Alma 30:14-15, 17

"Behold, these things which ye do call prophecies, which ye say are handed down by holy prophets, behold, they are foolish traditions of your fathers.
How do ye know of their surety? Behold, ye cannot know of things which ye do not see; therefore ye cannot know that there shall be a Christ.
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And many more such things did he say unto them, telling them that there could be no atonement made for the sins of men, but every man fared according to the management of the creature; therefore every man prospered according to his genius, and that every man conquered according to his strength; and whatsoever a man did was no crime."
Alma 30:14-15, 17


In this scripture Korihor, the anti-Christ, is talking. he is ridiculing Christ and the people who follow him. There are a couple of things that are interesting to me here... first, Korihor says that you can't know anything that you don't see. I hear that, this is *exactly* why I don't believe in North Dakota. psh. anyway... there is obviously other evidence that is valuable. Sometimes it is harder to figure things out God's way... feelings are hard to trust sometimes, and when you have conflicting feelings, what do you do? It takes practice. even just using our ears, we have to learn to filter out certain sounds, and background noise, so that we can focus on who we are talking to, or the specific thing that we want to hear. It is harder to hear God... and harder to see God. But the evidence is still there, and still valid.
I think the last verse is interesting because we believe this sometimes. We believe that people prosper according to their genius, and conquer according to their strength... the management of our bodies... our minds, our physical strength, is our frame of reference here, and we tend to discount spiritual things, because they aren't sensed by the body. The management of our spirits is just as important, if not more... and people prosper and conquer according to spiritual things as well. Physical and spiritual are linked in a very real way, and affect each other incredibly. I think that we tend to forget that.