2 Nephi 32:4 Wherefore, now after I have spoken these words, if he cannot understand them it will be because ye ask not, neither do you knock; wherefore, ye are not brought into the light, but must perish. Other people can only do so much to bring us to Christ. The ultimate responsibility falls to us, each individually.
It's interesting too that the problem starts once we've heard the words of Christ. After that, failing to understand is the fault of the listener, not the speaker. This is interesting because it is counter to so much of what we learn in public speaking, where failure to communicate is the fault of the speaker more than the listener. The perception that we must "dumb down" our language so that everyone can understand it is endemic in our society. My blog offers me suggestions for ways to avoid using uncommon words in the interest of broader understanding; in PowerPoint decks at work, big specific words are often derided as posturing and recommend to be replaced with simpler words. And yet here, we have the opposite. The message will not be changing, and if you don't understand it, you need to ask, because it's not going anywhere.
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