by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Mar 24, 2012 | LDS and Jewish beliefs
By Marlena Tanya Muchnick, LDS author, speaker, researcher Since joining the LDS church almost 24 years ago, I have heard members discuss the nuts and bolts of their inheritance as adoptees into the House of Israel. Thanks to scriptures and scriptorians, the answers...
by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Mar 17, 2012 | LDS and Jewish beliefs
In response to the news in recent days that Holocaust victim Anne Frank has been posthumously baptized nine times by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I have several observations on the subject of proxy baptisms. The American Gathering of...
by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Mar 15, 2012 | LDS and Jewish beliefs
What is a testimony? How does it come about and what does it mean to the bearer? In 1Cor 12:3 the Apostle Paul, teaching of the gifts of the Spirit said “…no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.” John the Baptist gave a perfect testimony to the...
by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Dec 11, 2011 | LDS and Jewish beliefs
Now you can purchase A Mormon’s Guide to Judaism, People of The Book (Am ha-sefer Torah), and Notes of a Jewish Convert to the LDS Church through Kindle. Also visit www.jewishconvert-lds.com to see and purchase Marlena’s books. Very nominally priced, they...
by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | May 1, 2011 | LDS and Jewish beliefs
By Marlena Tanya Muchnick LDS Author, Speaker, bookseller Part of a series on Core Values of Judaism Reincarnation, or the time when the spirit of a deceased person lives again in another form, dimension, other abode, is a central tenet of all major religions....
by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Jan 2, 2011 | LDS and Jewish beliefs
January 2011 Excellent question! That is akin to asking why the Mormons study the Book of Mormon or Doctrine and Covenants or Pearl of Great Price. Those scriptures are central to Mormonism, just as the Torah (teaching) is central to Judaism and has been since the...