What is the danger of private interpretation of the scriptures?

Thomas R. Valletta

Some assumed the law of Moses was fulfilled in the birth of Christ and began to preach this untruth without the authority of leaders. “President Wilford Woodruff urged the Church flock to follow the Brethren because, he said, ‘the very moment that men in this kingdom attempt to run ahead or cross the path of their leaders, … they are in danger of being injured by the wolves. … I have never in my life known it to fail’ (in Journal of Discourses, 5:83)” (Maxwell, “Behold, the Enemy Is Combined,” 78).

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