Elder Neal A. Maxwell taught:
"when corruption had reached an agency-destroying point that spirits could not, in justice, be sent here" (We Will Prove Them Herewith 1982, 58)
President John Taylor explained:
"by taking away their earthly existence, God prevented them from entailing their sins upon their posterity and degenerating, or corrupting them, and also prevented them from committing further acts of wickedness" ("Discourse Delivered by President John Taylor," Deseret News, Jan 16th. 1878, 787)
