Jeremiah 17:9 "The human heart is most deceitful and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?"
How can you prove the book of mormon reliable by a burning feeling in your heart when the heart is above the most deceitful?
2006-08-29 17:38:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Heart
Deut. 4: 29 if thou seek him with all thy heart.
Deut. 6: 5 love the Lord thy God with all thine heart.
Deut. 11: 18 lay up these my words in your heart.
Deut. 30: 14 (Rom. 10: 8) word is very nigh . . . in thy heart.
Deut. 32: 46 Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify.
Josh. 2: 11 heard these things, our hearts did melt.
1 Sam. 7: 3 prepare your hearts unto the Lord.
1 Sam. 13: 14 (Acts 13: 22) Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart.
1 Sam. 16: 7 man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
1 Kgs. 3: 9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart.
Ezra 7: 10 Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law.
Ps. 24: 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart.
Ps. 44: 21 he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Ps. 55: 21 smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.
Ps. 64: 6 both the inward thought . . . and the heart, is deep.
Ps. 69: 32 your heart shall live that seek God.
Ps. 77: 6 I commune with mine own heart.
Ps. 78: 37 their heart was not right with him.
Ps. 147: 3 He healeth the broken in heart.
Prov. 2: 2 apply thine heart to understanding.
Prov. 3: 3 write them upon the table of thine heart.
Prov. 3: 5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart.
Prov. 6: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart.
Prov. 6: 25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart.
Prov. 13: 12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
Prov. 15: 13 merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
Prov. 17: 3 Lord trieth the hearts.
Prov. 17: 22 merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
Prov. 21: 2 Lord pondereth the hearts.
Prov. 23: 7 as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Eccl. 11: 9 let thy heart cheer thee.
Isa. 1: 5 whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Isa. 6: 10 make the heart of this people fat.
Isa. 29: 13 have removed their heart far from me.
Isa. 51: 7 people in whose heart is my law.
Jer. 11: 20 triest the reins and the heart.
Jer. 31: 33 (Heb. 8: 10; Heb. 10: 16) write it in their hearts.
Ezek. 11: 19 (Ezek. 36: 26) take the stony heart out . . . give them a heart of flesh.
Ezek. 18: 31 (Ezek. 36: 26) make you a new heart and a new spirit.
Ezek. 20: 16 their heart went after their idols.
Hosea 4: 11 wine and new wine take away the heart.
Joel 2: 13 rend your heart, and not your garments.
Mal. 4: 6 turn the heart of the fathers to the children.
Matt. 5: 8 Blessed are the pure in heart.
Matt. 5: 28 committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Matt. 6: 21 treasure is, there will your heart be.
Matt. 9: 4 (Mark 2: 8) think ye evil in your hearts.
Matt. 11: 29 I am meek and lowly in heart.
Matt. 13: 19 (Mark 4: 15; Luke 8: 12) which was sown in his heart.
Matt. 15: 19 (Mark 7: 21) out of the heart proceed evil thoughts.
Luke 2: 51 his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Luke 6: 45 of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Luke 8: 15 good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart.
Luke 16: 15 God knoweth your hearts.
Luke 24: 32 Did not our heart burn within us.
John 12: 40 blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart.
John 14: 1 let not your heart be troubled.
Acts 2: 37 they were pricked in their heart.
Acts 4: 32 that believed were of one heart and of one soul.
Acts 5: 33 (Acts 7: 54) they were cut to the heart.
Rom. 2: 15 shew the work of the law written in their hearts.
Rom. 5: 5 love of God is shed abroad in our hearts.
Rom. 8: 27 he that searcheth the hearts knoweth.
Rom. 10: 10 with the heart man believeth unto righteousness.
1 Cor. 2: 9 neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared.
2 Cor. 3: 3 written . . . in fleshy tables of the heart.
2 Cor. 3: 15 vail is upon their heart.
Gal. 4: 6 sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts.
