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Originally Posted by ceeboo
Hi Traveler,
Your first point ( with all due respect ) is largly assuming the truth of the very text under discussion. If one does not believe " IT " to be true then reading or digesting the contents of it seems a mute point.
" My method of questioning " counterfit tendor, I am sorry but that went way over my head.
God bless,
Carl
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I think I tried to outline a more efficient research method before. In essence, if you approach ANY thing with suspicious eyes and preconceived notions and ideas it IS a mute exercise. You MUST suspend those and analyze the text on its own merits, on your own, seeking reason and logic within the confines of your own mind and discernment from the Spirit. After all, you have no (or little) evidence for the bible either but a bona fide acceptance of it driven by traditions, which is OK I guess for now.
Resistance to "new" knowledge and information is to a certain extent normal and predictable. Now, in order to grow, transform the new data into actionable information you have to resist your temptation to bring in previous "experience" or encapsulated thinking. Simple; some of what you may now learn crates cognitive dissonance (sounds strange) or even perhaps feel that it contradict (which I can prove it is not so) what you thought you knew. The other part is that nobody likes to realize he/she has been wrong for so long. So it does take humility in that sense to entertain the possibility that you indeed may have been mistaken, misled or simply were taught incorrectly.
The key here is the true intent of our heart. The rest is just like Alma proposes:
"Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me." Alma 32:28
You should try it.
