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: 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…
