[How do you know the church is true?]

I know the Church is true by the power of the Holy Spirit. I know that when I pray the Lord answers prayers, and has answered many of mine.

I heard a non-Mormon Christian say once that he knew his denomination was true by the power of the Holy Spirit. Does that mean Mormonism is not true? Am I supposed to believe you or him? What prayers of yours has the Lord answered, and which ones hasn't He? Did the Spirit give you any clue why He didn't answer some?

I know that miracles have not ceased and they continue today. I know that by the power of the priesthood that these miracles are accomplished.

Describe to me the miracle you have experienced. Tell me how you know that these miracles are accomplished by the power of the priesthood.

I know the scriptures provide insight to the mind and will of God, as I have heard his voice from time to time when I read and the Lord teaches me through the power of the Holy Spirit.

What does His voice sound like? What did it say? I imagine if you've heard the voice of God you would remember what it sounded like and what He said.

I know that when I fast the Lord has honored my fast.

How do you know the Lord honored your fast? What does that mean exactly?

Instead of asking people to share "specific examples," some of which are too sacred to share in an open forum. A person (if LDS as your profile suggests) should seek out their own personal experiences as their own.

I've heard plenty of examples, even ones you might consider sacred. I haven't heard one from you yet. Please share the ones you don't consider too sacred to share in an open forum. I'm curious what you define as sacred as well. I've sought my own personal experiences and the Holy Spirit (or maybe it was just random chance) showed me contradictions to the church being true. So I am asking you how you know that it's true.

[Word of Wisdom and marijuana. Very serious.]

Anandamide is a form of THC:

Does the human body naturally produce THC

Does this mean God made it different in our bodies and the plant to make sure we'd avoid it? Why did God make the plant to begin with? How many other chemicals could God have made that would get us high that we shouldn't take and why didn't he make those to tempt us with? Oh wait, nature keeps making those randomly.

[How do you know the church is true?]

I reached a point in my life where it was a matter of life or death to know what truth was. Either this is a God or there is not. Either what I was taught as a child was true or it was not. Truth was somewhere but what it was I did not know.

Thank you for your story Martain. I would never consider killing myself over whether God exists or not, but I would rather you believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster than kill yourself.

Originally I intended to search everywhere but the restored Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first and then if I didn't find the truth I would return to my roots. Though I tried, I could not read the books on the other religions I had purchased. I realized that if what I had been taught was true, if I searched these other paths I would never return to test that door at all.

If you were born into another religion, would you be unable to read the Book of Mormon?

How do I know the church is true? I planted the seed, I tested the promise and I received a witness within my heart that this was true. It was a feeling I'd never really enjoyed before. It was a burning in my busom... not of heat, but of light and warmth and happiness and peace...

I would like you to tell your story on any other Christian board, Moroni quotes and all. I'm sure they have their own stories related to their bible just like this, and would never consider going down the road of Mormonism. Who's going to the higher kingdom?

I'm glad you found your peace Martain, and maybe that's the best for you, but I'm not seeing yet that the church is the best for everybody. Are all the other Christians not going to the Celestial kingdom?

[How do you know the church is true?]

Sometimes there are no specific examples. For me it is something I just knew.

How do you know? What does that mean? It's just something you feel?

As time has gone by there have been incidents that support my belief but nothing that proved it.

What incidents?

In fact if we have proof/evidence we have no need of faith. We are not here to prove. We are here to have faith.

You're right, if there's proof, we have no need of faith. If we need faith, why are things proved over time? How do you know we're here to have faith?

Some of the things that supported my belief are: When our babies died. When we were sealed as a family forever. When our children were born. When my dad died.

How do any of these things support your knowledge that it's true? How do your babies dying confirm that? How does being sealed convince you that being sealed is required for salvation? How does your children being born make you realize a church is true that was not required for you to have babies, and that does not prevent other mothers from feeling something magical after seeing their babies for the first time? How does your dad dying prove to you that the church is true?

When I have sat quietly and felt the spirit fill my soul with joy. When I read the Book of Mormon and am touched to tears. When I taste fresh peaches off the tree. All things testify of Him. If we listen.

I've felt a lot of wonderful things just like this doing things not related to the church, not in context of the church. I've felt joy in my soul when I learned someone kicked an alcohol habit, I cried when I read a book by Robert Frost, I love fresh pears off a tree, but that didn't convince me a certain book in a certain religion was true... just trying to connect the dots here. I think you feel because you get good feelings with the Book of Mormon and other things, and that someone told you it was true and that you'd get good feelings about it, that that makes the Book of Mormon true. So far this just seems to be about feelings.

[Word of Wisdom and marijuana. Very serious.]

I have some PTSD issues, albeit not crazy in my opinion. I manage to get on with everyday life after reading experiences from some older veterans who said life from that point on is about putting on one pant leg at a time, and getting on it with it.

If marijuana helps you with debilitating stress and does not cause debilitating problems, then use it. There's plenty of illegal drugs that can be used as medicine in the right doses (arsenic is good for you in teeny tiny amounts), and your body naturally produces THC.

If you can get ahold of the medicinal version, that is far more effective and has less side effects than just smoking it. If you're afraid you are being immoral by using it, then by all means find an alternative. But if God is the highest intelligence, he will realize that marijuana is better than horrible dreams every night.

[What would you do if you saw a child alone in a car?]

I'd call the police or pray for God to save it.

[How do you know the church is true?]

I asked someone how they knew Jesus Christ was our lord and savior, and she said it was proved to her outside of the confines of the church, and it wasn't just a feeling. I figured she'd seen Jesus step in front of her car and stop her from driving through an intersection where a sleeping truck driver was running a red light, but she wouldn't tell me.

Would you like to tell me how you know the church is true? I'd like specific examples please.