{"id":822,"date":"2006-08-26T11:45:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T18:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/08\/26\/testimonies-fake-it-til-you-make-it\/"},"modified":"2006-08-26T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T18:45:42","slug":"testimonies-fake-it-til-you-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/08\/26\/testimonies-fake-it-til-you-make-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimonies: Fake it ’til you make it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I’ve read about this before but it still baffles me.<\/p>\n

The LDS say you can gain a testimony by bearing it.<\/p>\n

This concept makes very little sense to me. If you have no testimony and you say something like “I know Joseph Smith was a prophet, and I know the Book of Mormon is true”, doesn’t that make you a liar?<\/p>\n

You don’t know<\/strong> Joseph Smith was a prophet because you have no testimony<\/strong> of its’ truthfullness.<\/p>\n

You don’t know<\/strong> the Book of Mormon is true was a prophet because you have no testimony<\/strong> of its’ truthfullness.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to say something like “I’d really like to think that Joseph Smith was a prophet” or “All my friends and loved ones think that Joseph Smith was a prophet and I trust them to tell me the truth”.<\/p>\n

The thought of repeating something which you don’t know is true until you believe it is true just seems very, very odd to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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