Gordon Monson: You know the LDS Church is true? No, you really don’t, and that’s OK.

Angel Moroni statue tops the Layton Temple. Tribune columnist Gordon Monson says Latter-day Saints certainly can believe their church is true, but they can't really "know" it.

And that’s OK. That’s a part of the LDS Church’s explanation for why humans exist here on this planet, left to live without the ability to see and walk directly with God, to have empirical evidence straight in front of them. Developing faith is, as the doctrine goes, the reason for this “Beats me exactly why it was set up that way, why that is so important, why those elements must be relied upon to prove one’s love for and acquiescence to the Almighty.

A good friend of mine who has long since left this mortal existence, a man who was a church general authority, an individual for whom I had great respect, used to say, “I know that God lives. I know that God lives. I know that God lives. And I know that I know it, too.” The more they say it like that, the more I doubt it, because they can’t know, again, unless the hand of God has tangibly touched them, unless they’ve come face-to-face and conversed with deity. Otherwise, knowledge is off the table. Indeed, someIn a complicated, messy, obfuscated world, finding those first four things in both spiritual and temporal matters is tough enough. There are so many falsehoods taught, so many fabrications pushed, so many outright lies told.

Latter-day Saints often rely on the experiences of others to bolster their own faith. That’s one of the reasons the church holds monthly testimony meetings, Sunday services in which individuals in the congregation bear witness to the veracity of their spiritual leanings. Often this is the setting where those believers proclaim to their fellow parishioners that they believe the church is true, that they have faith that the church is true, or that they know it.

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