Discovering the Word of Wisdom: Strategies for Going Cold Turkey
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- Who Is a Mormon? by Christopher D. Cunningham
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- Shamar: What It Means to “Keep” the Commandments in Hebrew by Steve Densley, Jr.
- What Joseph Smith Saw in Exodus That We’ve Been Missing by Alvin H. Andrew
- You Mormons Are Ignoramuses: Appreciating the Restoration Doctrine That Adam and Eve “Fell Up” by H. Craig Petersen
- (Re)Discovering Lorenzo Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise” at the BYU Museum of Art by John Dye
- When Symbols Become Idols: Remembering What Points Us to Christ by Spencer Anderson
- “All Things Point Us to the Savior’s Atonement”–Come Follow Me Podcast #19: Exodus 35-40; Leviticus 1; 4; 16; 19 by Scot and Maurine Proctor
- Currents: Marie Osmond on Alan Osmond’s Death; Most of the Cast of “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County” Are Not Members; Radical Left Podcaster Justifies Murder and Looting; and More by Meridian Magazine
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Jane BirchDecember 30, 2015
Kathy: Thanks for your question. I love D&C 49 and have written on it several times. Here is one summary of my thinking on the verses you refer to: https://discoveringthewordofwisdom.com/about/the-word-of-wisdom/wow-faqs/command-to-abstain/
KathyDecember 29, 2015
What are your thoughts on D&C 49:18-19?
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