Truth
We have been given wonderful tools that can help us discern from what is good and evil and what is truth in this world. We look to the scriptures, counsel from our church leaders and through prayer to receive answers to what is truth. We can know that Heavenly Father will confirm that truth to us in our hearts and in our minds and we can feel that confirmation through feelings of peace and comfort.
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Truth is so important for us to be aware of and understand especially relating to the importance of families. There are many diverse and mixed notions in this world about what defines a family and what Heavenly Father has intended for us. We need to prepare ourselves so that when we are faced with choices and opposition, we will be able to be firm in our faith of what we believe to be true.
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We can learn from this wonderful example as demonstrated by Alma and Korihor in the Book of Mormon. To the right, is a link to an article by Gerald N. Lund discussing ways we can learn from this story to know what is true and what is false.
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Korihor’s philosophies are everywhere we look in this world now. We are influenced by cunning strategies in the media, advertisements and even through friends, politics, and social media. People use their logic and rational to conclude that evil things are good and that it is natural to do so. We are also heavily persuaded by authoritarianism by all of our various types of leaders and people we consider “examples” or “leaders” perhaps celebrities and other influential people. So many people are deceived by these philosophies because they seem logical to them and just like in the article, its true that it can rationally make sense but they are leaving out the metaphysics and axiology in their thinking. There is always a consequence to every action and we are responsible for the choices we make. The world always demands for proof for anything they are trying to believe in but that leaves out the principle of faith and hope.
Here is an additional talk that discusses how we can find truth.
This link will bring you to some wonderful quotes given by our church leaders regarding truth.
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