![]() ![]() They would never understand me or my challenges.” I thought these men were not only better than I was, but a better kind of man than I was. I said to myself, “Surely these men have never been tempted by the sins I have participated in. I have often looked at the prophets and other General Authorities, even my bishops and stake presidents, and thought what wonderfully spiritual men they are. I am fundamentally different from them and always will be. There are men who have never made mistakes anything like the mistakes I have made. We both know which kind of man you are.” And so I came to believe another lie: There are men who are above it all, and there are men who slip and fall. “There are good men and there are those who give in to temptation. Satan used the same sort of manipulation on me, and for many years, I believed his lies. ![]() I was struck by a scene where a middle-aged man was deviously carrying out an attack on a young woman’s basic character by saying: “There are two kinds of women in the world – and we both know which kind you are.” By trying to get the girl to define herself in a negative way, he hoped to convince her to behave according to that definition.
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