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- ...ns arise, as they always do, will they leave again? In matters of faith, a spiritual witness is essential if one is to avoid being “tossed to and fro, and car ...tain this record,...And we also know that they have been translated by the gift and power of God, for his voice hath declared it unto us; wherefore we know13 KB (2,179 words) - 20:55, 20 May 2024
- ...ll, said Joseph Jr. told him that the "gift in seeing with a stone" was "a gift from God" but that " 'peeping' was all d—d nonsense"; he had been dec ...guardian" role (and he certainly did guard something of both material and spiritual value—the gold plates) but this seems to have been a secondary conclu44 KB (7,251 words) - 23:06, 19 May 2024
- ...s and prosperity come from God’s hand—that they aren’t a right but a gift of grace. The proper response is gratitude and living holy lives in keeping ...ce'' in Latter-day Saint scripture. This intelligence is a self-conscious, spiritual, material entity ({{s||Doctrine & Covenants|131|7-8}}) that has apparently130 KB (21,472 words) - 23:10, 26 May 2024
- ...hat God Almighty has revealed it to him, that she should be his (Joseph's) Spiritual wife; for it was right anciently,and God will tolerate it again: but we mus ...nst flesh, blood, nor bones; but against principalities and power, against spiritual wickedness in high places and therefore we will not use carnal weapons save72 KB (12,886 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...ze what they have been missing, repent, and make great contribution to the spiritual life of their community. The reason I believe this can take place is that, ...s very much like the feeling of loving someone who is physically ill. The spiritual peril devout Church members perceive their "wayward" family members to be i19 KB (3,151 words) - 18:12, 30 April 2024
- ...h is temporal, and that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual.' He made the tadpole and the ape, the lion and the elephant; but he did no Adam's fall brought temporal (natural) and spiritual death into the world. The temporal or natural death means that body and spi27 KB (4,776 words) - 15:22, 26 May 2024
- #Most witnesses testified that Joseph did possess a gift of sight * Spiritual gifts were reinterpreted as manifestations of the [[Joseph_Smith_and_the_oc43 KB (7,105 words) - 17:12, 20 May 2024
- ...ation-the-gift-the-test-and-the-promise?lang=eng "Personal Revelation: The Gift, the Test, and the Promise,"] ''Ensign'' 24, no. 11 (November 1994): 59&nda ...ation-the-gift-the-test-and-the-promise?lang=eng "Personal Revelation: The Gift, the Test, and the Promise,"] ''Ensign'' (November 1994).</ref>9 KB (1,563 words) - 21:34, 12 April 2024
- ..., and the Holy Ghost; the necessity of faith, repentance, baptism, and the gift of the Holy Ghost; etc.), but there were various differences among them. ...Church of Christ; (3) the gathering of lost Israel and the restoration of spiritual gifts to her; (4) the Second Coming of Christ; and (5) the resurrection and7 KB (1,068 words) - 15:37, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Can a person receive a spiritual witness about any book?== ...a testimony or when we have become aware of the proposition of receiving a spiritual witness, it is our choice to accept that testimony/proposition and to move6 KB (983 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ...faith in Christ, repentance and baptism for the remission of sins, and the gift of the holy ghost by the laying on of hands, after which I administered the ...been baptised [baptized] for the remission of sins, and have received the gift of the Holy Spirit, by the laying on of the hands of some one who had autho67 KB (11,841 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ...doing, based on His eternal laws of justice, and grows out of the lack of spiritual valiance of those concerned in their first estate. <ref>Bruce R. McConkie, ...ith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost….Race Problems-As They Affect The Church (address given61 KB (10,139 words) - 23:03, 27 May 2024
- ...nd Precious Book of Mormon doctrines#Faith.2C Repentance.2C Baptism.2C the gift of the Holy Ghost and Enduring to the End|Book of Mormon doctrines on:]] ...st in Him your pain of sins and believing in Him we receive salvation as a gift." - Dr. Phil Roberts (President, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary)</44 KB (7,529 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...hen rendering it in a second language. Joseph, however, translated "by the gift and power of God" ({{s||D&C|135|3}}) — he did not know the language o ...as the most accurate book in existence. If this book was translated by the gift and power of God we must ask the question why have there been thousands of12 KB (1,933 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...ly stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.({{b|1|Peter|2|5}}) ...th His life and power, as it were). These lively stones are built into a "spiritual house" with the "living stone" (Christ) as the cornerstone.14 KB (2,187 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ===Remember that sometime in the past you received a spiritual witness to some extent about some aspect of church doctrine=== First of all, remember that sometime in the past you received a spiritual witness to some extent about some aspect of church doctrine. Building upon5 KB (870 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
- |L12=Response to claim: "20. Since the word grace means a free gift that can't be earned, why does the Book of Mormon state "for we know that i ...aven when 1 Corinthians 15:46 says that the physical body comes before the spiritual?"13 KB (2,209 words) - 14:10, 13 April 2024
- ;Gift of the Holy Ghost: The right to have, whenever one is worthy, the companion *{{E|Gift of the Holy Ghost|2=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOR27 KB (4,268 words) - 15:00, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Why might someone not be able to see their spiritual impressions come to successful, obvious, and/or beautiful fruition?== One woman has told the author that she received a spiritual impression at one point that Joseph Smith absolutely did ''not'' practice p40 KB (6,655 words) - 16:47, 20 May 2024
- ...gs of which I have read, are things pertaining to things both temporal and spiritual: for it appears that the House of Israel, sooner or later, will be scattere In saying this we do not call in question the morality, the sincerity, or the spiritual enjoyment of individuals belonging to any religious system. On the contrary73 KB (12,947 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024