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Progression & Probations

28 Feb 202228 Feb 2022

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…

Doctrinal Expositions

Protology: Sinai and the Pre-Earth Council

21 Jan 202222 Jan 2022

The events of this transitory life can only be correctly understood with a knowledge of what transpired before this world and what will transpire after. This notion has been likened…

Jehovah and Inheritance

26 Oct 20214 Apr 2022

To this point in my series of posts about Jehovah, it has been taken for granted that the word is a proper name belonging to one individual. Certainly, if there…

Daily Devotional…

The Second Adam (is probably not Jesus)

14 Oct 20217 Jan 2022

There is a passage in the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 15 that has always been interpreted in the light of continuing a contrast between two people: Adam and Jesus.…

Who Is Like God? Michael

28 Aug 20214 Mar 2022

A being named Michael is named in the scriptures fifteen times: three in the Old Testament, two in the New Testament, and ten in the Doctrine and Covenants. In Hebrew…

Resurrection: Born in the Wind

22 Jul 20217 Jan 2022

The Native Americans call God the Great Spirit and the Bible too says "God is a Spirit" (John 4:24). Though other scriptures teach that God's spirit is tabernacled in a…

The Celestial, not the Terrestrial, Inherit the Earth?

7 Nov 20193 Mar 2022

"Also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial, and bodies telestial; but the glory of the celestial, one; and the terrestrial, another; and the telestial, another."There is one glory of the sun,…

Poetry

Of the Morning

8 Apr 20185 Nov 2019

New and rising light of Morn, Thou the bands of night hath shorn, And taking up thy path again, Shall through the bright'ning Heavens wend. "When a person dies, will…

Replies to Thomas

The Seed Must Die: Creation in His Image

18 Feb 201624 Mar 2020

Dear Joseph, I like what you've written to me about the need for faith, but I still find myself surrounded by evidences that God, as a supreme controller of all…

Poetry

The Holly and The Ivy

16 Dec 20145 Nov 2019

In olden times, a Christmas tradition was a song competition between the men and women of a given town. The contest was to see who could sing the highest praise…

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.