August 31 – Hold Fast to Sound Doctrine. 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
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You and I and MANY others have exposed their falsehoods and yet we are vilified for “attacking” the LDS rather than accepting facts.
I always remember two things.
1. I used to behave the same way.
2. Acts 5:41 “And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.”