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Just a side question: What makes you believe the bible is true? This is a serious question, open to any LDS person:
I am told that you pray to discover that the Book of Mormon is true, and than if it is, you get a "burning in your bosom".
What gauge do you use to determine if the bible is true?

I can't speak for everyone, the "Burning in your bosom" is a biblical quotation about the disciples on the road to Emmaus, and how the Lord spoke to them and they didn't know it was him and later when they found out, they said they should have know because they had a burning in their bosom.

As for witnesses, some people have the burning bosom, some people have visions, some people have other experiences. God know what is the perfect communication for you and that is what he'll use. For me it was very specific, and undeniable, God knows that I know what he told me.

I used the same test on both, and I talk about it on my page at FR, I also have posted My Testimony on my page at FR.

Delph

I can't speak for everyone, the "Burning in your bosom" is a biblical quotation about the disciples on the road to Emmaus, and how the Lord spoke to them and they didn't know it was him and later when they found out, they said they should have know(n) because they had a burning in their bosom.

Well BIBLE students; is the above BIBLICAL or not??

Luke 24:13-35 (King James Version)

¹³And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.

¹⁴And they talked together of all these things which had happened.

¹⁵And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.

¹⁶But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.

¹⁷And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?

¹⁸And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?

¹⁹And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:

²⁰And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.

²¹But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.

²²Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;

²³And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.

²⁴And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.

²⁵Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

²⁶Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

²⁷And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

²⁸And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.

²⁹But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.

³⁰And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.

³¹And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.

³²And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

³³And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,

³⁴Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.

³⁵And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread. (NOT from any BURNING!)