chapter vi – Page 2 – Home | The Science of Theology

Doctrinal Expositions

By the Light of Truth

13 Apr 20185 Nov 2019

The Spirit is Willing, but the Flesh is Weak It has been said that we are not human bodies that have spiritual experiences, but spirits that are experiencing human bodies.…

Replies to Thomas

Time: All is as One Day with God

21 Jul 20165 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, Life: what a waste of time! I find it hard to believe that God would waste time having me and the other billions of humans bumbling about stubbing…

Doctrinal Expositions

And the Gods Watched

8 Apr 201620 Jan 2022

Introduction The intention of this document is to provide, scripturally, a sound explanation of the various planets we observe in our solar system and what clues they may provide toward…

Replies to Thomas

Mother Earth: Eternal, Geographical Inheritance

27 Oct 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, I can't help but wonder if my insistence on trying to solve my mental dilemmas with God's nature is just a by-product of having been raised to believe in…

Replies to Thomas

God, His Counsel, and His Councils

20 Oct 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, The story of the blind man and his haunting adversary was very interesting to me. Because of my reluctance to share my story (frankly, most people would say…

Replies to Thomas

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…

Replies to Thomas

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…

Replies to Thomas

A House Better Left Desolate

23 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, The missionaries who have visited shared an analogy which I had no trouble accepting, and which I thought was actually pretty accurate all things considered. They said: "Imagine…

Replies to Thomas

Trailing Clouds of Glory Do We Come

22 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, The missionaries have explained that in the preexistence we chose to come here so that we could learn and choose to become more like God. I think I understand…

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.