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Flat Earth
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As is generally known, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is set off from all other churches—Christian and non-Christian alike—by many characteristic doctrines and doctrines and teachings. We: hold firmly to the doctrine that the Holy Trinity is made up of three separate and distinct personal Beings—Father, Son, and Holy Ghost—in whose image we ourselves are created, as declared in Genesis 1:27. Notwithstanding the vast majority of civilized people, including nearly all Christians, reject the teaching that God is a personal Being, the truth of the matter is not in the least affected by this rejection. In the fifteenth century the world believed the earth was flat, Columbus, that it was round. Who was right? The claim that Joseph Smith, a fourteen year old boy actually saw and heard two glorious personal Beings—the Father and the Son, who appeared in answer to his humble prayer for wisdom is a basic truth in Mormonism, the validity of which is not affected even though disbelieved by the vast majority of civilized men.
Elder Joseph F. Merrill
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Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Life for the ordinary man is ofttimes frightening and bewildering. There is so much that we mortals fear. There is so much that we do not understand. There is so much that we do not know. When we talk of knowing, we talk of knowledge, and it would be well to ask ourselves what we mean by "knowledge." Knowledge is only our interpretation of the evidence before us. If our interpretation of the evidence is wrong, our knowledge is false. Sometimes, therefore, we make grave errors, for our interpretation of the evidence is wrong. What a shock it is for us to realize that what we once thought we knew—is wrong! This has occurred many times in the history of the earth. Why, the evidence was so plain to those who stated that the earth was flat, that when anyone mentioned that the earth is round, it was a ridiculous thing, and the people just laughed at the idea Yet by the evidence we have today we interpret this to mean that the earth is round, and we claim that previous persons just didn't understand the evidence presented to them. The same thing is true when we talked about the sun revolving around the earth. Why, any man with eyes to see could actually see the sun revolving around the earth! Yet our interpretation of the evidence today is just the reverse of this. So, what we say we know is not always true.
Elder Theodore M. Burton
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Scientists will read of unusual instruments never patented or remade or duplicated, of elements which, without recharging, illuminate dark spaces indefinitely, that at least fifteen hundred years before Columbus these Westerners knew that the earth is round and revolved about the sun, and of a special instrument, not yet equaled even in our own day with all of our laboratories and knowledge, like a round ball, made of brass curious in workmanship, with two spindles, so sensitive that it was not limited to the cardinal points of the compass but would actually give guidance regardless of direction, recording the feelings, emotions, and inner rebellions of men and would function properly only where there was not human, mental, and moral discord. This instrument would point the way to the prevalence of animals to be hunted for food and was operated by faith rather than by electricity or other natural elements—an instrument on which would be writing changed from time to time, plain to read, increasing the understanding of those who read it.
Elder Spencer W. Kimball
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The earth is spherical
President Spencer W. Kimball
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Flat Earth
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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