Mormon 1

(December 9, 2013)
I believe that it is fair to say that we have little understanding of the way the world actually works.  For example, Mormon closes this chapter with an explicit discussion of sorceries and witchcraft.  Ask the typical Christian (Mormon or otherwise) whether such things exist, and I would imagine that they would concede that they do.  But, by the same token, that seems to be only words rather than a true understanding that these powers we don’t understand exist.

We comprehend miracles (although all too often we try to explain them away).  But we are less comfortable accepting that Satan has powers of his own that permit him to impact the world.  I have no doubt that this is a deliberate set of circumstances – another way of the Devil to claim that he is not who we know him to be because there is no Devil.