Journal of Discourses 3:207 – 208; “I have taught you that the spirit is pure, when it comes into the tabernacle. The tabernacle is subject to sin, but the spirit is not. A great many think 
that the spirits of the children of men, when they enter the tabernacles, are totally depraved; this is a mistake. They are as holy as the angels; the devil has no power to contaminate them, he only contaminated the bodies. When your spirit wishes to worship the Father, and your body is so full of weakness or wickedness, that you feel as though you could not do it, go to and bring your body into subjection; bow the knee and confess that Jesus is the Christ, if it is darker that 10,000 midnights in your minds; say, “I am for the Lord anyhow.” – Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, February 17, 1856
Mark 14:38; “Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.”
Ecclesiastes 7:20; “For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.”
Does the body act independently of the human mind and spirit? If so, how?
How can man sin if his spirit is impervious to sin?
What biblical proof did Mr. Young have to support his theory?
Jeremiah 17:9 says the heart of man is deceitful and all you have to do is look at a history book, or better yet your bible, to get proof of that.
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