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\"Light — Light pierces the clouds.
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John 15:26-27<\/a><\/p>\n
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Religious skeptics often mock the Latter-day Saint idea and claim of spiritual witness. \u00a0That\u2019s scarcely surprising.<\/p>\n
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What does surprise, though, is to hear such mockery from professedly believing Christians. \u00a0Have they not read these verses? \u00a0Do they not believe them?<\/p>\n
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