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For the past several years, I have been doing my best to navigate my way through Mormonism by relying on what my heart and mind tell me rather than relying on other people, regardless of their position.

It was while thinking about this last Sunday that a statement from Joseph Smith's King Follett Discourse came to me and resonated like nobody's business.


After comparing the translations of several Bibles and referring to it as the oldest book, Joseph suddenly changed course and said,

I thank God that I have the oldest book in my heart.


Joseph Smith identified this "oldest book" as the Gift of the Holy Ghost, but it seemed to me that he was saying something similar to what I have been feeling.

Does this resonate with anybody else?

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

This made me think about what the (literally) oldest book might be, and then I thought about all the religious beliefs that existed in the tens of thousands of years before the first priest ever imagined a Yahweh or an El. Imagine if we really had the oldest book, the story of humanity's first gods. The bear gods and fire gods and fertility gods and assorted animal spirits.

We are indeed designed by God and as such He has placed in us what we need to choose the correct path for us. So yes we do have the oldest book contained in us. It was written before the creation and will stand as a testament for all time. Now some will ignore the book and by pride seek other sources for their knowledge. This sets up polar opposites on the world for us to navigate. But this is expected and should not concern us. Men of the world embrace the ideas of men and seek no higher power but their own. In this they place them self as a god on the earth. But many will experience tribulation and at the moment of death they will realize that the world is but a stepping stone.

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