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Intellectuals
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We’re going to be judged in an intellectual field, and certainly, that’s going to involve the seeking of truth and study. It’s going to involve false doctrine. I think that a good deal of the false doctrine that goes around is purely an intellectual enterprise in the hands of those who believe it. They rationalize this or that to make the conduct that they have harmonious. I can’t think of a better illustration of that than this Adam-God philosophy that goes around. People say they believe that Adam is God, that we worship him, and that he is the father of our spirits as well as the father of our bodies. They want to believe that, and the reason is that they can quote somebody of the past who seems to have said it and somebody of the present who denies it’s true. Then, they can say, “Well, Spencer Kimball says this and somebody of the past said something else, and I’ll choose to believe what somebody in the past said,” and that enables them then to say that somebody of the past believed in plural marriage and Spencer Kimball doesn’t. “And because the past prophets are true and the living prophets aren’t, I think I’ll enter plural marriage,” and, of course, they lose their souls. Now that’s just a perfect intellectual enterprise on their part to justify the lusts and appetites of the flesh.
Elder Bruce R. McConkie
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Intellectuals
President Ezra Taft Benson
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Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves. Most of us consider pride to be a sin of those on the top, such as the rich and the learned, looking down at the rest of us. (See 2 Ne. 9:42.) There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many ways, such as faultfinding, gossiping, backbiting, murmuring, living beyond our means, envying, coveting, withholding gratitude and praise that might lift another, and being unforgiving and jealous. Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.
President Ezra Taft Benson
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