Themis wrote:OK. We seem to be discussing this on two threads, but then I guess they both started on about the Book of Mormon story of Nephi killing Laban.
I am going to assume this is the method you are talking about for your own experiences, or at least similar to that. In the other thread I listed these as very difficult to know one is getting the right interpretation, especially since we are taught exactly the interpretation we should get. It's also a circular argument. I wonder how many of us as children were praying about the Book of Mormon and then waiting to get that burning in the bosom. This kind of experience involving burning of the bosom, and other feelings, thoughts, emotions, etc seem to be quite common around the world, and people seem to get all kinds of different messages, some about objective truth claims.
Like I said earlier, if we can't agree on the premise of being able to discern whether our own experiences are real or not, then further discussion on this matter is rather pointless.
Furthermore, I gave one interpretation of a witness, but there are others, and it boils down to a sure knowledge...even though you seem to think such is impossible.
I think you have plenty of evidence from people in your own life. For those who are dead you could read journals, letters and such. I am sure they are plenty in which we don't have enough evidence. So what. I have already shown you can prove love.
I'm talking about another's love, people not in my life...how do you prove that? You talk about evidence, but you don't seem to accept the evidence of a spiritual witness, which is manifest by the actions regarding it.
All they need to be is individual, since that was what you were asking about.
And you can't prove another's personal feelings absolutely (one way or another)...only your own.