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- ...ness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ({{b||Romans|6|1-2,6, ...ent for ever and ever. James 1:17 says, 'Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no v27 KB (4,758 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ===Throughout history, women as well as men have developed the gift of prophecy as told and foretold by the scriptures=== ...this gift as told and foretold by the scriptures. However, the spiritual gift of prophecy is different from the calling the First Presidency and the Quor6 KB (1,020 words) - 15:37, 13 April 2024
- ...dvocated what he called a 'community of property and of wives,' in a more 'spiritual generation.' Mormons avoided the idiom but not the practice." "…Mormon c #Van Wagoner and Walker, "Joseph Smith: 'The Gift of Seeing,' ''Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought'' 15 (Summer 1982): 2:558 KB (8,618 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...Holy Ghost, in the name of Jesus Christ, on all subjects pertaining to our spiritual welfare; if it so be that we keep his commandments, so as to render ourselv ...sins as well as in the doctrine of repentance; and in the doctrine of the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, as well as baptism for the rem65 KB (11,746 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...im: 87, 517n26 - "Smith's long association with occultism also helped draw spiritual 'seekers' into Mormonism" ...to claim: 95, 522n74 (HB) - Did Martin Harris claim that "all temporal and spiritual power would be given over to The Prophet Joseph Smith"?16 KB (2,387 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...the praise was all secular—not spiritual.<ref>"Bennett never aspired to spiritual leadership. He preached politics and urban improvements, not theology." - ...icipation whatever, either directly or indirectly, in word or deed, in the SPIRITUAL WIFE DOCTRINE, private intercourse with females in general; and if you do n166 KB (26,695 words) - 19:23, 20 May 2024
- ...}). The presentation of a purported historical document is not a spiritual gift, either in the D&C, or in the Bible (see {{b|1|Corinthians|12|1-11}}). ...some degree and to the faithful saints in particular is given the spirit, gift, and power of discernment. This ability is conferred upon people generally3 KB (571 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...of the paragraph. They remove Lucy's report that Joseph spoke primarily of spiritual tutoring and his increasing understanding of the forthcoming restoration, a ...ed, that this nation may read it." Do you not see, by Joseph receiving the gift that was conferred upon him, you and I have that record?7 KB (1,253 words) - 14:13, 13 April 2024
- ...-133, n71 - the LDS church claims exclusive receipt of the Holy Ghost as a gift {{:Question: Do other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness?}}22 KB (3,320 words) - 14:11, 13 April 2024
- ...It is claimed that David Whitmer indicated that the visit of the angel was spiritual rather than real {{:Source:Revelations in Context on history.lds.org:Oliver Cowdery's Gift:Cowdery was among those who believed in and used a divining rod}}33 KB (5,205 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- {{:Source:Anderson:By the Gift and Power of God:Ensign:September 1977:Joseph Smith may have used a bible d {{:Question: Did Joseph attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates using the "gift and power of God?"}}53 KB (8,529 words) - 14:18, 13 April 2024
- ...e to claim: 108 - Martin Harris said that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eyes" ...e to claim: 108 - Martin Harris said that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eyes"==33 KB (5,227 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ===history.lds.org ''Revelations in Context'' "Oliver Cowdery's Gift"=== ...If Oliver desired, the revelation went on to say, the Lord would add the gift of translation to the revelatory gifts Oliver already possessed (D&C 8:8-1171 KB (10,879 words) - 20:12, 20 May 2024
- Eternal life is a gift from God. He promises us this gift if we enter into and keep a covenant with Christ. This covenant is made th Quite simply, there is no "objective" test for a spiritual reality that will convince another person. A conservative Protestant's rea24 KB (4,127 words) - 15:40, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../2|Spiritual Communication]] ...nding work for years to come. It contains articles written on baptism, the Gift of the Holy Ghost, the necessity of gathering together, and all the leading45 KB (8,661 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...he Bible, and other revelations of God, are true; that they know it by the gift and power of God; that they have conversed with angels, have had the power ...acles. In reality there can be no miracle, only to the ignorant. There are spiritual agents, invisible to the natural eye, not only in us, but in the elements,24 KB (4,534 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- I desire your prayers, that my body may be strengthened, and also for the Gift of the Holy Spirit, without which no man can edify his fellow man. ...sectarians would—"You are entirely mistaken, my kingdom will always be a spiritual kingdom; and you will be very much disappointed if you look for anything el45 KB (8,398 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...maelites, or of whatever nation, have a right to remission of sins and the Gift of the Holy Spirit, through their ministry, on conditions of faith, repenta ...of salvation to build up, govern, organize, and administer in temporal and spiritual salvation to the ends of the earth, are now restored, and held by the chose25 KB (4,540 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...ut nevertheless, I feel it my duty to impart my testimony, and exercise my gift among my brethren, according to my calling; I therefore shall address you f ...r, in the name of Jesus, or whereby they are filled with the spirit of any gift, renewed in their utterance, strengthened in their powers of intellect, so42 KB (7,756 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...also temporal beings, and have to do with temporal things, as well as with spiritual or eternal things. Taking this view of the subject, it is of very little im ...r and fountain of their existence, and the giver of every good and perfect gift, yielding submission to the powers of the adversary in a state of darkness38 KB (7,058 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024