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Who told you before you were baptized and confirmed? It couldn’t have been the Holy Ghost because you didn’t recieve him until you were confirmed.

[tantiboh]

~”Who told you before you were baptized and confirmed? It couldn’t have been the Holy Ghost because you didn’t recieve him until you were confirmed.”~

You know very well LDS doctrine on this point. You understand the difference between the gift of the Holy Ghost and the influence of the Holy Ghost.

[Old Student]

“Who told you before you were baptized and confirmed? It couldn’t have been the Holy Ghost because you didn’t recieve him until you were confirmed.”

You know as well as I do that is not true. Before you are baptized and confirmed you don’t necessarily have him with you always, but that doesn’t mean he can’t drop in on you once in a while. I spent literally years praying to know which church was true, which one I should join. And years having given up. And then trying again. You have to be ready to listen to the Holy Ghost before there is any point in his talking to you, after all. I’m, I guess, a bit more stubborn than most, so it took me longer to be really ready to listen. I was 40 before that happened. I started when I was ten.

Funny thing, it was something the Baptist-minister step-father told me that allowed me to recognize it when it happened. Since he’s also the one who contributed so much to my giving up, I hope it helps him when he faces judgement. Without that little bit of truth he gave me, I might never have believed in anything.