The Book of Mormon impresses me most as a profound source of knowledge and perspective. It teaches the gospel in doctrinal passages that are crystal clear and uncannily pertinent both to the minutiae of personal life and to the megatrends of world affairs. …[more]
Just as economists, including me, can see the results of operative causes we cannot see or fully understand, I have seen the results of faith and the power of God in my life. …[more]
My testimony is that when Joseph Smith told about the restoration of the Gospel, authority, the church, covenants, ordinances, and doctrines of Christ, he told us things as they really are. How do I know that? Because, starting from that small place, I have experienced it all. …[more]
I discovered that there was a profound difference between knowing something is true and knowing what it means. Thus I have never doubted the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon, but have spent much of my life since trying to grasp its meaning. …[more]
Studying medieval Catholicism, playing Lutheran chorale preludes on the organ, and reading contemporary relational theology has strengthened, enriched, and enhanced my religious identity. …[more]
This request to share my testimony with others whose criteria for professing that they know something might differ from mine leads me to first clarify the basis for my claims. Using these criteria I will then share several things that I “know.” …[more]
Science is not a threat to God and God is not a threat to science. God is the greatest scientist. We need to understand that truth can be obtained by both scientific and spiritual inquiry. …[more]
My testimony of the truth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and that of the Book of Mormon is certain. I say without any hesitation that I possess a knowledge that there is a God in heaven and that He has revealed Himself to me. …[more]
I know that Jesus is the Christ, our Savior and Redeemer, who, with his blood, bought our souls that we may be alive in Him, now and forever. This knowledge, borne by the Spirit, is less like a proposition, or a bare fact, than it is like knowledge of a relationship. …[more]
When I think about the teachings of the restored church of Jesus Christ I am filled with awe at their simplicity and simultaneous multifaceted depth. …[more]
In the spring 1973, I met the Elders at the house of a friend. I invited them in and they told me about the First Vision and the Book of Mormon, then a totally unbelievable story to me. I borrowed a Book of Mormon to prove that it plagiarized from the Bible and I bought a Bible to do so. …[more]
The Hungarian battle for liberty became a pivotal experience for me, which impelled me to search for truth. I began to read in the New Testament, and was very taken by the words of Jesus Christ. These words were new to me. …[more]
Much of my life has been lived between my two ears. As I reflect upon my faith and seek to give my personal testimony, I am hopelessly coded not only to witness to what I know but to probe the foundations of my own witness. …[more]
I have found that the proof of confirming spiritual truths is not found in a cerebral laboratory, but rather in both the mind and heart by the whisperings of the Holy Ghost, the Comforter which bears witness to our spirits of divine truths. …[more]
For me, my faith centers in the Savior Jesus Christ, His mission and great atonement for all people, the reality of His resurrection, and the promise we each have of eternal life. …[more]
My mind has always been drawn to the quest for the “grand theory of everything.” Given this propensity, it’s perfect that I was born within Mormonism with its bold and expansive views of God, the eternities, and who we are. …[more]
EVERY teaching of Christ leads to the atonement, and arguably my three favorite scriptures describe the essence of the Atonement—that is, Christ’s willingness, ability, and eternal commitment to find, fix, bind up, repair, make whole and holy everyone who is lost or broken. …[more]
LDS doctrine proposed a testable approach for confirmation of its truthfulness. It is a belief framework that was amazingly self-consistent, and also consistent with my observations of the world. …[more]
I am a convert, and it was my wife that brought me into the Church. I was baptized on 20 December 1987 in the West Lafayette Indiana Purdue Ward. At the time of my baptism I was a first year doctoral student in civil engineering at Purdue University. …[more]
I have a great many colleagues who probably wonder if I am crazy because of my adherence to religion and my steadfast refusal to drink exotic draft beers and expensive vintages of wine. I am writing this brief statement of beliefs with these non-religious colleagues in mind. …[more]
