“Thou Art Possessed with a Lying Spirit”

“How interesting is Alma’s insight! Alma tells us that Korihor in fact believes that which he is denying. He indicates that Korihor is little more than a wooden puppet, one dressed as a spiritual liberator, dancing and singing as his strings are pulled by the devil himself. And how appropriate that he now demand a sign, for we know that it is the ‘wicked and adulterous’ (Matt 16:4) that seek after signs. ’The Lord said to me in a revelation,’ Joseph Smith reported, ’that any man who wanted a sign was an adulterous person.’” (Millet & McConkie, Sustaining and Defending the Faith, pp. 92-3)