By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2008 Joseph Smith said the Lord named their church the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because they were living in the last days and…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2008 Joseph Smith, the founding Prophet and first President of the Mormon Church, was a polygamist. He claimed God revealed to him that he and other…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2008 Polygamy was so important in early Mormonism that their first seven Prophets or Presidents and thousands of members were polygamists. “The Lord” commanded Joseph Smith…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2008 The current heading of Doctrine and Covenants Section 132 says it is a “Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded July…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2008 Doctrine and Covenants Section 132 has 66 verses, most of which focus on Joseph Smith and “the new and everlasting covenant” of eternal marriage and…
By: Darrell Boan; ©2010 I want to address another way of analyzing the concept of “eternal matter” as taught in the Mormon Church. I recently did a couple of posts…
By: Darrell Boan; ©2010 Is and acutal infinite coherent and how does the concept of an actual infinite apply to the universe, time, creation, and Mormonism? Is An Actual Infinite…
By: Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D., Discovery Institute; ©May 1, 2009 Figuring out what Charles Darwin’s religious views actually were is immensely difficult, and this for several reasons. Figuring out what Charles…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2010 The first chapter of Isaiah in the Joseph Smith Translation [JST] is exactly the same as the King James Version of the Bible, including all…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2010 In 1979 the LDS Church published an edition of the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible that has parts of the Joseph Smith Translation…