Saturday, January 30, 2021

Boyd K. Packer on Judas' Betrayal of Jesus being Influenced by Satan

In his October 2003 General Conference talk, "The Standard of Truth Has Been Erected," Boyd K. Packer said that:

 

Satan, with his angels, will try to capture your thoughts and control what you do. If he can, he will corrupt anything that is good.

 

In a footnote to this, Packer references Luke 22:3:

 

Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.

 

This shows that Packer did not hold the really silly view that Judas was well-intentioned in his betrayal of Jesus, a silly (and frankly, blasphemous) view some Latter-day Saints have forwarded.