King Follett Discourse - Attitude of Latter-day Saint Leaders

Attitude of Latter-day Saint Leaders

The sermon was not always viewed in a favorable light by leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) or other denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement. It was not published in the LDS Church's 1902 History of the Church because of then-Church President Joseph F. Smith's discomfort with some ideas in the sermon popularized by the editor of the project, B. H. Roberts of the First Council of the Seventy. By 1950, it was included in the revised edition of History of the Church. In 1971, the sermon was published in the Ensign, an official publication of the LDS Church.

LDS Church President Lorenzo Snow succinctly summarized a portion of the doctrine explained in this discourse using a couplet, which is often repeated within the LDS Church:

As man now is, God once was:
As God now is, man may be. —Lorenzo Snow (1840)

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