Eph. 3: 17 Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.
Eph. 4: 18 because of the blindness of their heart.
Eph. 5: 19 (Col. 3: 16) singing . . . in your heart to the Lord.
Col. 3: 22 in singleness of heart, fearing God.
Heb. 4: 12 discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
James 4: 8 sinners, and purify your hearts.
1 Pet. 1: 22 love one another with a pure heart.
1 Pet. 3: 4 let it be the hidden man of the heart.
1 Pet. 3: 15 sanctify the Lord God in your hearts.
1 Jn. 3: 20 heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart.
Rev. 2: 23 I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts.
Apply your verse in your life, and I will apply these in mine.
2006-08-29 17:42:49 · answer #1 · answered by Woody 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I can't prove it to anyone but myself, nor would I want to. A person must have their own personal testimony of the gospel.
I totally agree, men's hearts can lead them to make wrong choices. Especially when it is only the "man" making the decision...
The Holy Ghost, the Spirit of the Lord, is the "burning" sensation you are talking about and he cannot lie. For me, it is more of a peaceful and wonderful happy feeling of knowing without a doubt the Book of Mormon is the most true and correct book on the earth. The Lord would not lead us astray, He loves us.
There are only 2 spirits a person can feel, one is the Lord's and one is Satan's.
Consider verse 5 before that:
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
I trust in the Lord and the Holy Ghost to show me the right way and help me make correct choices.
2006-08-30 12:33:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is not my heart in which I trust. You are distorting what Mormons believe. What I trust is the sure witness of the Holy Ghost, as demonstrated by my heart burning within me. That is the experience I had the first time I read the Book of Mormon, and it has been repeated on countless occasions, when I’ve read the Bible, or heard a prophet speak.
More revealing than the reference you’ve twisted out of context is the clear testimony of those who spent some time with the resurrected Christ. They exclaimed, “Did not our heart burn within us, while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the scriptures?”
See, the Holy Bible says that if you’re having a spiritual experience, your heart can burn within you. I know that the Bible speaks the truth.
Been there, done that.
2006-08-30 20:15:44 · answer #3 · answered by Larry L 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How can you trust your eyes if sometimes(under the influence) lie to us. how are you sure that you aren't high, right now and that my words are only a figment of your imagination.
You just know, right? Well, I just know. actually I don't "just know" I "DO Know." that and if a human heart is so deceitful then why is it that 1 Samuel 16:7 say in the last part of it...
the Lord looketh on the heart.
Why does God deterime what we are like by looking at the deceitful part of us? Why the Evil part? should he not see the good?
2006-08-30 13:33:59 · answer #4 · answered by sunny12rms 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You should read the scripture from The Book of Mormon.
Moroni 10:3-5
3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.
4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.
The burning feeling you talk about refers to the feeling you get when the power of the Holy Ghost is manifested to you. You must ask sincerely, to receive that precious gift.
2006-08-29 18:14:51 · answer #5 · answered by Juli 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
how does anyone prove that a religious book is reliable?
There is nothing in the Book of Mormon that is contrary to Christ's teachings. The only difference is that they believe that Christ came to the Americas. Certainly I think it is possible for the Son of God to do this.
2006-08-29 17:44:21 · answer #6 · answered by jimdan2000 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
im not a mormon but i do think that jesus may have came to america after his resurection during his 50 day on earth before he was taken into heaven.
2006-08-29 18:46:28 · answer #7 · answered by Beeman 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why do you care?
Do you want to break someone's faith in their church?
How can you prove the Bible... at all?
nothing in life is really "proven."
2006-08-29 17:44:04 · answer #8 · answered by Ether 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
"If thy heart offend thee, cut it from thine breast and cast it into the burning sulphur." (Curly 12:5)
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk...
2006-08-29 17:48:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
LOL.
Irony of the week award goes to you.
2006-08-29 17:42:26 · answer #10 · answered by wideawake42 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