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And if you don't understand how the miracle happened, inquire and investigate, study and ponder, and then ask how it happened and you are more likely to receive an understanding than if you did not study and ponder and ask.

I think there can still be value in inquiry and investigation. We are more likely to learn something by investigating and inquiring than if we dont. Ask and ye shall receive......

Don't tell anyone else this, but I actually brought my daughter a fountain pen, complete with ink bottle, for Christmas. I actually picked it up myself, without using gloves or any protective measures. I can't remember the brand, but it started with L and I think it was a brand that you and Annatess occasionally mentioned.

Here is what the Bible Dictionary says about angels Angels These are messengers of the Lord and are spoken of in the epistle to the Hebrews as “ministering spirits” (Heb. 1:14). We learn from latter-day revelation that there are two classes of heavenly beings who minister for the Lord: those who are spirits and those who have bodies of flesh and bone. Spirits are those beings who either have not yet obtained a body of flesh and bone (unembodied) or who have once had a mortal body and have died and are awaiting the Resurrection (disembodied). Ordinarily the word angel means those ministering persons who have a body of flesh and bone, being either resurrected from the dead (reembodied), or else translated, as were Enoch, Elijah, etc. (D&C 129). There are many references to the work of angels in the Old Testament. In some passages the “angel of the Lord” speaks as the voice of God Himself (Gen. 22:11–12). The word angel is also sometimes used to designate a human messenger, as in JST Gen. 19:15 (Appendix), and may have some application also in Matt. 13:39–42.

It would be a real delight to have Zil back.

Six times on Netflix last night. I saw it with my own eyes.

They shoot at people who they think might be bad or who they think might do something bad. They shoot at people who scare them or who are behaving in a scary manner. They shoot at people with mental illness. Not all of them are bad people.

I think this might be a feasible place for guys who are known to be bad. The problem is, they are not the only people who cops shoot at.

One of the things that has puzzled me about covid is God's response to the pleas of His prophets and apostles and two world-wide fasts for relief from covid. I'm guessing that there are many who feel that that relief hasn't been as quick or as great or as widespread as was hoped for.

And I'm speculating that mine is the personality that all others will come to resemble

I agree, but these were not the ones that were sent to Earth with a mission. There may have been some non-male angels participating in the choir referred to in Luke 2:13 but we aren't specifically told this. That's why I included the phrase "whose gender is mentioned" in the OP.

I second this comment by @mikbone I foresee the day, not far off in the future, when @Carborendum's Come Follow Me podcasts will exceed the popularity of the current offerings. (Slightly tongue in cheek, but not too much)

Last year the youth in our ward raised money for their temple trip by being awarded the clean up contract for the annual agricultural show. It was one of those things where somebody knew somebody who was responsible for offering the contract.

I have a vague memory of people like my father in law who, as a member of the Philippines military, served under American command in the Korean and Vietnamese wars and in exchange was offered some citizenship rights usually reserved for Americans. I don't recall if it was full or partial citizenship rights.

@Traveler I was thinking about your theory today in Sunday School as we discussed Matthew 2. Your theory would describe the Nephite experience of a day and a night without any darkness but it might not fit so well with the travelling nature of this star. In Matthew 2:2 the star was to the east of the wise men who themselves were east of where Mary and Joseph are. By verse 10 the star was over the place of Christ's birth. Super novas don't normally move around that much.

I'm astonished at some of the things I imagine you to have said, Nevertheless, I accept your apology

Thou ahypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. It seems to me that a reasonable interpretation of this scripture is that we should first try to make sure that nothing is in our own eye before we try to help someone remove what is in their eye. Should we really delay helping someone else overcome a fault or sin until we ourselves are free of fault or sin?

Are you saying that if you are high you are down?

I think that speculation is an important part of one method of gaining increased knowledge and understanding. Speculation is the process of forming ideas and those ideas can then be examined and discussed and rejected, modified or added to.

It might or might not be the case that angels sent from heaven are given Priesthood assignments. Or maybe sometimes the directions/instructions they are given are Priesthood assignments and sometimes those directions/instructions might not be Priesthood assignments. But if it is the case that all the angels that come here are both on a Priesthood assignment, and are male, would that then make some conclusions/guesses about the nature of Priesthood and the manner in which it is or is not held by women less likely and other conclusions/guesses more likely? Could an answer to a question about the gender of angels form the beginning of a conclusion about the relationship between women and the Priesthood in the life beyond this world?

Jeremiah 36: 21 - 32 and Alma 14: 8 and Alma 16:3 contains some helpful advice on how not to dispose of scriptures and what could happen if we dispose of them improperly - so please be careful.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 was mentioned in General Conference on the following occasions: You are right, 12 times in the last 193 years is not a lot. However, I draw your attention to the timeframe - the earliest date in the list is 1875, and the same source shows that both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young referenced 1 Thessalonians 4:16, taking it back at least another 30 years. So it is not a new doctrine, and as indicated by the most recent entry of 2015, when Elder Neal L Anderson referenced this verse, it is stil being talked about today. And you can't get any more public than General Conference, which is available in its entireity to anyone with an internet connection so it is in no way a secret doctrine. I could tell you how many times each of the other verses in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 have been referenced in General Conference, rather than just verse 16, but I think this is sufficient to establish the point that scriptures about the rapture do get mentioned from time to time in a very public setting.

What do you think is/are the most likely explanation(s) for why every single angel that has been send to Earth and whose gender is mentioned has been male?

I don't have any issues with the Lord's right to set the terms of the covenant, I'm just curious about why He is so specific and precise about the actions by which we enter into the covenant, and so specific about the words used to bless the emblems by which we remember the covenant, but so much less specific about the actual emblems of which we partake.

For me it would depend on how well they are annotated. If there are lots of personal annotations and underlinings I would keep them as a rememberance of my sister and her thoughts about the scriptures. If there were few or no annotations I would do as @Backroadssuggests.