Jesus Christ

Where did we come from? It’s a universally human question. We do not remember our infancy and have no seemingly concrete proof of our spiritual genesis. So the question Where did we come from? is a legitimate and important one. Many religions—Christian or otherwise—have theologies about where we go from here, but few have doctrine about where we were before our mortality. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often inadvertently referred to as the Mormon Church) is a faith that does have an answer to that question, an answer that is key to our purpose and place both in this life and in the one beyond. Where Mormons find their answer Mormons find the answer to this question in a book of scripture called The Pearl of Great Price. The Pearl of Great Price is a set of scripture translated by the Prophet Joseph Smith when Joseph was translating the Bible and contains a more complete account of Moses’s writings. These scriptures contain crucial... Read the rest of this entry »

Melissa DeMoux is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (“Mormon” woman) and resides in West Vally City, Utah. Many people in the world question the existence of a God, due to their experiences with terrible acts and events which they cannot understand a loving creator permitting to happen. Such evil, however, is a necessary part of our mortality, and with a little study we can come to better understand it. While turning to the Bible is helpful, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes mistakenly called the Mormon Church) has other books of scripture, the Book of Mormon, which contains revelations that make the purpose of the existence of evil more clear. For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so . . . righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound... Read the rest of this entry »