“It is fully proved in all the revelations that God has ever given to mankind that they naturally love and admire righteousness, justice and truth more than they do evil. It is, however, universally received by professors of religion as a Scriptural doctrine that man is naturally opposed to God. This is not so. Paul says, in his Epistle to the Corinthians, ‘But the natural man receiveth not the things of God,’ but I say it is the unnatural ‘man that receiveth not the things of God…’ The natural man is of God.”
Brigham Young – 15 June 1862, Journal of Discourses – Volume 9 (Liverpool, England: George Q. Cannon, 1862), 305.
Perhaps Brigham Young forgot this passage from the Book of Mormon:
“For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord.”
Joseph Smith, Jr., The Book of Mormon – Mosiah 3:19 (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, circa 1829).