Dictionary.com defines the word fact as “something said to be true or supposed to have happened”.
January 21 — All are Alike Unto God, August 18, 1978 “Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young or President George Q. Cannon or whomsoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation. We spoke with a limited understanding and without the light and knowledge that now has come into the world.
We get our truth and our light line upon line and precept upon precept. We have now had added a new flood of intelligence and light on this particular subject, and it erases all the darkness and all the views and all the thoughts of the past. They don’t matter any more.
It doesn’t make a particle of difference what anybody ever said about the Negro matter before the first day of June of this year, 1978. It is a new day and a new arrangement, and the Lord has now given the revelation that sheds light out into the world on this subject.” — Bruce McConkie
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Acts 17:26 “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation”.
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How is the pre-existence story true if the 1978 revelation is true? As noted above McConkie announced that everyone needs to forget what they said.
Are we supposed to forget that black people supposedly made poor decisions in the pre-existence and that’s why they are black? What about my family who isn’t white and delightsome? This talk should cause big problems in the life of many Mormons!
We’re also wondering what other doctrines they might change.
What about the Book of Mormon? They changed several racist headings in addition to some of the inflammatory text itself. How can anyone take Joseph Smith’s claim as truth when he said it’s the most correct book on the face of the earth? History of the Church 4:461.
Fact: Retired BYU Professor Royal Skousen identified 5,280 changes to the BoM. We wrote about him back in 2016. One of the Mormon verses in question comes from 2 Nephi 30:6. The change was made in 1981.
It used to say —
“And then shall they rejoice; for they shall know that it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and their scales of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a white and a delightsome people.”
Now it says —
“And then shall they rejoice; for they shall know that it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and their scales of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a pure and a delightsome people.”
I’ve also wondered how members carry around the BoM knowing what it says and what are they going to do about all the other racist verses?
Ask a Mormon what they think about the questions posed here and let them know you’ll pray for them!
With Love in Christ —
Michelle ✟
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Wow!!! Way to throw God under the bus, Bruce.😞
That’s exactly what I was thinking!