Elder Christofferson Just Changed How We Use Discernment… (We See Like Children)

ELDER CHRISTOFFERSON JUST EXPOSED A BLIND SPOT WE ALL HAVE… 👁️⚠️ What if you are looking directly at the truth—and still cannot see it? Elder D. Todd Christofferson has released a fascinating new message about discerning truth in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, social media, manufactured images, persuasive algorithms, political extremism, and spiritual deception. But in the middle of his message, he tells a humorous family story involving his eighteen-month-old son and a graham cracker. On the surface, it seems almost insignificant. Yet hidden inside that story is a deeply humbling lesson about the limitations of human perception. His toddler understood the difference between one piece and two pieces—but he could not understand that breaking one cracker in half had not created more cracker. Developmental psychologists describe this general limitation through the concept of conservation of quantity. Young children can focus so completely on one visible feature that they cannot yet account for the whole. They may be staring directly at reality while lacking the developmental capacity to interpret it correctly. And that raises a sobering question: How often are we doing the same thing? 🤯 As adults, we assume that our experience, education, logic, and critical-thinking abilities allow us to see things as they really are. We believe that if a conclusion seems obvious to us, any reasonable person should arrive at the same conclusion. But what if we cannot see nearly as clearly as we imagine? Compared with an omniscient God—who sees every motive, consequence, possibility, hidden influence, and eternal outcome—are we sometimes as limited as a toddler trying to understand volume? This episode explores one of the most important principles of discernment: possessing real information does not guarantee that we will interpret it correctly. A person can see something genuine, quote an accurate fact, or possess part of the evidence and still reach a deeply mistaken conclusion. Pride makes this even more dangerous. It convinces us that our partial perspective is complete. It manifests through political bias, prejudice, fear, resentment, tribal loyalty, and the assumption that anyone who disagrees with us must be stupid, dishonest, or morally corrupt. Elder Christofferson offers a better way. He points us toward Moroni’s promise that “by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things,” while also emphasizing the Lord’s instruction to study matters out in our minds. Revelation and critical thinking are not enemies. We need both. 📖🔥 This message could not be more urgent. We are living through what Nephi described as a “great division among the people.” A war of words surrounds us, and those words increasingly spill into extremism, hatred, and real political violence. Technology can now manufacture voices, images, arguments, and apparent evidence with frightening precision. Our ability to discern truth may be more important now than at any previous moment in our lives. But this message is also about grace. What if another person genuinely cannot yet see what seems obvious to us? That does not make truth relative. The cracker did not increase simply because the child misunderstood it. Reality remained unchanged. But his misunderstanding called for patience—not contempt. All of us have blind spots. All of us are still developing. All of us need experience, correction, revelation, and the patient guidance of an all-knowing Father. Perhaps we should be slower to condemn, quicker to question our assumptions, and humble enough to admit that there may be realities we are not yet capable of perceiving. Because in Elder Christofferson’s story, we are not the all-knowing parents. Before God, all of us are still the children. 👁️🙏 Watch as we explore Elder Christofferson’s remarkable message, the psychology of childhood perception, the dangers of technological deception, the role of the Holy Ghost, and why learning to see as God sees may be essential preparation for the return of Jesus Christ. Please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and tell me in the comments: Have you ever realized that something you once considered obvious was actually one of your blind spots? #ElderChristofferson #LDSChurch #ChurchOfJesusChrist #LatterDaySaints #JesusChrist #HolyGhost #SpiritualDiscernment #TruthAndDeception #ArtificialIntelligence #SocialMedia #CriticalThinking #BookOfMormon #Moroni10 #SecondNephi #GreatDivision #SecondComing #CovenantPath #FaithInChrist #ChristianYouTube #LDSYouTube #SpiritualBlindness #Humility #GraceForOthers #ThingsAsTheyReallyAre #RiseZion