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It Is Wrong To Doubt or Question Gospel Doctrines, or Is It A Normal Part of Developing A Testimony?
It Is Wrong To Doubt or Question Gospel Doctrines, or Is It A Normal Part of Developing A Testimony?
Pamela Suarez.
In February 2016, elder David A. Bernard performed a talk to missionaries from South America
Missions (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay), he taught about how do we fail when
we are trying to receive revelation during our scripture study, he said “…far to many
members of The Church, study the scriptures as objects… they read, and then they say in
And then wait for Heaven to deliver the goods. They are objects waiting to be acted
upon, and agent takes a question into the scriptures. And you are asking, seeking,
That is walking into the water before it parts; to simply read for fifteen minutes because
is a dutty, that’s good, but that is also, sometimes, like a standing onside of the river,
remark, is not the same have a question or a doubt just because we have not learned
enough yet, and we are ponder, investigating, and asking God with the security than
even if we don’t recive the answer that we are waiting, if this procede from the prophets
to understand it fully, than be asking with the intention to content or just find
apparently “mistakes”.
Talking about the testimonies, it is wonderful when a person is totally sure about the
true of the Church, but, naturally, most of the people have doubts, and that is also right.
Doubting or not about the true, is the big importance, ask God for a testimony, and
work hard to get it and grow it up. In the General Conference of April 2018, the elder
Neil L. Andersen declared “While my wife, Kathy, has known President Nelson
personally for nearly three decades and has no question about his divine
mantle, upon his setting apart, she began reading all his general conference
talks of the past 34 years, praying for an even deeper assurance of his
prophetic role. I promise you that this greater witness will come to you as you
So many person think that have questions about doctrine is a bad thing, some
of the act as we the questioner would inactive for having them or if we are
sinners, when the reality is, lots of the most crucial revelation exist because someone
had a question or doubt about what was the true or how should we proceed with what
have we learned in The Church. In Saints, Volume 1, we read how strong impacted in
Oliver Cowdery and Joseph Smith translated the chapter eleven in the Third book of
woods near the Susquehanna River. Kneeling, they asked God about baptism and the
remission of sins. As they prayed, the voice of the Redeemer spoke peace to them, and
an angel appeared in a cloud of light. He introduced himself as John the Baptist and
placed his hands on their heads. Joy filled their hearts as God’s love surrounded them. “
this paragraph is just the beginning of how do the received the Aaronic Priesthood, and
They are more and more examples explaining why doubts are not bad, and questions
are definitely good for develop our faith, a huge part of Doctrine and Convenants is
I conclude reminding you that The Restoration of the Church occurred because, one