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Interesting
Quotes from Brigham Young
the Second Prophet of the Mormon Church
Brigham Young said your
own blood must atone for some sins.
"There is not a man or woman, who
violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to
pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood
must atone for it . . . " (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, page
247; see also, Vol. 4, pp. 53-54, 219-220.)
Brigham Young said you must confess
Joseph Smith as a prophet of God in order to be saved.
"...and he that confesseth not that
Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the
Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is Antichrist." (Journal
of Discourses, Vol. 9, p. 312).
Brigham Young said his discourses are
as good as Scripture.
"I say now, when they [his discourses]
are copied and approved by me they are as good Scripture as is couched in
this Bible . . . " (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13, p. 264; see
also page 95.)
Brigham Young said he had never given
any counsel that was wrong.
"I am here to answer. I shall be
on hand to answer when I am called upon, for all the counsel and for all
the instruction that I have given to this people. If there is an
Elder here, or any member of this Church, called the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, who can bring up the first idea, the first
sentence that I have delivered to the people as counsel that is wrong, I
really wish they would do it; but they cannot do it, for the simple reason
that I have never given counsel that is wrong; this is the
reason." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 16, page 161.)
Brigham Young compared his sermons
with scripture.
"I
know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them
and what to do in order to bring them into the celestial kingdom...I have
never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that
they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a
sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they deserve. The people have the
oracles of God continually." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13, p. 95.)
Brigham Young said you are damned if
you deny polygamy.
"Now if any of you will deny the
plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be
damned." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, p. 266). Also,
"The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who
enter into polygamy." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 11, page 269).
Brigham Young said you can't get to
the highest heaven without Joseph Smith's consent.
"...no man or woman in this
dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the
consent of Joseph Smith." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 7, p. 289).
Brigham Young said God was progressing
in knowledge.
"God himself is increasing and
progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds
without end." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, p. 120).
Brigham Young boasted.
"What man or woman on earth, what
spirit in the spirit-world can say truthfully that I ever gave a wrong
word of counsel, or a word of advice that could not be sanctioned by the
heavens? The success which has attended me in my presidency is owing to
the blessings and mercy of the Almighty . . . " (Journal of
Discourses, Vol. 12, p. 127).
Brigham Young said that we are
obligated to keep all the laws and ordinances of God.
"Some of you may ask, ‘Is there a
single ordinance to be dispensed with? Is there one of the commandments
that God has enjoined upon the people, that he will excuse them from
obeying?' Not one, no matter how trifling or small in our own estimation.
No matter if we esteem them non-essential, or least or last of all the
commandments of the house of God, we are under obligation to observe
them." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 8, p. 339).
Brigham Young said Jesus' birth was as
natural as ours.
"The birth of the Savior was as
natural as the births of our children; it was the result of natural
action. He partook of flesh and blood--was begotten of his Father, as we
were of our fathers." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 8, p. 115).
Brigham Young said that God the Father
and Mary 'do it.'
"When the time came that His
first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle,
the Father came Himself and favoured that spirit with a tabernacle instead
of letting any other man do it." (Journal of Discourses,
Vol. 4, Page 218.) "The birth of the Savior was as natural
as are the births of our children; it was the result of natural
action. He partook of flesh and blood -- was begotten of his
Father, as we were of our fathers." (Journal of Discourses,
Vol. 8, page 115). Note: the late Bruce McConkie who was
a member of the First Council of the Seventy stated "There is nothing
figurative about his paternity; he was begotten, conceived and born in the
normal and natural course of events..." (Mormon Doctrine, by Bruce
McConkie, page 742.)
Brigham Young said that Jesus was not
begotten by the Holy Spirit
"I have given you a few leading items
upon this subject, but a great deal more remains to be told. Now,
remember from this time forth, and for ever, that Jesus Christ was not
begotten by the Holy Ghost." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 1, page
51).
Brigham Young taught that Adam was
God.
"Now hear it, O inhabitants of the
earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came
into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and
brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. He helped to make and
organize this world. He is Michael, the Archangel, the Ancient of
Days! about whom holy men have written and spoken -- He is our
Father, and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do. Every
man upon the earth, professing Christians or non professing, must hear it,
and will know it sooner or later." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 1,
page 50).
Brigham Young made a false prophecy?
"In the days of Joseph [Smith] it was
considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of
Congress, but twenty-six years will not pass away before the Elders of
this Church will be as much thought of as the kings on their
thrones." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 4, page 40.)
Brigham Young comments about blacks
"You see some classes of the human
family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their
habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the
intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his
brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a
termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and
the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black
skin." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 7, page 290).
"In our
first settlement in Missouri, it was said by our enemies that we intended
to tamper with the slaves, not that we had any idea of the kind, for such
a thing never entered our minds. We knew that the children of Ham were to
be the "servant of servants," and no power under heaven could
hinder it, so long as the Lord would permit them to welter under the curse
and those were known to be our religious views concerning them." (Journal
of Discourses, Volume 2, page 172.)
"Shall
I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man
who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the
penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be
so." (Journal of Discourses, Volume 10, page 110.)
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