However, for a person in the church to remain an active and believing member they need to have a series of conversion experiences along the way or they are most likely to become lukewarm or inactive. Those that don't have any significant conversion experiences or explain them away as being 'figments of emotional imagination' or the 'effects of a frenzied mind' are even more likely to leave the 'faith of their childhood/fathers'.
You see the arrogance inherent in that baseless assertion, don't you? You also must recognise that you have no way of reliably claiming something is a 'significant conversion experience' as opposed to a 'figment of emotional imagination'. Even Elder Packer acknowledge the latter can be mistaken for the former.
From my experience and observation I consider my comments to be nearer to fact than fiction.
You see the arrogance inherent in that baseless assertion, don't you? You also must recognise that you have no way of reliably claiming something is a 'significant conversion experience' as opposed to a 'figment of emotional imagination'. Even Elder Packer acknowledge the latter can be mistaken for the former.
From my experience and observation I consider my comments to be nearer to fact than fiction.
Regards,
MG
There’s no doubting your high opinion of yourself.
Premise 1. Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.
Premise 2. The best evidence for the Book of Mormon is eyewitness testimony.
Conclusion. Therefore, the best evidence for the Book of Mormon is notoriously unreliable.