If you don’t believe me when I say the Holy Ghost witnessed the truth of it to me, how is giving a detailed description of the experience going to change your mind? It’s still all just words typed by some stranger far away.
Besides, I don’t want you to rely on what I say, except to at least be open to the idea that it’s possible to pray about such things and get an answer from God. If you really want to know, apply the promise of the scriptures yourself and find out for yourself. Read the BoM, give it some honest consideration, and pray to God in the name of Christ to ask Him if it is true. God wants you to know the truth of it, he promised to answer such prayers when they are from sincere people with a real intent to find and live the truth.
How God will answer you is up to God, he knows how best to handle it for your case. When God does answer you, it will be by the power of the Holy Ghost, so the fruits of spirit (’love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance’ (Gal 5:22-23)) will be manifest at that time. Those positive, godly feelings will be with us when the Spirit is with us, Satan can’t give us those because he doesn’t have any of those and you can’t give what you don’t have. Satan relies on fear, intimidation, manipulation, confusion, anger, contention and other such fruits such as abound in his heart. In that way we can discern between the spirit of God and deceptions of Satan such as those that mislead others.
>> If you don’t believe me when I say the Holy Ghost witnessed the truth of it to me, how is giving a detailed description of the experience going to change your mind? <<
I’m not asking you for a detailed description; I’m asking you to simply state what you mean. At face value, you’d seem to be saying that someone appeared in a miraculous way, and said, “Hi, I’m the Holy Spirit. I swear that Mormonism is true.” I’ll presume you mean something a little more mystical. But what? Do you think Mormons are unique in having mystical experiences? Or was there something unique and particular to Mormonism about this? But you don’t even have to be THAT detailed. Just tell me what you mean by the “testimony of the Holy Ghost.”
>> Read the BoM <<
I’ve read it. It seems kinda silly.