According to "The Information", people didn't have the same concept of information before the use of computers. "We can see now that information is what our world runs on: the blood and the fuel, the vital principal." As I sat in my temple class today I saw an application of the principles in this book. Before baptisms for the dead were done in the Nauvoo Temple, people did this ordinance in the Mississippi River. Because no records were kept, there were many duplications of baptisms, making some of these redundant. The prophet Joseph Smith had a revelation that these ordinances needed to be recorded on earth to be recorded in heaven. Now that we have a greater knowledge of what information is, we are better able to deal with the vastness of the family connections within the human population. This vastness is not much compared to what God can handle, but we are able to help move the work forward as we use this new understanding of information and computing in the form of familysearch.org.
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