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Originally Posted by jay santos
I study in an attempt to grow closer to God and connect with the Holy Ghost, and get myself in the frame of mind to receive personal revelation. I know that's a very trivial reason to the intellectuals of the world.
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I won't diminish anybody's reasons, as whatever adds meaning to your life, is worthwhile.
In advancing an argument for scholarly exegesis, not something for which I have the abilities but wish I did, how does one know what one believes one knows.
The reason for the inquiry is constant re-examination what I believe or think I believe to know shows me, I am usually only partially correct. For example, things confirmed via the Spirit, I wonder which aspects of any particular "concept" is being confirmed. Example, we love to say, "we know the BoM is true." But what does that mean? That the principles are divinely inspired, that the events are historically accurate, that the "translation" is perfect? I have answers to some of those question, but a personal working, constantly on the principles, causes me to avoid setting in stone what I think I know. I find new angles constantly and those angles shed a different light on how I perceive God to work.
The source knowledge, what one knows and how one perfects what one believes to know is a source of constant concern to me. I find I'm usually in error in my previous observations, not always in huge magnitudes, but in magnitudes significant enough to require reinspection.