Subtlety

Man, I can see how knowledge could be a huge stumbling block, and how it is being used, like a lie, a gradual understanding leads to security in the present and a failure to see where it leads.

This calls for an example in order to explain. As a child, I was not manipulated, but only saw as little as was comfortable at the time, in other words "ignorance is bliss" so, I blissfully did not even consider more and thought Cohihor was a bad guy so any of the garbage he said was equally terrible. He was afterall as bad as one could get. He was called an antichrist therefore that meant anything he believed and spoke was evil and not worth pondering. Then, unaware, I adopted a thought here and there until I built quite the infrastructure of ideas that made me feel smart, I never thought it was evil at all until I was considering the things actually taught by Corihor and realized those were the very things I had thought before, and although, I never ever would have considered myself to be at all like him, gradually, those same thoughts had entered my head. The difference was that I was able to recognize not that any idea was false, but that his conclusions lead one away from God, and I instead conclude that the same truths like steping stones, instead of stumbling blocks can be used to draw closer to God.

Often, I imagine Joseph Smith dictating the words and, if he had created them to support his agendas, it is almost unthinkable to conclude that he could have invented such a perfect story anyhow.
I can and have wrapped my head around the notion that it is all an extra terrestrial doing, but even supposing that God is different that what I had supposed does not change the reality of "heavenly" intervention.

In conclusion, the most responsible and healthy thing to do is choose to use knowledge  to lead to a stronger testimony of the things my other senses feel, instead of letting one gain control over others and conclude things like, "if I do not see it, then it doesn't exist" such an assertion is easily proved and thus mortal. I love this applicable quote:

“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him & bad when it turns from Him.”