"Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though (prospectively) he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the Father; (Of course those Nephites just let the Father know that they would pay no attention to his appointment, as to time.) Even so, we when we were children, were in bondage under the elements (rudiments or first principles) of the world; But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons."—Gal. 4: 1–5. If we admit the existence of churches among those Nephites, there being no provisions in the divine arrangement for them, they would be human founded in human wisdom, and governed by human authority.
We submit the following:
- All worship in religious institutions being governed by human wisdom is will worship.
- But those Nephite churches, having no divine authority for their existence were human and governed by human wisdom.
- Therefore, all worship in the Nephite churches was will worship.
Again:
- In human institutions, there being a substitution of human wisdom for the divine, the worship therein is idolatrous.
- But those Nephite churches were human, and in them there was a substitution of human wisdom for the divine.
- Therefore the worship in the Nephite churches was idolatrous.
