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You do make a valid point. Faith is a personal. For those who have faith hearing and sharing can help sustain through trials and tribulations or for those still taking baby steps that are seeking. For those who are unsure they can seek out through others and sometimes help find answers to questions that they may have. It still comes down to personal faith and seeking the truth when they urge comes over someone. If we have seen things along the way or have had spiritual experiences (gifts) it does make us more adamant in our beliefs. Those treasures of heaven (gifts) are kept safely hidden if we would waste them and if we live our lives as carnal beings we could easily be wasteful. If we wasted heavenly gifts and were awakened fully we may have a very difficult time overcoming our own shame. Dying in our shame is not what the Lord wants for us either.Direct, personal revelation is the only valid basis for faith. Otherwise, information that comes to one merely through perceptions has no more validity for another person than that person's own perceptual acquisitions. Why do people believe in Mohammed or Jesus? The vast majority are not aware of it, but their 'faith' is just a choice. They heard about their hero and 'believe'. But what is the difference between the channels of information that led to their 'faith'? There is none. Only someone who knows he or she has had a religious experience has a genuine faith, and has to know that his/her faith is entirely personal. One cannot expect others to conform.
edit: Anyone can only share what they know to the level of their own understanding.
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