Parley P. Pratt on Naturalism

Parley P. Pratt

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Among the popular errors of modern times, an opinion prevails that miracles are events which transpire contrary to the laws of nature, that they are effects without a cause. If such is the fact, then, there never has been a miracle, and there never will be one. The laws of nature are the laws of truth. Truth is unchangeable, and independent in its own sphere. A law of nature never has been broken. And it is an absolute impossibility that such law ever should be broken.

Key to the Science of Theology, page 156, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1855

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