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Mormons why do you say God is the only judge when Brigham Young said Joseph Smith was?

no man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith. ...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are

Author: Brigham Young
Source: Journal Of Discourses
Volume: 7
Chapter: 14
Page: 289

First of all --- context is everything when trying to determine the meaning of something said - when put into context (included at the end of this answer) one can see that that was not what BY was saying at all --- he was speaking of JS as the prophet of the time.

No mortal's role in the judgment supercedes the role given to Jesus, as the Book of Mormon bears witness: 2_Ne. 9:41. However, as a prophet of Our Lord Jesus Christ - JS may well be called to witness for or against us, as any other prophet may be.

BY's Comment --- "Joseph Smith holds the keys of this last dispensation, and is now engaged behind the vail in the great work of the last days...no man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith.... I will now tell you something that ought to comfort every man and woman on the face of the earth. Joseph Smith, junior, will again be on this earth dictating plans and calling forth his brethren to be baptized for the very characters who wish this was not so, in order to bring them into a kingdom to enjoy...he will never cease his operations, under the directions of the Son of God, until the last ones of the children of men are saved that can be, from Adam till now.... It is his mission to see that all the children of men in this last dispensation are saved, that can be, through the redemption"

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