Messenger Magazine
It has become a common belief amongst many Latter-day Saints that the atonement of Jesus extends to other earths like ours. This teaching is common in wards throughout the world, and is mentioned in books about the Savior by several by modern Mormon authors. But is this a revealed doctrine or just a […]
… modern Christians (mainstream Mormons included) are not used the ideas of women laying on hands to heal the sick. This has generally been the function of the priesthood holder, but it was not always this way amongst the Latter-day Saints.
Where have such ideas come from, and why have so many Christians been so keen to believe them? There can be few students of the scriptures who have never heard the statement of Jesus to his disciples that “it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”
Throughout time some true Saints have been excommunicated for doing what is right, sometimes by those seeking to cover their own wrong-doings. In the days of Jesus he warned those who followed him, “They shall put you out of the synagogues.”
The Church and the World walked far apart
On the changing shores of time,
The World was singing a giddy song,
And the Church a hymn sublime.
“Come give me your hand,” said the merry World,
“And walk with me this way!”
Home schooling children is not a modern idea. Throughout the world’s history it was the norm, and produced famous names like Newton, Edison, Einstein, Graham-Bell, the Wright Brothers, DaVinci, Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Churchill, Dickens, C.S. Lewis, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Before the advent of state schooling (and often after) the greatest inventors, scientists, artists, novelists, political and religious leaders received their education from their parents, from their own enthusiasm to learn, and from the religion with which they were associated.
The whereabouts of the lost tribes of Israel has been a mystery regularly debated among Latter-day Saints since the beginning of the restoration of the gospel. Many theories have abounded to explain how they are hidden from our view, with some suggesting they may be living underground near the North Pole, or in some other remote region on the earth which remains yet undiscovered, or hidden from view to explorers.
Although many Latter-day Saints have heard stories of missionaries being able to miraculously speak in foreign languages that were previously unknown to them, the practise of speaking in unknown or heavenly tongues, although spoken of in the scriptures, has not been a feature of LDS worship.
As far as the millions of orthodox Jews in the world are concerned their Messiah has not yet come, and the popular Christian portrayal of Jesus seems very different to them from their expectations of what their Christ should be like. One glaring omission in what they would otherwise consider a perfect and exemplary life […]