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This devotional address entitled, Knowing what you believe, believing what you know,

was given on May 19th of 1998 by Dennis B. Noyenshwander,

then a member of the first quorum of the 70 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I am grateful for the beautiful hymns we both sung and heard this morning and pray that the

spirit of those hymns and the music will carry over into the remarks I wish to share with you.

Corey Hoare, as we read in the 30th chapter of Alma, had made many untrue allegations about the church

and was brought before Alma, who listened but was not challenged by Cory Hor's claims.

Alma recognized the allegations to be false, not only because he knew the doctrines of the

church and the history of his people, but because he had unshakable confidence in his own

personal experiences with the gospel.

It is a good thing for us to know what we believe. We should know and be familiar with

the doctrines, ordinances, covenants, and teachings of the Church and its modern-day prophets.

It is very important that we all know and understand the basic tenets of our belief.

Equally important, however, to knowing what we believe is believing what we know.

Believing what we know has to do with recognizing, trusting, and learning from our own spiritual experiences.

Such experiences are an essential part of our mortal probation and spiritual education.

One of the purposes of our mortal probation is to distinguish good from evil.

The prophets have warned us against confusing the two.

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