to till the ground yea even with all manner of seeds with seeds of corn & of wheat & of barl[e]y & with neas & with Sheum & with seeds of all manner of fruits & we did begin to multiply & prosper in the land” Mosiah 9:9...
by Dan Wees | Jun 10, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[D]oubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.” Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Come, Join with Us (Salt Lake City, UT: Ensign Magazine – November 2013), 5 October 2013 General Conference...
by Dan Wees | Jun 9, 2018 | Miscellaneous
The church remains deliberately vague about which “sins” bar entry into heaven, using this ambiguity to keep members constantly scrutinizing every thought and action. “… I cannot tell you all the things whereby ye may commit sin for there are divers ways & means...