by Dan Wees | May 3, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Joseph Smith claimed Moroni quoted Malachi 4:5 in 1823 as such, “Behold I will reveal unto you the Priesthood by the hand of Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.” Joseph Smith, History, 1838–1856 – volume A-1 (Salt Lake...
by Dan Wees | May 3, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I consider it inappropriate for anyone in the church to pray to our Mother in Heaven.” Gordon B. Hinckley – 1991 speech. Quoted in Richard and Joan Ostling’s Mormon America (San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins, 1999),...
by Dan Wees | May 3, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The stupendous truth of the existence of a Heavenly Mother, as well as a Heavenly Father, became established facts in Mormon Theology.” Milton R. Hunter, The Gospel Through the Ages (Salt Lake City, UT: Stevens and Wallis, Inc., 1945),...
by Dan Wees | May 3, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“We, the human family, literally the sons and daughters of Divine Parents, the spiritual progeny of God our Eternal Father, and of our God Mother, are away from home for a season,” James E. Talmage, The Philosophical Basis of “Mormonism” (Salt Lake City, UT: Bureau of...
by Dan Wees | May 3, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“This doctrine that there is a Mother in Heaven was affirmed in plainness by the First Presidency of the Church (Joseph F. Smith, John R. Winder, and Anthon H. Lund) when, in speaking of pre-existence and the origin of man, they said that ‘man, as a spirit, was...
by Dan Wees | May 3, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“We are expressly told that God is the Father of spirits, and to apprehend the literalness of this solemn truth we must know that a Mother of spirits is an existent personality.” James E. Talmage, The Articles of Faith (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ...
