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A Double-Edged Sword

31 Jul 202110 Jan 2022

The life of our Lord Jesus Christ is often cited as the enabling element in divine mercy; if he did not live a blameless life devoid of sin that was…

Poetry

The Living Christ: A Poem

1 May 201713 Dec 2019

His life surpassed all—His atoned; By Sacrifice our souls are owned; Mid mortals—as He too was tried— None other’s strength mankind shall bide. Moses wrote of Godly power; John beheld…

Poetry

How Many Times, Dear Brother?

18 Dec 20165 Nov 2019

How many times, dear brother? Have I heard you utter the plea: “If I didn’t have the Atonement, “I don’t know where I’d be.” “Maybe in a half-way house,” You’d…

Poetry

Mind as a Garden, Thoughts as the Rain

30 Jul 20165 Nov 2019

THY mind, O man, is as a garden; thy thoughts are as the rain, which nourish seedlings spread throughout, for weed or flower's reign. It is not thou who art the…

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The Postman

17 Nov 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, I haven't been able to devote as much time as I'd like towards reinterpreting my world view, as you've suggested. I mean, I find it hard to be…

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One Eternal Non-Euclidean Round

26 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, So God has been around as long as we have? I think I see what you mean. Might it be analogized like so: God knows he is ahead…

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Is There No Other Way?

24 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, In between this last visit and the one, the missionaries stopped by while I was upstairs and gave my boy (who was in fact Batman at the time and as…

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The Devil Told the Truth

16 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, "...The original Hebrew word for ‘created,’ as found in [Genesis 1:1], does not actually mean 'to make' as we often assume it does. It means 'to organize.'" Very interesting,…

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Accepting Christ and Glory, by Degrees

12 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, That's the sort of perspective that makes more sense to me. However, it does bring up some interesting possibilities. If a child being raised to believe something is…

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Heaven or Hell?

9 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, Mormon doctrine teaches that God manipulated pre-existing matter? Is that accurate? So . . . he "built" then, right? He didn't create. And if THAT'S accurate then I…

The Key to the Science of Theology is a book written by the Apostle Parley P. Pratt, published in 1855, two years before his martyrdom. The author of this site, Joseph, has studied the Gospel of Jesus Christ as restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. in great depth for over a decade. It is his conviction that the writing of Parley P. Pratt most accurately conveys in succinct form what Joseph Smith Jr. had been piecing together all his life. This blog is an ode to that triumphant work and the glorious future it prophetically envisions.