We’re comparing what Mr. Eyring said with God’s word. You’ll see our comments/questions in red font.
General Conference, ‘Sisters in Zion’, October 2020 “We know that the Savior will come to a people who have been gathered and prepared to live as the people did in the city of Enoch. The people there were united in faith in Jesus Christ and had become so completely pure that they were taken up to heaven. …
There’s no such city in the Bible.
This dispensation is distinct in that the Lord will lead us to become prepared to be like the city of Enoch. He has described through His apostles and prophets what that transformation to a Zion people will entail.
This means you should ready yourself for more works.
Elder Bruce R. McConkie taught:
“[Enoch’s] was a day of wickedness and evil, a day of darkness and rebellion, a day of war and desolation, a day leading up to the cleansing of the earth by water.
“Enoch, however, was faithful. He ‘saw the Lord,’ and talked with him ‘face to face’ as one man speaks with another. (Moses 7:4.) The Lord sent him to cry repentance to the world, and commissioned him to ‘baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son, which is full of grace and truth, and of the Holy Ghost, which beareth record of the Father and the Son.’ (Moses 7:11.)
Enoch made covenants and assembled a congregation of true believers, all of whom became so faithful that ‘the Lord came and dwelt with his people, and they dwelt in righteousness,’ and were blessed from on high. ‘And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them.’ (Moses 7:18.) …
“After the Lord called his people Zion, the scripture says that Enoch ‘built a city that was called the City of Holiness, even Zion;’ that Zion ‘was taken up into heaven’ where ‘God received it into his own bosom;” and that “from thence went forth the saying, Zion is fled.’ (Moses 7:19, 21, 69.) …
Let’s take a look at what the passage from Moses says in context. Moses 7:19-22, 69 gives us a good idea of what group of people will be taken into Zion —
19 And Enoch continued his preaching in righteousness unto the people of God. And it came to pass in his days, that he built a city that was called the City of Holiness, even Zion.
20 And it came to pass that Enoch talked with the Lord; and he said unto the Lord: Surely Zion shall dwell in safety forever. But the Lord said unto Enoch: Zion have I blessed, but the residue of the people have I cursed.
21 And it came to pass that the Lord showed unto Enoch all the inhabitants of the earth; and he beheld, and lo, Zion, in process of time, was taken up into heaven. And the Lord said unto Enoch: Behold mine abode forever.
22 And Enoch also beheld the residue of the people which were the sons of Adam; and they were a mixture of all the seed of Adam save it was the seed of Cain, for the seed of Cain were black, and had not place among them.
69 And Enoch and all his people walked with God, and he dwelt in the midst of Zion; and it came to pass that Zion was not, for God received it up into his own bosom; and from thence went forth the saying, Zion is Fled.
Doesn’t it seem odd Mr. Eyring would leave out verses 20, and 22 in this passage? It’s hard to believe this would be a simple oversight.
Why didn’t black people have any place amongst everyone else?
How does the Church explain this now that blacks are acceptable?
Why is this still an accepted part of LDS Canon?
Make no mistake, beloved! This was a silent nod to the racist doctrines the LDS Church still espouses. If this weren’t true, we would see the Church denouncing their canon, instead of preaching about it from a worldwide pulpit.
As we mentioned before, there’s nothing in the Bible indicating that an entire city was taken up into heaven at the time Enoch was translated. Furthermore, Enoch lived c. BC 3300. Mr. Eyring claimed these people were ‘united in faith in Jesus Christ’.
How could they do this 3300+ years before Jesus was born? For more info on Enoch’s life, see Biblical Timeline.
Mr. Eyring closed his talk with more unbiblical teachings in the following statement —
“This same Zion which was taken up into heaven shall return … when the Lord brings again Zion, and its inhabitants shall join with the new Jerusalem, which shall then be established.”
We have to ask: will blacks, and other non-whites be allowed into their Zion?
We pray the Mormon people would investigate these ungodly doctrines, and turn to the Jesus of the Bible, not Joseph Smith.
With Love in Christ;
Michelle