President Ezra Taft Benson shared the following three questions we can ask ourselves to avoid being deceived:
“1. What do the standard works have to say about it? …
“The Book of Mormon, Brigham Young said, was written on the tablets of his heart and no doubt helped save him from being deceived. …
“2. The second guide is: what do the latter-day Presidents of the Church have to say on the subject—particularly the living President? …
“3. The third and final test is the Holy Ghost—the test of the Spirit. … This test can only be fully effective if one’s channels of communication with God are clean and virtuous and uncluttered with sin. Said Brigham Young:
“‘You may know whether you are led right or wrong … for every principle God has revealed carries its own convictions of its truth to the human mind. …
“‘What a pity it would be if we were led by one man to utter destruction!’” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1963, 16–17).