Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trust-eth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness in a salt land and not inhabited. - Jer. 17:5-6"Pure knowledge," said Elder Alvin R. Dyer, Assistant to the Twelve at the April 1972 general conference, "meaning revelation from God, is greater than the limited reasoning of men. The method God has chosen to convey this knowledge unto mankind is through His chosen prophets. . . ."