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What Version of the Bible Should I Use?

Dear Joseph, I need help deciding which version of the Bible I should use in some courses I'm taking. I’ve listed the options available to me per the curriculum below:…

Doctrinal Expositions

Signs of the Times: Where Are We in Revelation?

21 Sep 202221 Sep 2022

The future has been a subject of great interest for professed holy men for as long as the earth has endured. However, our knowledge that we live in the last…

A Dialogue Between Joseph Smith and the Devil

What follows is an adaption of a work by Parley P. Pratt entitled, A Dialogue Between Joseph Smith and the Devil. The original was published on January 1st of 1844…

I Read More Than Was Written

24 Jul 20217 Jan 2022

I remember one of my first experiences with revelation while reading the word of God. I was maybe 16 years-old at the time, and I was reading the farewell of…

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Classic Truth: The Revelation of John Vs. Daniel

26 Apr 20193 Mar 2022

Sermon delivered by Joseph Smith the Prophet at the General Conference of the Church at Nauvoo, Ill. on Saturday April 8, 1843: The subject I intend to speak upon this…

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…

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Five-hundred Miles Per Hour at Thirty-thousand Feet

11 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, I want to return to the subject of information missing from scripture. Even including The Book of Mormon, there's still a big chunk of really important stuff missing, confused,…

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Of Mice and Men

10 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, Back in '04 I received some study aids from a proselyting couple every week for a few months. I don't know what church they were from, but the aids…

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.