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Old November 27th 03, 01:11 AM
Rob Perkins
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:02:40 -0500, Andrew Gideon
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Where do you find faith defined as "interested in the outcome"?


In Mormonism, which rejects much of the common definitions of various
liturgical terms, in favor of stuff that makes a different kind of
sense. Because Mormonism is a minority religion worldwide (something
like 0.1% of the world population) you're not likely to find its
usages in the dictionary, unless the terms are exclusive to it.

One example, if you can get past the 19th-century scriptural-sounding
English, is he

http://scriptures.lds.org/alma/32/21#21

And another, here, which proposes an experiment of sorts on "the
word", interpreted by Mormons to mean pretty much any proposition, but
especially the stuff found in scriptures:

http://scriptures.lds.org/alma/32/26-30#26

Rob