Tag: Doctrine and Covenants

The Lord was serious enough about having a house built where he cousins endow His people that He gave multiple revelations calling on the people to build it.

All truth and intelligence is independent with that sphere in which it has been placed to act… Scientific truth has limited impact on doctrinal understanding. Legal initiatives or injunctions cannot infringe on the laws of the physical world. Likewise, people have agency within the sphere of their station. Examples: Children have agency within their sphere…

I thought this was interesting. It is clear that the Lord is talking less about having free children and more about not stretching yourself too thin by trying to help everybody. It appears that when the revelations says “family” it is referring to people living together at one residence, including those taken in and supported…

I love the admonition that we are too learn to impart add the gospel requires. Individually and collectively we still have things to learn about how we share what we have to lift everyone up without giving up on individual liberty and freedom of choice.

I’ve never paid attention to this parable before but the Lord calls twelve laborers to the field and signs each to a place in the field then visits each one in turn. He visits an hour with each and labor with them during that hour. The thing I notice is that they labor in their…

Does “the end of all nations” spoken of mean that nationalities will cease to matter? Will this be before the millennial reign out during it? There are many ways this could be fulfilled but we will either unite into something larger than nations it fracture into clans and families.

Therefore, take with you those who are ordained unto the lesser priesthood, and send them before you to make appointments, and to prepare the way, and to fill appointments that you yourselves are not able to fill. Behold, this is the way that mine apostles, in ancient days, built up my church unto me. Therefore,…

The Lord started that those who do not come into Him are under the bondage of sin. Is that because by not coming to him their sins have not been washed clean in His blood or does it mean something more, that all those who do not come into him are necessarily under the influence…

The elders of the church were regularly seeking revelation and receiving it. The Lord makes clear that receiving more revelation places them under a greater responsibility to obey what they have been taught.

It just occurred to me that the 144,000 that the Jehovah’s witnesses focus so much on are explicitly to come evenly from each of the twelve tribes. I have long known that they were faithful high protests but it never occurred to me that the Jehovah’s Witnesses list were people who likely didn’t even know…