by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Apr 18, 2011 | Basic Beliefs of Mormons, Finding Truth, Mormon Principles, Practices & Precepts
Many of the reviews of the Broadway’s The Book of Mormon Musical claim it is only an attack on blind faith. The suggestion is, then, that the missionaries in the musical were operating on blind faith and that perhaps the converts were as well. The musical features two...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Oct 7, 2010 | Basic Beliefs of Mormons
In this series of articles, we are studying the principles taught in a talk by Ezra Taft Benson. At the time the talk was given to students at Brigham Young University, he was an apostle, one of twelve men who form a governing body of the church. They lead with the...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Oct 6, 2010 | Basic Beliefs of Mormons, Finding Truth, Mormon Principles, Practices & Precepts
In June of 1981, Ezra Taft Benson, who was then a Mormon apostle, gave an often-quoted talk called Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet. It outlined what Mormons and non-Mormons need to understand about Mormonism and what it means to follow a prophet. In...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Sep 2, 2010 | Basic Beliefs of Mormons, Mormon Principles, Practices & Precepts
Mormons are a covenant-making people. When they are baptized, they covenant that they are willing to take on the name of Jesus Christ and to keep the commandments. In the temple, as adults, they make additional covenants with God, promising to keep the commandments at...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Aug 28, 2010 | Basic Beliefs of Mormons, Finding Truth
In the previous post, we learned that a missionary named Alma, whose story is found in the Book of Mormon, had gone to preach to an apostate group called the Zoramites. He found the wealthy among them engaged in an arrogant, self-centered form of religion, in which...
