Can We Know the Truth of All Things?

Can we know the truths of things? I mean really know? I say yes, because there are things that I know that I know that are true. Many would argue that I don’t really know that I know, but I will say it again that I know. People believe that you can believe things but that you still don’t really know, it is just faith.

I know that there is a God. I know that Jesus Christ is His son. I know that the Bible and Book of Mormon are true scripture from God. I know that I exist. I know that I am a child of God. I know that God created all things. I know that He loves me. I know that I existed before this life. I know that I will exist after this life and that I will live forever. I know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the true church which is directed by Jesus Christ himself. I know that there is a prophet of God on the earth who, under the direction of Jesus Christ and through revelation leads the church.

So how do I know these things?

There is a scripture that can sum up my experience. It is found in The Book of Mormon, in the book of Moroni chapter 10 versus 3-5:

“Behold, I would exhort you that when ya shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord has been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ya shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.

“And when ya shall receive these things, I would exhort you that you 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 by the power of the Holy Ghost.

“And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.”

One night when I was fourteen I sat in my room about to go to bed and had the thought that I didn’t know if The Book of Mormon really was true even though I had grown up in The Church. I knelt down and addressed my Father in Heaven and He sent down the most beautiful and indescribable feeling that filled me with light and an absolute knowledge that The Book of Mormon was true.
Through the Spirit I have come to know many truths. God has given me a way that I can know with a surety what is true and what is not. It is not by the ways of man that I know these things to be true. Men have the need to have proof. Proof that God exists and everything else. The problem with the way that men seek truth and facts is that there is error in our methods. Some will prove one thing to be true then decades later it will turn out to be false. Take Pluto for example. It is in all textbooks that it is a planet and now they say it is not.

The Book of Mormon is believe to be fiction because there is no “proof” that the people who wrote is existed or came to live on the Americas the way that it is recorded in the book. There have been things found that mirror things in The Book of Mormon as well as sacred oral histories about a white god coming from the heavens that are as old as the book themselves and yet the account of Christ coming to the Americas in The Book of Mormon are not credited as true.

Mosiah 4:9

“Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all things which the Lord can comprehend.”

We might not comprehend all things right now, but God has given us a way that we can know all things. It’s possible because God knows all things and is willing to impart to us the knowledge that will make it easier for us to become like Him and return to Him someday.

It is a lie that we can believe something is true but never really know something. I don’t even understand that statement although I heard someone say it the other day. There are two scriptures that come to mind about faith.

Hebrews 11:1

“Now faith is the substance (assurance) of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

Alma 32:21

“And now as I said concerning faith– faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true.”
So faith is to believe in something that is true even though it is not seen.

So there is faith, which isn’t a perfect knowledge. I surely don’t have a perfect knowledge of things, but I know they are true.

The great thing is that one day I will see God. Even seeing Him I know that I will not comprehend all things, but I am on an eternal journey and will forever learn and grow through my God. And I am so grateful that in this life He has given me His spirit to rely to show me the way back to Him.