Coming to the end, here are some final quotes (included with a little bit of my commentary) from Vern’s book, Dynasty of the Holy Grail (2006).  These quotes fully caught my attention:

Mormons are considered satanic enemies by most conservative evangelical Christian ministries because of the truth we espouse (394).

Pinpointed in Scripture, Satan, the world system, and my sinful nature are my greatest enemies.  The sinful element of my own heart is the chief enemy, not Vern, in my daily spiritual warfare.  But in acknowledging this, I will do battle with any idea that impedes us from standing fast in the liberty of Christ in the I-15 Idaho/Utah corridor.  Perhaps God might grant me in His grace forty more years to love and serve others here in Southeastern Idaho.  I feel like I am only on the first page.  We cannot, we must not frustrate the grace of God.

Daniel Peterson and Stephen Ricks write, “Some denunciations of Mormonism seem to betray a Neoplatonic and Gnosticizing disdain for the material cosmos, a discomfort with the body and with sexuality that is utterly foreign to the Bible” (397).

This one quote has put together for me many of the pieces of the puzzle in my last eight months of internet blogging.  Neoplatonism and Gnosticism have been leveled at me more than any other philosophies of men.  For the record, I despise them both.  I hate both Plato’s god and the Gnostic’s god.  And neither does the Spirit speak to me through the “popular” Gnostic scriptures, raved and ranted upon all over
America. 

But for the LDS, in wanting to avoid one ditch, have they swung too far over the other side of the road into the opposite ditch?  I wish I could ask this question to Joseph Smith.  Rather than oppose physical matter, God is now bound by physical matter?  Matter is eternal?  No beginning?  Is this the way it should be?

Carrigan is the kindest of our critics (398).

I have never met this guy, nor read anything by this guy.  But from Vern’s introduction, I would like to meet Carrigan sometime.  He sounds like a gentleman.

In conclusion, I would also like to meet Vern.  The next time I am in Springville, I am going to visit the Springville Museum of Art.  When in high school, I almost decided on being an art major in college.  Even though my brother-in-law, now a pastor in Rexburg, attended a prestigious art school in Chicago, I merely ended up being a security guard at the nationally known Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery in Greenville, S.C.  I could definitely obtain great pleasure by picking Vern’s brain on art.  If he had time, I would ask Dr. Swanson for a tour in the museum.