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"Change your thinking... and participate in the purification ceremony [baptism] that is done in the name of Creator Sets Free (Jesus), the Chosen One, representing him and initiating you into…

Joseph Taught Rebaptism

27 Sep 202131 May 2023

An early practice of the LDS was that of rebaptism, or the baptism of person who had already been baptized (and this for themselves, not proxy for the dead). Brigham…

Brother Joseph: Seeing vs. Entering the Kingdom

26 Sep 202131 May 2023

Elder Daniel Tyler, who now resides at Beaver, Beaver County, Utah, has furnished us with a number of items concerning the Prophet Joseph—not only incidents in his life, but some…

Doctrinal Expositions

The Tongue of Angels: The Necessity of the Holy Ghost in the Fulness of the Gospel

2 May 20185 Nov 2019

The introduction to the Book of Mormon gives the following interesting detail as to its contents: “The Book of Mormon…is a record of God’s dealings…and contains the fulness of the…

Replies to Thomas

Free Agency: Raise the Hand and Bow the Knee

18 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, Thank you for that in-depth breakdown of Hebrew and Genesis 1:1. That's the kind of stuff literally no one knows or would ever feel comfortable talking about. But…

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.