“And how do you KNOW it was the same as Peter and the Apostles
instead of how Reverend Sun Myung Moon knows he is the Christ, or how the polygamist Jeffords knows he is a mormon
prophet of God???”
If it was the same as what Reverend Sun Myung Moon claimed, or Jeffords it would have testified of them.
You can keep pushing these kind of questions all you want, either you get to the point where you question the existence of all reality vs. some kind of illusion as in The Matrix (which boils down to concluding there is no truth of any kind that can be known) or you have to at some point say ‘By my own experience I know it to be true.’
I don’t care what you think of it, I’m the one who is going to answer to God for my life. Why do you think the Bible would tell people to seek wisdom and knowledge by prayer if there was no way for prayer to impart wisdom and knowledge? Why would God ask people to do that if they would be unable to tell if they got an answer, or if their answer really came from God. You can choose to either exercise faith an apply the promise and find out for yourself, or you can sit there on the outside asking pointless questions and refusing to find out the way Christ instructed you to.
“If it was the same as what Reverend Sun Myung Moon claimed, or Jeffords it would have testified of them.”
Yet, if I asked Rev. Moon, who claims to be Christ, or if
I asked Mr. Jeffords, who claims to be the Prophet over the
other mormon group, they would both tell me exactly what you
said! Their testimony left your mormon truth out. Surely, if
you were right, their personal truth would have validated
it.
Their standard for knowing truth is your standard - personal experience. What makes your personal experience valid and their personal experience invalid?
You and other mormons who post here and ones I have spoken
with in person, frequently and almost exclusively resort back
to the burning experience as the basis of truth - subjective,
personal experience that trumps objective sources of truth...
and as demonstrated by illustration above, invalid.
If you are going to claim it is the foundation of all, I would
think you could explain these obvious discrepancies.
ampu