by Terrie Lynn Bittner | May 19, 2009 | Mormon Scriptures
Recently, we’ve been studying how the Mormons are teaching their teenagers to live a virtuous life. The girls-and in some areas, the boys-work to achieve goals in a number of areas known as values. The newest value is virtue. As part of completing the Virtue...
by Laurie W | Aug 11, 2008 | Mormon Scriptures
116 Pages of The Book of Mormon Lost Back when Joseph Smith, the man who restored Christ’s Church, first started translating the Book of Mormon, his good friend, Martin Harris, began nudging him to take the first 116 pages to show his wife and a few close...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Jul 30, 2008 | Mormon Scriptures
If you’ve been reading the Book of Mormon along with me, you’ve reached the end of the Book of Jacob. You may have been startled by the last word in the chapter. And I, Jacob, saw that I must soon go down to my grave; wherefore, I said unto my son Enos: Take these...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Jul 5, 2008 | Mormon Scriptures
Recently, a push poll informed people that the church considered the Book of Mormon to be more important than the Bible. Is this true? The belief stems from one of the Thirteen Articles of Faith. These are thirteen statements of belief written by Joseph Smith to...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Jul 5, 2008 | Mormon Scriptures
Nephi was the second prophet of the Book of Mormon. He foresaw in visions that the time would come when his people would disappear from the earth through their own wickedness. He also knew the record he started, which would come to be known as the Book of Mormon,...