Keywords
Book of Mormon, Mormon scripture, Mormon apologetics, B. H. Robert
Abstract
I understand that some doubts have arisen in your mind. I don’t know for sure what they are, but I imagine I have heard them before. Probably I have entertained some of them in my own mind. And perhaps I still harbor some of them myself. I am not going to respond to them in the ways that you may have anticipated. Oh, I will say a few things about why many doubts felt by the previously faithful and faith-filled are ill-founded and misplaced: the result of poor teaching, naïve assumptions, cultural pressures, and outright false doctrines. But my main purpose in writing this letter is not to resolve the uncertainties and perplexities in your mind. I want, rather, to endow them with the dignity and seriousness they deserve. And even to celebrate them. That may sound perverse, but I hope to show you it is not.
Recommended Citation
Givens, Terryl
(2013)
"Letter to a Doubter,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 4, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol4/iss1/8
