Perry Ekimae

  Tyler J Perry “Thou shalt not kill.” – Exodus 20:13 “Slay him, for the Lord hath delivered him into thy hands.” – 1 Nephi 4:12 “That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, ‘Thou shalt not kill’; at another time he said, ‘Thou shalt utterly destroy.’” – “The Happiness Letter” [1] “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.” – 1 Corinthians 14:33 “Behold, mine house is a house of order, saith the Lord God, and not a house of confusion.” – Doctrine and Covenants 132:8 INTRODUCTION In my first mission area, I tracted into the home of a man, who, to my recollection, was an Adventist minister. He was cordial and accepted our invitation to read the Book of Mormon. We set a date to return and check in with his progress. At the time of the appointment, we sat down together and discussed his reading. He had started from the beginning of 1 Nephi. His first objection I, to thi...

 Tyler J Perry If you as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ever came across material such as Fawn Brodie's No Man Knows My History , the works of Jerald and Sandra Tanner, or the 1912 New York Times article about the Book of Abraham, you may have been told to dismiss them out of hand as “anti-Mormon lies". Indeed, this content that is damaging to the church and its reputation can appear to the believer as the work of the demonic Adversary whose sole goal it is to uproot the kingdom of God on Earth. It is, thus, convenient and, perhaps, even prudent to label this material as both “anti-Mormon” and “lies". However, a difficulty appears when one learns that Fawn Brodie’s work is shown to be truth faithful scholar Richard Bushman's biography of the Prophet Joseph Smith [1]. Worse still, the scholarly work of Jerald and Sandra Tanner has been moved from its place among the “anti-Mormon lies" and into the place of “uncomfortable truths"...