\u201cPresident Thomas S. Monson: \u2018The Power of the Book of Mormon'\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Given that address, I think it may be as long\u00a0as several weeks before I next see the claim that President Monson never testifies to the truth of the Book of Mormon. \u00a0Maybe.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 From time to time, I\u2019ve read comments from critics of the Church \u2014 particularly, I think, from disaffected and cynical former believers \u2014 noting that President Thomas S. Monson never testifies\u00a0to the truth of the Book of Mormon. \u00a0This is, they say, significant. \u00a0It may even reflect his own clandestine disbelief in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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