Twenty years after the Mormons arrived in Salt Lake City Brigham Young delivered an eye opening sermon containing four main heresies we’ll take a quick look at today. Why the Saints didn’t kick these guys to the curb is a wonder indeed…
Heresy #1 –
Journal of Discourses 12:66-67; “…right here in the Quorum of the Twelve, if you ask one of its members…do you believe in the existence of a personage called God? “No, I do not,” says this Apostle. So you see there are schisms in our day…
Just think…a so-called apostle of God who doesn’t believe in God. Oh, the wonders never cease! If this was a well known fact amongst Brigham’s hierarchy why didn’t he unseat this nameless apostle?
What lessons did he teach to those around him and how were they influenced?
Ah but wait, there’s more…
Heresy #2 –
‘…We have another one in the Quorum of the Twelve who believes that infants actually have the spirits of some who have formerly lived on the earth, and that this is their resurrection…’
Yikes! What do you say to that other than ‘blasphemy’?! If this isn’t demonic, nothing is.
Heresy #3 –
‘…We have another one of these Apostles, right in this Quorum of the Twelve…has been preaching…the Savior was nothing more than a good man, and that his death had nothing to do with your salvation or mine…’
I’m not sure why Brigham would have a problem with this unnamed heretic since LDS doctrine espouses the same rhetoric.
‘…if the ancient Apostles believed doctrines as absurd as these, why were they not handed down to after generations that they might avoid the dilemma, the vortex, the whirlpool of destruction and folly?…’
The reason why is because they didn’t preach garbage like this Mr. Young.
Heresy #4 –
‘We will not say what they did or did not believe and teach, but they did differ one from another, and they would not visit each other. This was not through the perfection of the gospel, but through the weakness of man.” – Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, June 23, 1867
Why wouldn’t he say what they preached?
Is it because they didn’t preach lies?
Where in the Bible does it say the apostles wouldn’t visit each other?
Where does the gospel hint at any division amongst the apostles? The Church’s entire foundation is built upon the theory that before the apostles died, they went through a period of infighting, died and then the gospel fizzled out within a generation.
Granted, at the beginning of Paul’s ministry there was some hesitation on the part of a few apostles (Acts 9:26), but otherwise, there was cohesion amongst the apostles.
It’s interesting Brigham would say such a thing in light of two sermons he gave in 1853 and 1854. In 1853 he said he hadn’t read the Bible in years because he didn’t understand it and then a year later he said he refused to believe the fairytale stories from the Bible his mother used to read to him as a child. (Journal of Discourses 2:6-7).
How would Brigham know if the apostles fought amongst themselves if he hadn’t read the Bible in years and when he did read it, he didn’t understand what it meant?
If what this man said about the Bible is true then God is a liar. Whom do you believe?
Isaiah 40:8; “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”
Didn’t know that quote about the Bible by Brigham Young! and yet, BGEA does not consider the Mormons a cult… yet, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young denied Christ! Astounding.
That it is – astounding indeed! We’ll all be called to answer for our actions or inaction, whatever the case may be. By not denouncing the heresies we’re giving a thumbs up to the wholesale lies they pander. The church of the Laodiceans in Rev. 3:14 comes to mind…
Michelle