‘The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?’ Jeremiah 17:9
March 14 — Brigham Young: Mankind is Naturally Good. Journal of Discourses 9:305 “…It is fully proved in all the revelations that God has ever given to mankind that they naturally love and admire righteousness, justice and truth more than they do evil. …It is, however, universally received by professors of religion as a Scriptural doctrine that man is naturally opposed to God. This is not so.
Paul says, in his Epistle to the Corinthians, “But the natural man receiveth not the things of God,” but I say it is the unnatural “man that receiveth not the things of God.”
Paul, in another place, says, “if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost…
That which was, is, and will continue to endure is more natural than that which will pass away and be no more. The natural man is of God. …” — Brigham Young, June 15, 1862 [emp. added]
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Psalm 51:5 “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
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It didn’t matter the Lord repeatedly warned people in His word we’re separated from Him because of our behavior. Brigham decided God is wrong.
In addition to disagreeing with Paul twice (1 Cor. 2:14, 2 Cor. 4:3-4) he couldn’t find anything wrong with himself.
Unfortunately, that was the scenario I found myself in before the Lord mercifully dragged me out of the lies.
I am 100% convinced there are countless Mormons who are living the same lie I did all those years ago.
Please pray for those who don’t believe what the Lord has to say!
With Love in Christ –
Michelle ✟
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What about, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”?
It’s amazing what happens when we choose to not believe. Sigh…