Sunday, September 27, 2020

Brigham Young: Satan is the Author of All Other Religions

 

In a sermon from 1857, Brigham Young addressed the issue of the multiplicity of religions, and how, echoing the words of the psalmist who said that "for the gods of the nations are idols" (Psa 96:5), attributed Satan as the ultimate founder thereof:

 

There will be a kingdom on the earth that will be controlled upon the same basis, in part, as that of the Government of the United States; and it will govern and protect in their rights the various classes of men, irrespective of their different modes of worship; for the law must go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem, and the Lord Jesus will govern every nation and kingdom upon the earth.

 

A great many have thought that every person will then be in the Church, but that will not be the case. There will then be as great a variety in religious belief as there is now; one will believe one thing, and another will believe something different, while the Devil rules among men.

 

Will the kingdom of Jesus triumph? It will; and the legislators of that kingdom are in this congregation and will remain, and the laws of that kingdom will be made in accordance with the revelations from Jesus Christ. (JOD 3:329-30 | October 7, 1857)

 

Would that modern Latter-day Saints, including many leaders, had such a view, instead of cosying up with the Pope and other leaders of false religions without sharing the true Gospel with them.