by Dan Wees | Apr 9, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“I do not wonder that the world say the Latter-day Saints do not believe their own revelations. Why? Because we do not practice them.” Orson Pratt – 14 June 1874, Journal of Discourses – Volume 17 (Liverpool, England: Albert Carrington, 1875),...
by Dan Wees | Apr 7, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“It is a fact, so well known, that the Twelve and their adherents have endeavored to carry on this spiritual wife business in secret, that I hardly need mention it here, and have gone to the most seameful [shameful] and desperate lengths, to keep it from the public....
by Dan Wees | Apr 7, 2019 | Miscellaneous
The prepositional phrase “in other words” is used twelve times in the Book of Mormon – never in the Bible. These useless words are clumsy and could be seen as evidence of spontaneous invention/miscalculation. They would normally be discarded by editors, and most...
by Dan Wees | Apr 6, 2019 | Miscellaneous
There are a few passages from the Book of Mormon I honestly felt were divine. Some were so significant they even cemented my testimony in a way. One such verse is found toward the front of the book: “I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of...
by Dan Wees | Apr 4, 2019 | Miscellaneous
William Law was a former First Presidency member of Joseph Smith’s and publisher of the Nauvoo Expositor. He was known by many as a fair and gentle man; not prone to anger, but indignant at Joseph’s attempts to seduce his wife, Jane. He knew the Prophet well –...
by Dan Wees | Apr 4, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“I cannot comprehend our Father in Heaven endowing certain of his children with the unique characteristics of a gay person, [and] then rejecting them … There are things about which I do feel guilt, but I feel no guilt for being a gay man. I feel no guilt for...
