If you believe the church is true because you have prayed and received a spiritual confirmation that it's true, how do you reconcile the fact that members of other churches pray to know if their churches are true and receive spiritual confirmation that they are as well?
Do you just assume they DON'T pray about that--that it's a fool-proof experiment that God revealed to Moroni and if they WOULD pray to know the truth God would send them to Mormonism? Or maybe you think they do but because they haven't actually read and prayed about the BOM specifically yet they haven't been asking the right questions and thus aren't receiving the right answers? That once they DO read and pray about the BOM THEN they will see the gross error of their ways and it will all make sense?
Rocks in hats, polyandry, lying, racism, sexism, homophobia, violence, etc all aside... this is a pretty important question to me personally. it might even be the crux of the whole matter. Because back when I assumed those things and DID trust the spiritual/emotional confirmations I had received, none of that other stuff bothered me (granted I was only aware of a handful of it, but still, I was pretty good at explaining it away because, hey, God had revealed to me the truth already--why should I doubt?). But now that I lack confidence in that method and that medium of arriving at truth and no longer trust that my spiritual experiences were really from God, that stuff DOES matter to me.
Many of you have implied you've already thought through every doubt I could have possibly had at my tender young age of 32, and still came out shining on the other side. So if that's true, perhaps you can help me on this one. Why should I trust any "spiritual confirmation" that I've had that the Mormon church is true?
Do you just assume they DON'T pray about that--that it's a fool-proof experiment that God revealed to Moroni and if they WOULD pray to know the truth God would send them to Mormonism? Or maybe you think they do but because they haven't actually read and prayed about the BOM specifically yet they haven't been asking the right questions and thus aren't receiving the right answers? That once they DO read and pray about the BOM THEN they will see the gross error of their ways and it will all make sense?
Rocks in hats, polyandry, lying, racism, sexism, homophobia, violence, etc all aside... this is a pretty important question to me personally. it might even be the crux of the whole matter. Because back when I assumed those things and DID trust the spiritual/emotional confirmations I had received, none of that other stuff bothered me (granted I was only aware of a handful of it, but still, I was pretty good at explaining it away because, hey, God had revealed to me the truth already--why should I doubt?). But now that I lack confidence in that method and that medium of arriving at truth and no longer trust that my spiritual experiences were really from God, that stuff DOES matter to me.
Many of you have implied you've already thought through every doubt I could have possibly had at my tender young age of 32, and still came out shining on the other side. So if that's true, perhaps you can help me on this one. Why should I trust any "spiritual confirmation" that I've had that the Mormon church is true?
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