“Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.” — C.S. Lewis
The Gospel Kingdom, pp. 274-275 “You will see the day that Zion will be far ahead of the outside world in everything pertaining to learning of every kind as we are today in regard to religious matters.” — John Taylor
Also see Journal of Discourses 21:100. Reported by George F. Gibbs, delivered at Ephraim, San Pete County, Utah, April 13, 1879.
James 4:6 “But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
1 Corinthians 8:2 “And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.”
This is another example of how the Church has proven itself wrong.
The sad thing about it is how those who listened to this man believed him then just as they believe their claims today.
Believing in a pantheon of polygamous gods doesn’t mean you’re advanced. Mankind has done this since the beginning.
While it’s still today tell a Mormon that Jesus died for us because of our sinful nature. It doesn’t matter how smart we are we still need the blood of Jesus to wash away our sins! Remember, God doesn’t look at anything but the heart of man.
1 Samuel 16:7 “But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.”
With Love in Christ —
Michelle
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