My wife read this quote to me, and I actually think it's quite good. I'm going off memory here, so hopefully I don't botch it:
Don't let something you don't know, shake your faith in what you do know.
I guess my wife didn't see the irony when she read it to me.
Anyhow, just thought I'd share, because I actually think it's pretty good advice.
WK: "Joseph Smith asserted that the Book of Mormon peoples were the original inhabitants of the americas"
Will Schryver: "No, he didn’t." 3/19/08
Still waiting for Will to back this up...
If I have knowledge, I don't need faith. Therefore nothing can shake the faith of what I know simply because I have no faith when I have knowledge. I could swear that I learned this in Alma 32 and also in Ether about Brother of Jared having "faith no longer" (Ether 3:19).
That's the problem with faith and knowledge as used in the church. The terms are imprecise and thus often used in equivocation.
I will certainly allow revising my opinion on what I think I know. If I did not, how could I have ever come to a knowledge of the true church if I were born into a circumstance where I thought I knew that the Book of Mormon or even Christianity as a whole was not true. I've never regretted reading proofs and changing my mind in mathematics, so why should I use a different approach for religion?
That's General Leo. He could be my friend if he weren't my enemy. eritis sicut dii I support NCMO