If you have (vain) hope, you are bound down, carrying a yoke of foolish beliefs – implies that you are heavy laden and weighed down if you believe in what he doesn’t
2. Nobody can know of the
future: meaning no such things as prophets, seers, or revelation, not even
personal revelation.
3. Prophecies from
prophets are foolish traditions of our fathers
4. You can’t know of a
surety what you don’t see. If you can’t see Christ, you can’t know He will
come.
5. We shouldn’t look
forward – no hope in the future
6. There is no remission
of sins, so Christ won’t atone for us; if you believe this you are a crazy
person.
7. If you believe it, you
are deranged because of traditions that lead you away to things that are false.
8. There can’t be an
atonement
9. Every man survives the
next life according to how well he does – nothing to do with grace or
forgiveness or any help from God or Christ.
10. We take care of our
own destiny because we are strong, genius.
11. Nothing we do is
wrong; there is no such thing as crime or sin. (notice how long he taught before he began to add this!
12. There is no afterlife.
Death is the end, so it doesn’t matter what you do now.
13. Committing to
covenants and participating in ordinances gives the leaders power over us,
keeps us in ignorance, and we can’t lift up our heads but will be brought down
14. People have given up
their freedom, are in bondage because of their beliefs.
15. Korihor testified that
all this was true.
16. The fall of Adam
didn’t affect us. We have no sin because of our parents.
17. The leaders are leading
the people astray with foolish traditions according to their own desires, (not
guidance from God)
18. The leaders try to
keep people down, in bondage to glut from their labors
19. People don’t dare look
up with boldness.
20. People don’t dare
enjoy their rights and privileges
21. People don’t dare make
use of what is theirs
22. Priests yoke them
according to their desires
23. Leaders of the Church
lead through traditions, dreams, whims and pretended mysteries.
24. God is an unknown
being who has never been seen or known, and will never be.
25. Korihor reviled against God.
Alma:
people are happy because of our beliefs! They make us happy and give us joy.
Take that away and you are interrupting our joy.
