LDS Priesthood Unveiled Appendix 1good of the human race. Everything that happened was necessary in order to allow a fair
experience of mortality for the human beings who own this solar system.
Joseph relates,
It saddened my heart to see Oliver suffer because of his lack of
understanding. My mandate would not allow me to soothe his concerns with
the gentle words of truth and light. Greater intelligence would have given
him a clearer knowledge of the eternal nature of things. The hardest part of
my calling was to see those who had supported me for so many years turn
against me in anger.Joseph could not divulge the real truth about what he was doing. If he had done so
from the beginning, there would have never been a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints and the necessary function it provided as a stumbling block to certain of our mortal
siblings and the world. The Book of Mormon would have been placed upon the shelf of
history as its enemies and critics would have preferred—as original American mythology.
The people would have never accepted that the Bible was corrupted and that God was
simply an advanced human being living on a planet in another galaxy. There would have
been no other choice or alternative for those with biblically based belief systems except the
foolishness of the religions that existed at that time—the vain and foolish philosophies of
men mingled with scripture.
Instead, because of what Joseph Smith did, a religion such as the modern LDS
Church was given a foundation. This particular church has now evolved into one of the
most powerful and richest religions, per capita, of any organization in the entire world—
including those both inside and outside of a religious venue. Many of its priesthood holders
hold powerful positions within the United States government, which is the most powerful
government of the most controlling nation in the world. Some of the most successful
businessmen in the world are LDS/Mormon.
The LDS religion has developed into and become almost exactly what the ancient
Jewish religion developed into and was at the time of Christ.^143 The human race needed to
see what happens when free-willed humans are left to themselves to exercise their
unconditional free will upon others during all the different time periods of the world’s
history. This great Mormon experiment verifies that human nature is the same and that
history always repeats itself in the case of unregulated free agency.
Money, success, degrees and glories of the world, and a deep sense of their own
righteousness above all other people in the world, would all come to define typical LDS
members. They believe that they are God’s chosen people and that they, alone, belong to the
only true church of God upon earth.^144 With the existence of this type of religion and the way
its members exercise their free will, the human race will be able to witness what happens
when human beings are allowed to believe and promote the likes of Mormonism, which
commands such a penchant towards inequality to exist within its institutional and
individual psyche.
It was the intended purpose of Joseph’s mission to give the people the choice, “either
on the one hand or on the other.” No matter how many friends he lost, he never deviated
from his mission. But no matter how hard he tried, Joseph could not convince Oliver that it
was God’s continued will that the people be given what they desired so that they would
stumble for their own learning. Oliver had understood Joseph’s reasoning and stood by him