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Originally Posted by eddly
Certainly true in mormonism. I'm surprised sometimes by what my father does not know about the history of the church. He has held several fairly high level positions where I live. What you have to understand is the fact that we as Mormons are not actively taught every little detail about church history. Essentially we are given a very bare version. So when someone asks a question here and we don't have an answer, don't be surprised and assume we are hiding secrets that we know... it really isn't the case. As with most, if not all religions, belief is based on faith not facts alone.
Mormons generally don't care that they don't know every single detail about the early church. They feel that they received a spiritual witness of its truthfulness and that trumps everything. Therein lies the problem as people in other religions also feel that they have received a witness proving that their church is correct. So much confusion in this world.
At the end of the day, if you are happy worshiping as you do, and it does not negatively impact others I really don't care what you believe and would not want to tear down what someone believes.
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My final question to you eddly...I promise I wont bother you with this anymore. You suggest in this post that "
Mormons are not actively taught every little detail about church history" and "
Mormons generally don't care that they don't know every single detail about the early church" yet you obviously have bought into the system 100%.
IF I was to tell you that you could use that same reasoning and try to get a job as a doctor/lawyer/engineer...would it work? If not why wouldnt you study every little piece of church history you could find. Isnt it important to have
all the knowledge?