These chapters talk a lot about Satan and his job as the advocate and leading people astray to follow him. It makes me think just how easy his job has become because of the invention of technology and the many things we could use to bless our lives but instead so many use technology to destroy it.
2 Ne 28:22 he saith unto them: I am no devil, for there is none
LeGrand Richards
"I doubt if there was a Christian minister in all the world who would have said there was no devil at the time the Book of Mormon was published in 1830, and yet when a questionnaire was sent out by the Northwestern University School of Religion in 1934 to five hundred Christian ministers, of the five hundred, fifty-four percent, or two hundred and seventy of them, said: 'There is no devil.' Thirty-nine percent, or one hundred and ninety-five, said there would be no judgment day; and eighty percent were opposed to teaching that hell was a place of burning...If the world could just get rid of the devil, probably it would be a different world. They little realize how much his influence and power is being felt.
"...What in the world could the devil, the enemy of all righteousness, desire more than to make our young people think that chastity is outmoded? To accomplish this, he must make them believe there is no devil, and that there is no hell or judgment day. Thus 'he whispereth in their ears, until he grasps them with his awful chains, from whence there is no deliverance.'" (Conference Report, Oct. 1949, p. 51,53) *
Blessing: I am able to make food and I've been blessed with the gift and talent to do so.
2 Ne 28:22 he saith unto them: I am no devil, for there is none
LeGrand Richards
"I doubt if there was a Christian minister in all the world who would have said there was no devil at the time the Book of Mormon was published in 1830, and yet when a questionnaire was sent out by the Northwestern University School of Religion in 1934 to five hundred Christian ministers, of the five hundred, fifty-four percent, or two hundred and seventy of them, said: 'There is no devil.' Thirty-nine percent, or one hundred and ninety-five, said there would be no judgment day; and eighty percent were opposed to teaching that hell was a place of burning...If the world could just get rid of the devil, probably it would be a different world. They little realize how much his influence and power is being felt.
"...What in the world could the devil, the enemy of all righteousness, desire more than to make our young people think that chastity is outmoded? To accomplish this, he must make them believe there is no devil, and that there is no hell or judgment day. Thus 'he whispereth in their ears, until he grasps them with his awful chains, from whence there is no deliverance.'" (Conference Report, Oct. 1949, p. 51,53) *
Blessing: I am able to make food and I've been blessed with the gift and talent to do so.
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