Category: Science

  • Follow Prophet Covid

    Follow Prophet Covid

    Follow the prophet, follow the prophet,
    Follow the prophet; don’t go astray.
    Follow the prophet, follow the prophet,
    Follow the prophet; he knows the way.

    Follow the Prophet, Children’s Songbook #110
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/follow-the-prophet?lang=eng

    To limit exposure to these viruses, we urge the use of face masks in public meetings whenever social distancing is not possible. To provide personal protection from such severe infections, we urge individuals to be vaccinated. Available vaccines have proven to be both safe and effective.

    The First Presidency Urges Latter-day Saints to Wear Face Masks When Needed and Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19
    https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/first-presidency-message-covid-19-august-2021
  • Evilution

    Evilution

    There is more than one reason why the church is advising our youth to attend colleges close to their homes where institutes of religion are available. It gives the parents the opportunity to stay close to their children; and if they have become alert and informed as President McKay admonished us last year, these parents can help expose some of the deceptions of men like Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, John Dewey, Karl Marx, John Keynes, and others.

    If your children are taught untruths on evolution in the public schools or even in our church schools, provide them with a copy of President Joseph Fielding Smith’s excellent rebuttal in his book Man, His Origin and Destiny.

    Ezra Taft Benson
    October 1970 General Conference Talk
    https://archive.org/details/conferencereport1970sa/page/n25/mode/2up
  • Asked to Wear Face Masks in Temple

    Asked to Wear Face Masks in Temple

    We are grateful that in recent months, some level of ordinance work has resumed in every temple. Our desire is to keep temples open.

    As cases of COVID-19 increase in many areas, we want to do everything possible to allow temples to remain open. Therefore, effective immediately, all temple patrons and workers are asked to wear face masks at all times while in the temple. These safety protocols are temporary, based on COVID-19 conditions, and will be rescinded as soon as circumstances permit.

    Our urging Church members to be vaccinated and to protect themselves and others from the spread of disease has precedent. Prior First Presidencies shared similar messages in 1900 about smallpox and in 1957 regarding polio. Please do all you can to protect yourself and others so the work of the Lord on both sides of the veil can move forward.

    The First Presidency Asks Latter-day Saints Worldwide to Wear Face Masks in Temples
    First Presidency (Russell M. Nelson, Dallin H. Oaks, and Henry B. Eyring)
    https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/first-presidency-temple-masks-letter
  • Vaccines Safe and Effective

    Vaccines Safe and Effective

    The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly been a global stress test! The test has shown mixed results. Safe and effective vaccines have been developed. Medical professionals, teachers, caregivers, and others have sacrifices heroically–and continue to do so.

    Apostle Dale G. Renlund
    October 2021 General Conference
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2021/10/43renlund?lang=eng

  • Do Latter-day Saints believe that they will “get their own planet”?

    Do Latter-day Saints believe that they will “get their own planet”?

    Do Latter-day Saints believe that they will “get their own planet”?

    No. This idea is not taught in Latter-day Saint scripture, nor is it a doctrine of the Church. This misunderstanding stems from speculative comments unreflective of scriptural doctrine. Latter-day Saints believe that we are all sons and daughters of God and that all of us have the potential to grow during and after this life to become like our Heavenly Father (see Romans 8:16-17). The Church does not and has never purported to fully understand the specifics of Christ’s statement that “in my Father’s house are many mansions” (John 14:2).

    Frequently Asked Questions, Question 12: https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/frequently-asked-questions & https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2010/10/commonly-asked-questions?lang=eng

    To live in the highest part of the celestial kingdom is called exaltation* or eternal life. To be able to live in this part of the celestial kingdom, people must have been married in the temple and must have kept the sacred promises they made in the temple. They will receive everything our Father in Heaven has and will become like Him. They will even be able to have spirit children and make new worlds for them to live on, and do all the things our Father in Heaven has done

    Gospel Fundamentals, Chapter 36 “Eternal Life”, page 201: (see pdf version) https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/bc/content/shared/content/english/pdf/language-materials/31129_eng.pdf
    Gospel Fundamentals, Chapter 36 “Eternal Life”, page 201.

  • Our Own Planets

    Our Own Planets

    Do Latter-day Saints believe that they will “get their own planet”?

    No. This idea is not taught in Latter-day Saint scripture, nor is it a doctrine of the Church. This misunderstanding stems from speculative comments unreflective of scriptural doctrine. Latter-day Saints believe that we are all sons and daughters of God and that all of us have the potential to grow during and after this life to become like our Heavenly Father (see Romans 8:16-17). The Church does not and has never purported to fully understand the specifics of Christ’s statement that “in my Father’s house are many mansions” (John 14:2).

    Frequently Asked Questions, Question 12: https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/frequently-asked-questions & https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2010/10/commonly-asked-questions?lang=eng

    While against the backdrop of infinite creation we may appear to be nothing, we have a spark of eternal fire burning within our breast. We have the incomprehensible promise of exaltation—worlds without end—within our grasp. And it is God’s great desire to help us reach it.

    Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, October 2011 General Conference talk “You Matter to Him” https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2011/10/you-matter-to-him?lang=eng

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  • Worldwide Flood

    Worldwide Flood

    Excerpt from ‘The Flood and the Tower of Babel’ published in the January 1998 Ensign:1

    There is a third group of people—those who accept the literal message of the Bible regarding Noah, the ark, and the Deluge. Latter-day Saints belong to this group. In spite of the world’s arguments against the historicity of the Flood, and despite the supposed lack of geologic evidence, we Latter-day Saints believe that Noah was an actual man, a prophet of God, who preached repentance and raised a voice of warning, built an ark, gathered his family and a host of animals onto the ark, and floated safely away as waters covered the entire earth. We are assured that these events actually occurred by the multiple testimonies of God’s prophets.

    References

    References
    1 LDS Ensign, ‘The Flood and the Tower of Babel’ (January, 1998) – https://www.lds.org/ensign/1998/01/the-flood-and-the-tower-of-babel?lang=eng