Gordon wrote:Drifting wrote:For the record.
I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm saying you have no way of knowing that you are right. You only believe you are right based on a series of differing feelings and sensations that you choose to interpret as coming from the Holy Ghost. Whilst others, experiencing these same sensations and feelings interpret them as self generated.
Now, I
could be right, and others wrong, or me wrong, and them right. Or, we could
both be wrong, or, in this instance, both be right. Confusing...
We are nearing....*pauses for effect*...an accord...
It's the confusion that I find the most unsettling aspect.
According to Mormonism (and probably other religions too) the Gospel is meant to be a clear and simple thing. Therefore, I believe, identifying what is 'right or wrong' from a Gospel point of view should be equally clear and simple.
But it isn't.
The Holy Ghost method of identifying truth is inconsistent, suspect and unreliable. As evidenced by the differing results generated by differing people following the same advice. I was at a convention where Paul H Dunn told his tales. The Holy Ghost, according to everyone I spoke to afterwards, had moved them and witnessed to them he spoke the truth.
We find out years later that actually he hadn't spoke the truth.
It should be consistent, it should be fool proof. It isn't.