Observation, Reason, Faith, and Revelation | Dale G. Renlund | August 2023

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Observation, reason, and faith facilitate revelation and enable the Holy Ghost to be a reliable, trustworthy, and beloved companion. Dale G. Renlund, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered this Education Week devotional address on August 22, 2023. You can access the talk here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the recent speeches podcast presented by BYU speeches
0:05.0	featuring inspiring new devotional and forums given each week on BYU campus.
0:10.0	Be sure to check out our other podcasts by searching BYU speeches wherever you get your podcasts or by visiting
0:17.2	speeches dot BYU.edU slash podcasts.
0:22.3	Thank you brothers and sisters for being slash podcasts.
0:23.4	Thank you, brothers and sisters, for being here.
0:25.9	Thank you for coming to Education Week.
0:28.6	Thank you for your faith, your faithfulness, for your examples, and your desires to be. your dichotomies. For instance, we might believe that observation or reason are the only
0:46.5	valid ways to learn truth. Or we might believe that observation and reason undermine faith to such an extent
0:56.1	that they should have no role in religious life.
1:00.5	This is a false dichotomy because observation and reason works synergistically with faith.
1:08.0	Faith without works will not amplify itself. Faith will only grow by observation and reasoning
1:16.9	coupled with other spiritual work. In addition, observation, reason, and faith are often prerequisites not only to receive personal
1:28.0	revelation, but to understand that revelation.
1:38.0	First, let's look at how observation alone can be unreliable, especially when we're unaware of the external conditions
1:42.0	affecting our observations.
1:45.2	Technologies that use computer-generated images and videos are rapidly evolving and can
1:51.1	portray believable material. A new story in May 2023 used an artificial
1:58.3	intelligence generated photo to document an explosion at the Pentagon. This caused the stock markets to dip
2:06.7	until the bogus nature of the photo was made known. And to ingratiate myself with this audience, I show you a photo depicting me
2:18.4	receiving a diploma from the BYU president himself in 1976. I like this image, but it is an artificial
2:32.2	intelligence generated image.
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