Mormon Dilemma 580

Christianity in Dense Darkness

Journal of Discourses 8:209; “The Devil has the mastery of the earth: he has corrupted it, and has corrupted the children of men. He has led them in evil until they are almost entirely ruined, and are so far from God that they neither know Him nor his influence, and have almost lost sight of everything that pertains to eternity. This darkness is more prevalent, more dense, among the people of Christendom, than it is among the heathen. They have lost sight of all that is great and glorious—of all principles that pertain to life eternal.” – Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, October 14, 1860

Ephesians 3:20-21; “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, 21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.”

How could Christ Jesus receive glory in the church throughout all the ages if there was a Great Apostasy and Christianity was merely surviving in dense darkness? 

What about Matthew 16:18 when Jesus told us the gates of hell wouldn’t prevail against the Church?

Where is Jesus’ power if He can’t hold a church together? And if He’s powerless then why are the Mormons following Him?