1. You believe that the only source of truth is your own intellect.
2. You believe that there are no absolutes, and that each person’s morality is as valid as the others, with the exception that your own morality trumps all others.
3. You think that your private interpretation of the Bible, based on your human intellect, is supreme to revelation and the Holy Spirit. For Example: You will test any revelation from God, by your private interpretation of the Bible, thus making your intellect superior to God's.
4. You have remade God in your own image, by giving Him the attributes of your intellect and making his truths reliant upon your human reasoning. After all, controlling God is equivalent to being Him.
On several occasions I have expressed in our council meetings my concern for some projects being undertaken by the Church Historian's Office and some of those who have been engaged to work on the projects. May I state with emphasis, as I have in our meetings, that my concern does not deny in any way that these brethren are active members of the Church.… I think our brethren in the Historical Department are wonderful men. It is the principle that concerns me.
It is a matter of orientation toward scholarly work—historians' work in particular—that sponsors my concern. I have come to believe that it is the tendency for most members of the Church who spend a great deal of time in academic research to begin to judge the Church, its doctrine, organization, and history, by the principles of their own profession. Ofttimes this is done unwittingly, and some of it perhaps is wholesome. However, it is an easy thing for a man with extensive academic training to consider the Church with the principles he has been taught in his professional training as his measuring standard.
In my mind it ought to be the other way around. A member of the Church ought always, particularly if he is pursuing extended academic studies, to judge the professions of men against the revealed word of the Lord.