Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Knowledge vs Power

I used to think just “understanding the facts” was the challenge. “Once you know the principles and get the information out there, putting them into practice is relatively easy!”

How naive.

From a child’s perspective, obeying the law of chastity or traveling to the moon seems like child’s play.

Until you try it for real.

This video proves how knowledge without understanding (or faith without works) is insufficient. Knowledge is indeed power, but real knowledge can only be gained by experiential practice.

A testimony is only as good as it what it enables you to do.

4 comments:

  1. But what practical benefit does one gain from this insight that "testimony is only as good as what it enables you to do"?

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  2. Saying "I know God lives" or "this Church is true" is essentially useless unless it changes (or enables) behavior that is different from one that doesn't "know". Knowledge damns as readily as it saves.

    If one trusts in one's knowledge, but doesn't do accordingly, one "believes" in vain.

    Translating knowledge (or testimony) into action is crucial to making knowledge efficacious. The only knowledge which "saves" is knowledge which does. Faith without works is dead.

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  3. Can you give an example of what one does when they have knowledge? Do we have some sort of gauge for what those actions might be?

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