Jonah

Marriage and singleness are both gifts from God.

Would you consider mankind separated from God by the Fall as the fourth way?

I would say no, as to organized churches. I view the church as the body of Christ.

Would someone clarify this section. D&C 10:55 "Therefore, whosoever belongeth to my church need not fear, for such shall inherit the kingdom of heaven". I found this definition of the kingdom of God / kingdom of Heaven. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/gs/kingdom-of-god-or-kingdom-of-heaven?lang=eng The kingdom of God on earth is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (D&C 65). The purpose of the Church is to prepare its members to live forever in the celestial kingdom or kingdom of heaven. However, the scriptures sometimes call the Church the kingdom of heaven, meaning that the Church is the kingdom of heaven on earth. I saw from another teaching that the earth is destined to become the everlasting residence of its inhabitants who gain the glory of the celestial kingdom. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/doctrines-of-the-gospel-student-manual/37-millennium-and-glorification-of-the-earth?lang=eng Does this mean those in the telestial and terrestrial kingdom will be not viewed as members of Christ's church because their future home is not earth?

Did he say this because his family believed they were immune to catching and possibly dying from a dangerous virus? Or was there another reason why he felt their faith in Heavenly Father would have decreased?

Do you recall if anything was said in the fireside about those who remained on the Titanic so that they could save others by enabling them to reach and fill those lifeboats?

Prayer and praise.

I was wondering if physiological sexual identity is part of an eternal intelligence or if this came from heavenly parentage before a mortal life?

Our sexual identity too?

No particular reason. There was another case in which Gabriel visited Mary.

D&C 2 refers to Moroni as an angel and Elijah as a prophet. Is there a difference between an angel and a prophet?

From 1 Samuel 15. I think He spoke from heaven. I don't see anything that would indicate His appearing.

I don't hear an audible voice but feel promptings of the Spirit. From reading the account of Nephi, it sounds like he heard a voice and responded with his voice (unless he was talking to himself).

Did the Holy Spirit speak from heaven or did he appear to Nephi to inform him to kill Laban?

I am not aware of that declaration but I believe those who disagree with the Catholic religion should not be ostracized.

I was born in a Catholic family and remained such. I know that the Catholic Church teaches it is the only true church, but I believe the Body of Christ includes members of various Christian faiths - who worship the true God. I don't hold this view of JWs since they teach Jesus is Michael the Archangel. As for other faiths (Islam, Buddhism, etc), I also study them to learn their beliefs. They hold critical views of why I believe Jesus is God but that is understandable because they don't believe he is the way, the truth, and the life or the only way to salvation.

I think he may have started with good intentions but he ended with poor annotations.

I know. A friend of mine gave me a book by Jack Chick called "Smokescreens" detailing some more recent history.

With hesitant and delicate fashion... For me it was difficult to accept the teaching of Mary's perpetual virginity and her assumption into heaven.

Is a full heir the same thing as a joint-heir as talked about in https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/tg/joint-heir?lang=eng ?

Thanks JohnsonJones, I did not quote it as a matter of it being right or wrong. Latter-day Saints at the conference had to make up their own mind as to whether they would accept what he was saying was true or not.

Is there a problem with quoting what a former Apostle taught in either a General Conference or a canonical record?

Hi Jane, Yes, I am Catholic. I believe that everything the Pope says is true or false, but since he is our leader, I accept everything he says as the truth, no matter the environment. That is, it doesn't matter to me if he says it as his opinion, a teaching, or something more official like Ex Cathedra). As for lower-level-in- hierarchy priests or cardinals, the principle is the same - it is either true or false. If their teaching is false, then I am either purposely or unintentionally being mislead.

Thanks. I read the FairMormon article. It said: Answer: We do not know anything about Jesus Christ being married. The Church has no authoritative declaration on the subject. In an older General Conference sermon, Jesus was said to have been married at Cana and he had several wives. https://scriptures.byu.edu/jod/pdf/JoD02/JoD02.pdf THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD ON THE UNITED STATES—THE SAINTS AND THE WORLD. A SERMON BY PRESIDENT ORSON HYDE, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, MARCH 18, 1855. I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children. http://www.eldenwatson.net/1850s.htm#15 The paragraph starts with "Let us see what Abraham's works were. Abraham obtained promises" The collateral teaching seems to be Heavenly Father has multiple wives too.

One of his statements was "Each convert becomes one of God’s covenant children, whether by birth or by adoption". How does a convert become a covenant child by birth?