The Peaceable Followers of Christ Entering into Rest – Several Ideas in Code If we read Moroni 7.3 looking for clues, we can start to see some things coming together. When we look at Matthew 5.48, we see that the Savior is telling his followers that if they hearken untoContinue Reading

Moroni chapter 8 is Mormon’s epistle to his son Moroni on the salvation of little children. For more on this doctrine, see Robert L. Millet,s paper entitled Alive in Christ: The Salvations of Little Children.”1 Pelagius (354-418 AD) was a Christian thinker who opposed Augustine in the 5th-century. Most ofContinue Reading

Διὰ τοῦτο ὥσπερ δι᾽ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου ἡ ἁμαρτία εἰς τὸν κόσμον εἰσῆλθεν καὶ διὰ τῆς ἁμαρτίας ὁ θάνατος καὶ οὕτως εἰς πάντας ἀνθρώπους ὁ θάνατος  διῆλθεν ἐφ᾽ ᾧ πάντες ἥμαρτον (Romans 5.12). KJV: Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. Augustine, a man many consider to be the father of Christian theology,1 and the mastermind behind the ideaContinue Reading

According to Christ’s original doctrine as restored through Joseph Smith, the Fall made both possible and necessary the Savior’s atoning for our sins. Human nature is neither inherently evil nor inherently good. We become evil or good based on interaction between the Lord’s influence and the choices we make-choices unavailableContinue Reading

Bruce R. McConkie What is original sin? This is the false doctrine that the sin of Adam passes upon all men and that, therefore, all men-infants included-must be baptized to be saved. It is, however, a fundamental principle of true religion “that men will be punished for their own sins,Continue Reading