The Book of Jared

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The Book of Abraham: Taking it for what it is...

I have had some interesting thoughts of late about the Book of Abraham. I have been reading all the possible sources for the book, and whether it was translated from the fragments we have in Salt Lake City, and so on. If you are interested in reading the things that brought on this post, go to …

Written by Jared on Friday December 16, 2022.


Time to get a grip...

Christopher Hodapp, in his book "Freemasons for Dummies" [amazon.com], identifies the masonic grips as "A special identifying handshake used by Masons to identify each other, different for each degree." These handshakes were used, according to tradition, by ancient stonemason guilds to identify mem…

Written by Jared on Friday December 16, 2022.


Come all ye sons of God...

I have to preface this by saying that I am a big part of the problem here. I come across as really outgoing, but there are deep seeded reasons that I don't really connect with members of my own gender, and I have even more difficulty because my life has not been a typical "Utah Mormon" life. That…

Written by Jared on Friday December 16, 2022.


I learned a valuable lesson today...

I walked up to the rental counter, pushed my way through the long queue to get to a woman holding a clipboard, wearing a rental car company name tag that read "Becky". "Is there a manager on duty this morning?" I asked a little louder than I should have. "There are four on this morning, and if you…

Written by Jared on Friday December 16, 2022.


Stand in holy places, and be not moved.

6 And thus, with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven, and the fierce and vivid lightning also, shall the inhabitants of the earth be made to feel the wrath, and indignation, and chastening hand…

Written by Jared on Friday December 16, 2022.


Small and simple things...

Visit any of the anti-mormon sites and one of the complaints you might find is that barley is mentioned in connection with Book of Mormon times and lands. FairMormon has addressed most areas of this issue, showing that not only was barley present in the new world before the Spanish arrived, but tha…

Written by Jared on Friday December 16, 2022.