The anti-Christ is bent upon the overthrow of the plan of God. He or she has partaken of that spirit of rebellion which resulted in the expulsion of one-third of all of the children of the Eternal Father in the premortal world. Prior to the meridian of time the anti-Christ contended that there would be no Christ and that no man had the ability to speak authoritatively concerning things future.
The anti-Christ contends that there is no need for a Savior; that man is perfectly capable of securing his own happiness and well-being; and that any trust in or allegiance to things beyond human reach or reason is futile.
Clever ploys of the modern anti-Christ include an insistence upon the preeminence of man; an exaggerated stress upon man’s self-reliance; an emphasis upon Jesus as the great moral teacher and community leader, with a corresponding deemphasis upon the necessity for spiritual regeneration through a blood atonement.