By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2009 Joseph Smith called Doctrine and Covenants 133 a revelation, but unlike his other revelations in the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants in 1835,…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2009 How and why did an article that was an appendix in the Doctrine and Covenants become a revelation? Did these “revelations” contradict other teachings from…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2009 Four articles first appeared in the Appendix of the 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants. Two of those articles were deleted entirely from the…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2009 In the January 2009 Ensign, the LDS Sunday school General Presidency said “The Doctrine and Covenants (is) a marvelous book of revelation that was written…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2009 Joseph F. Smith, the sixth LDS Prophet, claimed he had a vision about the redemption of the dead on October 3, 1918. But his vision…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2009 Mormons teach that one of the signs of the true church is that it will have prophets who provide current revelation. Since LDS claim to…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2009 Joseph Smith, Mormonism’s founder, said he received Doctrine and Covenants 132 as a revelation from God commanding him and other Mormons to have a plurality…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2009 Before June 1978, black males of African descent could join the LDS Church, but couldn’t hold any office in either LDS priesthood, nor could they…
By: Dr. Steven C. Riser; ©{{{copyright}}} What is preaching? One classic definition is: It is God’s truth through human personality. It’s the spiritual activity of a God-ordained person and a…
By: Dr. Steven Riser; ©2009 Have you ever noticed how much worship is taking place all around you every day? Everybody is extolling somebody or something. Calvin said, “The human…