Tag: Testimony

  • Five Key Facts

    Five Key Facts

    bwv549

    This is a very short sum­ma­ry of what I view as the 5 most impor­tant facts in under­stand­ing alter­na­tive mod­els for LDS truth claims. To the best of my knowl­edge, every point made in this doc­u­ment is accept­ed as fac­tu­al by both LDS and non-LDS schol­ars (please cor­rect me if…

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  • Testimony, Spiritual Experiences, and Truth: A Careful Examination

    Testimony, Spiritual Experiences, and Truth: A Careful Examination

    bwv549

    1 Introduction 2 Do spir­i­tu­al impres­sions teach truth? 3 What’s behind a spir­i­tu­al experience? 4 Tes­ti­mo­ny, bias, and propaganda 5 Cir­cu­lar­i­ties: pulling our­selves up by our bootstraps? 6 Conclusions 7 Addi­tion­al reading (note: This arti­cle is an updat­ed ver­sion of my orig­i­nal Ratio­nal Faiths arti­cle) 1 Introduction 1.1 Know the truth…

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