I had been considering two things together. 1) C.S. Lewis giving easy answers to difficult questions and 2) Joseph Smith giving an easy way to determine an essential thing. It got me thinking on a new direction. I have lots of difficult questions and I always quickly accept what answer I get as being truth, usually, it feels true and can be doctrinally proven, which means if you accept a doctrine as true then, anything that comes with it is true, plain and simple. It is like choosing a friend like C.S.Lewis and then just accepting what he says. For example, one time in a class a woman explained that she loved the Church so much because ot made all of her choices were already made for her. It troubled me a bit, to the point that I was troubled enough to understand what she meant.
I marveled at the revelation Joseph Smith recieved in discerning a spirit whether or not it is God sent. My conclusion is that this was a revelation of so much more. It taught us how to discern anything was true from God himself.
It was said in the movie Shadowlands, "you already have the answer, so what is it?" I thought, we have a way to tell if a person is a truthful person because They are unaware of there being a test, right? It is much like asking a handshake of a messenger. You ask a difficult question that you already have an answer for to see how they answer and in that manner you can know how to judge an answer to a question that you do not know.
So what we have is a metjod of discerning, not as much a solution that can not be known and worked around by a cunning, knowledgeable adversary.
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