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WILLIAM - What is the real story behind the famous portrait of Christ that the church uses? I heard that it is the real image of Christ. And the artist was asked by the Prophet to paint an exact image of the Lord and he did.

JOEL - I believe this is one of those Mormon urban legends that has no factual support. I know of no reliable reference that validates this claim.

WILLIAM - Is it true that Moses never entered the promised land? If so, why such a strict punishment, and why could he not be forgiven?

JOEL - The Bible scriptures suggest that the reason was the Lord's anger with Moses because he took credit for getting water from the rock and didn't follow the Lord's directions properly (Num. 20:1-12; Deut. 3:24-28; 31:2) . But this idea is somewhat contradictory with the following Doctrine and Covenants scriptures:

20 Therefore, in the ordinances thereof, the power of godliness is manifest.
21 And without the ordinances thereof, and the authority of the priesthood, the power of godliness is not manifest unto men in the flesh;
22 For without this no man can see the face of God, even the Father, and live.
23 Now this Moses plainly taught to the children of Israel in the wilderness, and sought diligently to sanctify his people that they might behold the face of God;
24 But they hardened their hearts and could not endure his presence; therefore, the Lord in his wrath, for his anger was kindled against them, swore that they should not enter into his rest while in the wilderness, which rest is the fulness of his glory.
25 Therefore, he took Moses out of their midst, and the Holy Priesthood also;" (D&C 84:20-25, See also Alma 45:19)

So it really wasn't because God was angry with Moses that he was not allowed to enter the promised land, His anger was more directed against the children of Israel and decided that they no longer deserved to have Moses with them. God does not translate sinful unrighteous people as he did Moses. If God was that angry with Moses why would He translate him (a greater blessing than entering the promised land) and immediately take him into heaven? Moses needed to be translated so that he, with Elijah, could lay on hands to confer the keys of the priesthood on Peter, James, and John on the Mount of Transfiguration.

WILLIAM - I heard that too much laughter is sinful. Does that mean we have to stop laughing so much? or watch how much we laugh? Help me understand this please.

JOEL - In the D&C we read:

"And inasmuch as ye do these things with thanksgiving, with cheerful hearts and countenances, not with much laughter, for this is sin, but with a glad heart and a cheerful countenance—" (D&C 59:15)

From this scripture and a few others in the D&C one would think that laughter is sinful but it is important to understand the setting in which the statements regarding laughter were made. The above scripture was given in connection with how one should conduct Sabbath activities.
In another scripture to the participants in the school of the prophets, the admonition was to cast away their "excess of laughter," and to "cease from all your light speeches, from all laughter, from all your lustful desires" (D&C 88:69, 121). The purposes of this spiritual school made it inappropriate to mingle jest and joviality with the serious and sacred matters under consideration. In this particular setting, light-mindedness had no place.
In our day there are places where light-mindedness and loud laughter are inappropriate. Elder Joseph Fielding Smith counseled that "amusement, laughter, [and] light-mindedness, are all out of place in the sacrament meetings of the Latter-day Saints" (Conference Report, Oct. 1929, p. 62). This same counsel was applied to general conference sessions when the Lord's spokesman, President Harold B. Lee, cautioned the speakers and congregation about "great crescendos" of laughter "that might be mistaken by those who are listening on the outside" (Conference Report, Oct. 1972, p. 176).
The scriptures remind us that "to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven," including "a time to laugh" (Eccl. 3:1-4). Elder Boyd K. Packer has observed that the Savior himself "would chuckle with approval when at times of recreation the music is comical or melodramatic or exciting. Or at times when a carnival air is in order that decorations be bright and flashy, even garish."Nevertheless, Elder Packer cautioned, "I am sure He would be offended at immodesty and irreverence in music, in art, in poetry, in writing, in sculpture, in dance, or in drama" (Devotional Speaches of the Year, 1976, p. 279).
Elder Joseph Fielding Smith counseled: "I do not believe the Lord intends and desires that we should pull a long face and look sanctimonious and hypocritical. I think he expects us to be happy and of a cheerful countenance, but he does not expect of us the indulgence in boisterous and unseemly conduct and the seeking after the vain and foolish things which amuse and entertain the world." (Conference Report, Oct. 1916, p. 70.) That which evokes our laughter must be celestially compatible with Christ's sense of humor. Appropriate laughter and a smiling countenance should be part of a religion that espouses the doctrine that "men are, that they might have joy" (2 Ne. 2:25), and whose founding Prophet proclaimed, "Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God" (TPJS, 255-56). Latter-day Saints must not be "pallbearer types," quipped Elder Paul H. Dunn; "you can be spiritual and have fun too" (Church News, Apr. 15, 1978, p. 14).

WILLIAM - Is it Gods will for people to be sick and sometimes die? or does God want everyone to be healed if they will only supply the faith and the right thinking and words? I want to know if sometimes it is Gods will for people to be sick and/or die.

JOEL - It depends on what you mean by is it "Gods will for people to be sick and/or die". We must all of course eventually die. I don't think God really wants to see His children suffer sickness and death; I don't think He actually causes people to be sick, but He allows it to happen through the natural earthly conditions of mortality, because He knows it is a way we can be tested and tried to see if we will maintain faith in Him regardless of what happens to us. So I guess, in a way, it is His will for us to experience sickness and death.
God allows people to suffer to see if we will express our compassion and help that person or if we will "pass by on the other side" as recorded in the story of the good Samaritan(Luke 10:30-37). Such situations give us the opportunity to exercize our faith as we pray and give priesthood blessings to the sick which can, if it is God's will, cause people to be healed.
"And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, ,neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." (John 9:2-3)
We should always have faith that we can be healed from all sickness, but realize when it does not happen that it must be contrary to God's plan for us. And if after all the prayers and blessings one dies anyway we should remember what God told us:

"And the elders of the church, two or more, shall be called, and shall pray for and alay their hands upon them in my name; and if they die they shall die unto me, and if they live they shall live unto me.
And it shall come to pass that those that die in me shall not taste of death, for it shall be sweet unto them;" (D&C 46:44, 46)