August 31 – Testing all things. Titus 1:9 “Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.”
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Like many others in the Church, Mr. Clark sounds like a man of integrity, who means what he says, and will follow through. The problem is that he wasn’t, and he like many others, wouldn’t listen to any criticism of the Church. The old saying ‘Talk is cheap’, has never been more true than with the hollow statements like this one.
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“If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.” — J. Reuben Clark, The Church Years. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1983, p. 24
“But let every man PROVE HIS OWN WORK, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself and not in others.” (Galatians 6:4)
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, MAKE FULL PROOF OF THY MINISTRY (2 Timothy 4:5)
What did Joseph Smith ever do to prove any of his claims?