Ponder the Path

 This blog post is a political commentary on the times in which we live from the perspective of a Latter-day Saint. Clearly there is a monumental political struggle raging in our nation and conditions that threaten the stability of the world. There are an abundance of explanations for what brought us to this precipice and there are many theories of wide spread conspiracy. Theories of conspiracy abound on the left and right of the political spectrum, each side charging the other with evil intent to overthrow our society. It becomes difficult to discern truth and make correct judgments about the explosive charges being leveled back and forth. For the left the conspiracy is that President Trump is working with the Russians to subvert democracy in America. On the right, President Trump is secretly waging a righteous war against a secret and subversive deep state seeking to tear down the American Constitutional system and breaking up a hidden cabal of Satanic worshipers within the upper...

At the heart of the Restoration is an American Doctrine that is a universal prop to the plan of God and the agency of man. The keystone of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in this final dispensation is the Book of Mormon and the precepts of that book which will draw all to Christ if they embrace it's teachings and abide by it's precepts. The book is a unique book of scripture that records the spiritual teachings of a remnant of Israel removed by God from the nation of Israel before the destruction of Jerusalem six hundred years before Christ. Brought and preserved by God, a free and righteous branch, to what we call America but what they called "the land of promise." The book is a historical bridge between the Old and New Testaments, it's story ending some four hundred years after Christ. The Book expounds upon the sacred covenant God has made with his people as a covenant of both liberation and salvation. Intertwined with their Christ centered wo...