Witch Trials & Modernist History Historian David Barton explained: Modernism is the practice of analyzing historical incidents and persons as if they lived now rather than in the past. Modernism separates history from its context and setting – a practice that regularly produces flawed conclusions. An illustration of Modernism is the manner in which today’s […]
LDS Temples The all seeing eye was defined as “the all searching eye of the Great Jehovah” by President Brigham Young and Elder Orson Hyde. This symbol is believed to represent the omniscience of God and His ability to perceive all things. The Heavenly eye can be found depicted in many LDS structures including the […]
Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote: “Gog and Magog are the prophetic names given in the scriptures to that combination of nations which will fight against the purposes of the Lord on two separate and future occasions: At the time of and incident to the second coming of the Lord and the ushering in of the millennial […]
The Book of Mormon is the most accurate work on government that we have. It is wonderful to study the words of the Constitution. It is great to read the words of the Founding Fathers as well as John Locke, Blackstone, Montesquieu and others. But if we want to truly understand the very heart of […]
England Alfred the Great During his reign from 871 to 899 the Anglo-Saxon king Alfred the Great declared: Be ye kind to the stranger within thy gates, for ye [English people] were strangers in the land of the Egyptians. Adam de Houghton in speech before the British Parliament (1377) …you may embrace your noble King … there is […]
Fu Xi and Nuwa are considered, in Chinese history, as the founders and first rulers of China. They are depicted on tapestries, stone and veils found in Chinese tombs. Fu Xi is credited with bringing moral standards to China. In the beginning there was as yet no moral or social order. Men knew their mothers […]