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Seeing Through a Glass Darkly

24 Sep 20211 Mar 2022

Paul described the spiritual powers of mortals as being extremely limited: "Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole…

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Knowing God

9 Aug 202121 Feb 2022

John 17:3 King James Bible: And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Greek original: αὕτη δέ…

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The Invisible War

30 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph. So I had kind of an intense meeting with my missionary friends a few hours ago. I've been very deep in thought since they left. I felt like…

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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…

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Wild Beasts That Are Past Feeling

15 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, "The murder discussion will be a lengthy one to pursue at the moment. But suffice it to say—again, for the moment—that our conscience is God-given. The first time you do…

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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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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…

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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…

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Creation and Consequence

8 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, I want to clarify that I didn't mean to say in my last missive that God is or isn't doing something he should or shouldn't be doing. I'm talking about our…

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.