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| − | ==Question: What are Mormon "faith promoting rumors"?==
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| − | ===Frequently Latter-day Saints receive email messages with faith-promoting stories that are difficult or impossible to verify===
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| − | Frequently Latter-day Saints receive email messages with faith-promoting stories that are difficult or impossible to verify. This article includes examples of these "urban legends," or other bits of LDS historical folklore that are difficult or impossible to verify.
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| − | ===Never take faith-promoting stories circulated in chain email messages at face value. Check the sources carefully===
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| − | {{Epigraph|“I would earnestly urge that no such idle gossip be spread abroad without making certain as to whether or not it is true....As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are in broadcasting these sensational stories, or dreams, or visions, some alleged to have been given to Church leaders, past or present, supposedly from some person's private diary, without first verifying the report with proper Church authorities.” - Harold B. Lee<ref>{{Ensign1|author=Harold B. Lee|article=[https://www.lds.org/ensign/1973/01/admonitions-for-the-priesthood-of-god?lang=eng Admonitions for the Priesthood of God]|date=January 1973|start=105}}</ref>}}
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| − | As early Church historian and member of the Seventy B.H. Roberts noted:
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| − | I find my own heart strengthened in the truth by getting rid of the untruth, the spectacular, the bizarre, as soon as I learn that it is based upon worthless testimony.<ref>B.H. Roberts, original letter in Church Archives; see ''Deseret Evening News'' (26 June 1926); cited by Truman G. Madsen, ''Defender of the Faith: The B. H. Roberts Story'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, 1980), 363. {{GL1|url=http://gospelink.com/library/contents/728}}</ref>
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