Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Mormon stories podcast. I am your host John Delin. It is April 27th

2023 and we are now on episode 43 of our

series titled

discussions where we bring on Mike

from the website LDS discussions.com and do our best to analyze Mormon church truth claims as

objectively and as thoughtfully and as dispassionately as we can today. We are going to be covering a really important topic and the topic is

spiritual witnesses or

Mormon testimonies. It's kind of an epistemology discussion about how do we know things and

joining us as always on the panel to

share with us his wisdom as an adult convert to the Mormon church who learned

more about the church after he left is Mike, the founder of the LDS discussions.com website. Hey, Mike. Hey, everybody. How's it going? Thanks for joining us. How you feeling today, Mike? Good. This is a goofy topic. So we're going to do our best to

kind of go through it and just kind of go through at least from my perspective the elements of spiritual witnesses and

and so I know if you're watching this as a believer, I'll just get out of the way. This one's a tricky one. It's a difficult one, but hopefully as you watch it, you'll understand that we're not necessarily trying to

tell you that what you experienced didn't really happen

because this one this is an episode that when I did the overview on the website, I remember just being like, uh, this is just kind of a goofy one to do it. It made me feel kind of

weird because I have to relive some of my own experiences. But at the same time, we'll get through it together and hopefully at the end of it, we'll all come out at

least, even if you don't agree with what we're saying, at least understanding where we're coming from. Absolutely. We're going to try and answer the question.

Are emotions reliable, you know, things to base beliefs upon and or evidence? Are our emotions evidence upon which you can base a world view? And I think that's important.

Really quickly for those who are just dropping into this episode without having watched the previous 42 episodes,

we have created a podcast feed entitled LDS discussions that on Spotify is both audio and video. Also on Apple podcasts, you can you can just consume the LDS discussions

podcast series independent of the Mormon stories podcast feed and you can share it with others independent of the Mormon stories podcast feed

in those ways. There's also a playlist on the Mormon stories podcast YouTube channel. There's a LDS discussions playlist where you can watch all these

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