Enemies of Christ Exposed

The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ aptly termed AntiChrist.  Van Hale spearheads these enemies on his program giving free vent to their views, while constantly censoring, distorting, lying to and about the servants of God who get revelation from him by comparing these with the basest of men after censoring their speech.  Sherem is one of these anti-Christs: "When a person refuses to exercise faith-to have a hope in that which is unseen but true (Alma 32:21)-he thereby denies himself access to the spiritual world, another realm of reality. His vision of things is at best deficient and at worst perverse; he does not see things "as they really are" (see Jacob 4:13; D&C 93:24). He is a scientist with insufficient data; his methodology is limited by his approach and his conclusions must surely be suspect.  "This is blasphemy; for no man knoweth of such things; for he cannot tell of things to come." Further, "If there should be a Christ, I would not deny him; but I know that there is no Christ, neither has been, nor ever will be" (Jacob 7:7, 9;). If we were to paraphrase Sherem's argument, it might be stated as follows: "If there should be a Christ-here and now, one that I could see and feel and hear, one which requires no faith or hope-then I would not deny him; I would believe." This, of course, is not true. The unbelievers, the faithless have hardened their hearts to the point that most of the time they deny or rationalize even tangible evidence. It is usually the case that proof is the last thing that those demanding it want. The louder the shouts for evidence, the less the inclination to accept it. Sherem's naturalistic view of reality ... Those who rely exclusively upon human sensory experience and human reason to come to the truth cannot find a place in their tightly-enclosed epistemological system for such matters as spirit and revelation and prophecy.