“Mormon’s people were so steeped in sin, and had become so hardened to sensibility that they were no longer able to choose between good and evil, let alone see the right when opposed by that which was wrong. They had the idea that whatsoever pleased the fancy or gratified the demands of their carnal selves would bring happiness. … Notwithstanding the offer the Lord made to spare them, if they would repent, … ‘They did harden their hearts against the Lord their God’” (Reynolds and Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 7:263).