While confessing that “after the way which they call heresy” he had worshiped the God of his fathers, he asserted that he had never swerved from his belief in the law and the prophets, and that in conformity with the Scriptures he held the faith of the resurrection of the dead; and he further declared that it was the ruling purpose of his life to “have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward man.”{LP 238.1}

Skønt de bekender at " jeg følger den »vej«, som de kalder et parti," tilbedte han sine fældres Gud, hævdede han at hanaldrig havde veget bort fra sin tro på loven og profeterne, og at han i overensstemmelse med skriften fremholdt troen om de dødes opstandelse; og han erkærede derudover at det var det fremherskende mål med hans liv "altid at have en uskadt samvittighed over for Gud og mennesker."