| Re: Believing or Knowing Jesus is the Christ [message #3422 is a reply to message #3421] |
Tue, 24 February 2015 21:40  |
 |
Dragon
Messages: 499
Registered: June 2010
Location: Earth
|
Senior Member |
|
|
Michael,
I would have enjoyed being in that Gospel Doctrine class! I'm glad you spoke up for yourself and stated what you believe despite the disbelieving ears.
For myself, the difference between believing and knowing is best described by Alma. After reading and studying the many sermons of Alma the Elder and the Younger, I conclude that to KNOW means you have tested your belief through faith and received personal evidence that it is true. This is like me saying I KNOW this seed is an orange seed. If I gave you that seed and you had never seen one before, you would have to simply believe me or not. You could not know for yourself. If you planted that seed, and an orange tree grew, you would then KNOW it was an orange seed and have plenty of your own seeds to hand out to others. That is how a testimony grows. I KNOW that Jesus is the Christ. I KNOW that Jesus lives. I know that if others will believe on my witness to the point of acting on it, in the way that acting on an orange seed produces an orange tree, then they too can ALL KNOW for themselves these same things.
Dragon
- Dragon
|
|
|
|
Elliaison.org - Forum
Search
Help
Members
Register
Login
Home
