A good quote from the Ensign. Really!

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_Who Knows
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A good quote from the Ensign. Really!

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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.
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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?
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_Lucretia MacEvil
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Re: A good quote from the Ensign. Really!

Post by _Lucretia MacEvil »

Who Knows wrote:Don't let something you don't know, shake your faith in what you do know.


Enlightenment is knowing that we don't know.
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