Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained that God intervened “when corruption had reached an agency-destroying point that spirits could not, in justice, be sent here” (We Will Prove Them Herewith [1982], 58).
President John Taylor
President John Taylor explained that “by taking away their earthly existence
[God] prevented them from entailing their sins upon their posterity and
degenerating [or corrupting] them, and also prevented them from committing
further acts of wickedness” (“Discourse Delivered by Prest. John Taylor,”
Deseret News, Jan. 16, 1878, 787).
