“I have needed God’s direction and guidance in these matters — I am not willing to take another person’s word for truth unless I feel it confirmed to me by God in my soul.”
“The only reason I am a Latter-day Saint is because of the witness and testimony of the Holy Spirit of God confirming to me of the truthfulness of the teachings taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”
And yet, you have admitted the following:
1. You have no way to KNOW that your “witness and testimony”
is from the Holy Spirit and not a demon or familiar spirit.
2. You have no way to know other than your own feelings.
3. You have no way to measure what is true objectively.
4. And based entirely on your feelings, you have accepted
a teaching that is contrary to what God says about himself,
is illogical, and cannot possibly be true.
Now, you have a right to believe whatever you like. I have
no argument with you there.
But you are basing your whole eternal destiny on your feelings
and nothing else. All rope. No net.
And all based on gods and becoming a god. None of which is
possible.
None.
1. You have no way to KNOW that your “witness and testimony”
is from the Holy Spirit and not a demon or familiar spirit.
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The Holy Spirit witness and teaches a man to do good the will of the Heavenly Father.
To Love one another, the devil will never teach this!
The Spirit of the Lord will teach
2 Nephi 25
26 And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins.
27 Wherefore, we speak concerning the law that our children may know the deadness of the law; and they, by knowing the deadness of the law, may look forward unto that life which is in Christ, and know for what end the law was given. And after the law is fulfilled in Christ, that they need not harden their hearts against him when the law ought to be done away.
28 And now behold, my people, ye are a stiffnecked people; wherefore, I have spoken plainly unto you, that ye cannot misunderstand. And the words which I have spoken shall stand as a testimony against you; for they are sufficient to teach any man the right way; for the right way is to believe in Christ and deny him not; for by denying him ye also deny the prophets and the law.
29 And now behold, I say unto you that the right way is to believe in Christ, and deny him not; and Christ is the Holy One of Israel; wherefore ye must bow down before him, and worship him with all your might, mind, and strength, and your whole soul; and if ye do this ye shall in nowise be cast out.
Yet the Devil will teach a man to be faultfinding, and contentions!
Hi Ampu,
Do you believe that God can reveal his mind and will to an individual, and give inspiration and guidance?
I disagree when you say that I have no way of knowing whether something is of God or of a demon.
We all are born with an inborn knowledge of good and evil which God has given us a way to judge between what is of God and what is of the devil. It is the light of Christ — which is “the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world” (John 1:9)
This light allows us to discern what is of light and what is of darkness. It is a gift and a guide that can lead a man or woman to Christ, if they do not harden our hearts and “quench the Spirit” (1 Thess. 5:19)