https://bookofmormononline.com/2168/book-of-mormon-faith Another Testament of Jesus Christ Fri, 14 Dec 2012 03:51:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://bookofmormononline.com/2168/book-of-mormon-faith#comment-2473 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:21:12 +0000 http://en.elds.org/bookofmormononline-com/?p=2168#comment-2473 I like what you said about starting with what you have when you are gaining faith. In Alma 32 of The Book of Mormon the prophet Alma teaches about how to obtain faith in the word of God–the scriptures, words of the prophets, etc. He says that the one of the initial steps to gaining faith in the word of God is simply by finding out if it is good. If the words written in the scriptures are good you will feel that they are good. Alma says that if these words are good then they will “enlarge [your ] soul” and “enlighten [your] understanding.” Once we gain a belief that the word of God is good, then we can build off of that and find out for ourselves if it is true. This principle that Alma taught is the same that you talked about. We need to start small, and build off the things that we know. If we feel that what the scriptures teach are good things, then we can build off of that belief and gain faith that they are true.

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