Twenty-Seven (1832)(^35) SNS, 37–8, 41–2, 63–5, 81.
(^36) See Genesis, chapter 3; HR, chapter 5; PGP, Moses 6:48.
(^37) John 14:26.
(^38) Matthew 3:11; BOM, 3 Nephi 9:20.
(^39) BOM, 3 Nephi, chapters 12, 13, and 14.
(^40) D&C, 84:57.
(^41) Galatians 5:18; 1 John 2:27.
(^42) D&C, 27:5 24:1.
(^43) PGP, Moses 7:18.
(^44) BOM, 2 Nephi 25:23–30.
(^45) TSP, 41:64–89.
(^46) There is no mention in any other D&C section that this condemnation has been lifted. Ezra
Taft Benson, LDS Church President from 1985–1994, also acknowledged this condemnation, and
stated that it was still in effect. (See Ezra Taft Benson, “Cleansing the Inner Vessel,” Ensign, May 1986:
4–7). See also D&C, 105:3–4.
Benson’s predecessor, Spencer W. Kimball, was aware of this condemnation when he said, “I
have had many people ask me through the years, ‘When do you think we will get the balance of the
Book of Mormon records?’ And I have said, ‘How many in the congregation would like to read the
sealed portion of the plates?’ And almost always there is a 100-percent response. And then I ask the
same congregation, ‘How many of you have read the part that has been opened to us?’ And there are
many who have not read the Book of Mormon, the unsealed portion. We are quite often looking for
the spectacular, the unobtainable. I have found many people who want to live the higher laws
when they do not live the lower laws” (The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, ed. Edward L. Kimball
[Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1982] 531, emphasis added).
(^47) D&C, 105:5.
(^48) Joseph’s exact words of this occasion as they were given in his interviews with this author.
(^49) D&C, 84:1.
(^50) D&C, 52:2–3, 42; 54:8.
(^51) BOM, 3 Nephi 17:14.
(^52) D&C, 84:43.
(^53) D&C, 84:98–102; Revelation 15:3.
(^54) See BOM, 1 Nephi 14:14; 15:14; 2 Nephi 6:13, 17; 29:5; 30:2; Mormon 3:21; 8:15, 21.
(^55) See DHC, 2:209–17; D&C, 107 (28 March 1835).
(^56) BOM, Moroni 10:4.
(^57) BOM, 3 Nephi 26:6–10.
(^58) HR, chapter 14.
(^59) Genesis 2:17; BOM, Alma 12:23; PGP, Moses 3:17; Abraham 5:13; Compare JST, Genesis 2:22.
(^60) BOM, 2 Nephi 2:25.
(^61) See “Human Reality—Who We Are and Why We Exist!” 29 May 2011
http://humanreality.org/.
(^62) “Pledge of Allegiance,” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 28 May 2011, Wikimedia Foundation,
Inc., 29 May 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance.
(^63) This is the general consensus of most Americans. “Yesterday—Independence Day—we
celebrated the greatest nation in the history of the world, the United States of America. I believe our
great Republic is truly a gift from God almighty. ...The result was a nation which has long served as
a beacon of hope, opportunity and freedom to those who have none. Now, we are entrusted with the
stewardship of this great gift from God known as the United States of America. (Frank Williams,
“Celebrating the greatest nation in the history of the world,” A Frank Discussion, 6 July 2006, Frank
Williams, 29 May 2011 http://frankwilliams.info/?p=144.)