Psychological States and Madness

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:(2 Thes 2:11) "Before God destroys a nation, he strikes them with madness". Josephus "The scriptures are an iron rod running by the side of a deep and filthy river in flood stage. The rod is there to lead me to the Tree of Life, but it is also a barrier to keep me from being swept away by the deceptions of my generation. Once again, I hear the Lord whisper: "Don't walk along the edge of that river without a good grip on the iron rod, you will drown." ('letters from Loving Father To His Children', LDS Church News, 1993, 01/02/93) We are spiritual as well as physical beings and all the time awash in spiritual phenomenae. The sagacity of man unaided by revelation from God is helpless to be lead along to perish. Differenet psychological states at once influenced by spirit of God, and then madness which comes when deluded because of unrighteousness into an opposite state. Wicked are deluded and lead along. "The Almighty will lead the wicked as a man leads a horse, at pleasure. Remarks By Heber C. Kimball. Missive from Henrik quoting Bob Edwards: "Hello Art, 'I come up with a feeling that it is a beautiful doctrine and theory that Joseph Smith and Brigham Young have advanced to us. And now through you I have been able to read their standpoint.' Brother Edwards prayed about it a little bit, maybe not enough, and now he feels he is a rebel. That's too bad, Bob. But you should be proud to be in good company as Joseph Smith and also the Lord Jesus Christ and all the true prophets were considered as rebels. Don't worry Bob, they will not throw you out. Look what that mister van Hale says about the Book of Mormon and he is getting away even with that. Anyway Bob, you should take a little more time to investigate these matters, like everybody should do who would ever come across this material. Anyway, all the best and may God bless you on all your ways.