This is the reason Elder Corbridge gives for so many leaving the church.
If you have left the LDS church, you have heard this idea expressed many times.
This dismissal can be bewildering.
I have been on both sides.
When, as a believer I watched people leave, I thought they couldn’t possibly have had the experiences that I had. There is no way they could have felt what I felt and still change their minds.
But then I deconstructed my LDS beliefs philosophically and morally.
When I left, I was shocked when people said the same to me. ”Maybe you were never really converted.”
Not just strangers on the internet, but friends and family who had once heard me bear heartfelt testimony.
That’s when I understood that it was a defense mechanism.
If you can believe so strongly and then change your mind, maybe they can too?
And that is a scary thought.
The implication puts the very method of the Holy Ghost in question.
Unless they can shift the burden to you.
How do you see it?
If someone leaves, does it mean they were never really converted?
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