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Doctrinal Expositions

No Man “Holds” the Priesthood: Why Changing Ordinances Changes Priesthood

So much of the precepts of men that mingle with scripture are the result of imprecise language. This regrettable human limitation was pointedly lamented by Joseph Smith: “Oh Lord God…

Doctrinal Expositions

Priesthood Keys Made Simple

"A man never has half so much fuss to unlock a door, if he has a key, as though he had not and had to cut it open with his…

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…

Doctrinal Expositions

Progression & Probations

28 Feb 202224 Feb 2025

Dedicated to CS On a warm summer day in 1888, a 32-year-old Orson F. Whitney sat down in Heber, Utah, to enjoy the company of the then-Apostle, Lorenzo Snow. Snow…

A Complete Separation

14 Sep 202129 May 2023

The coming divide will surely be faith-based, but it will not sect-based. But that there will be a divide the scriptures made no qualms: "For the time speedily cometh that…

Priesthood and the State

11 Sep 202129 May 2023

It might seem a strange thing to have a person full of the knowledge of God who knowingly exposes himself to false sacraments and ordinances devoid of any authority while…

Priesthood and the Kingdom

10 Sep 202129 May 2023

In 1832 a vision of the Kingdom of God burst upon the earth through the prophet Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon. In it, we learn that heaven has three grand…

Priesthood and Good Works

9 Sep 202127 May 2023

In the New Testament an account reaches us of a man who could cast out devils in the name of Christ but who knew not Christ personally: "John said to…

Priesthood and Authority

8 Sep 202127 May 2023

Jesus told Peter: "I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou…

United We Stand, Divided We Fall

27 Aug 20215 Mar 2022

Noah Webster defined "sedition" in his 1820 publication to mean "A factious commotion of the people, a tumultuous assembly of men rising in opposition to law or the administration of…

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.