LDS Adoption Blog

04/03/07

LDS Church history and adopted Black children, part 4

Posted by : Tana W. in LDS Adoption Blog at 12:26 am , 371 words, 148 views  
Categories: Transracial/Transcultural, Talking with Kids, Difficult Topics, Church History
2 Nephi 26:33 "...and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile."

Article of Faith Three

We believe that through the atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel. (emphasis mine)

Sermons and Writings of Bruce R. McConkie

"There are statements in our literature by the early Brethren that we have interpreted to mean that the Negroes would not receive the priesthood in mortality. I have said the same things, and people write me letters and say, "You said such and such, and how is it now that we do such and such?" All I can say is that it is time disbelieving people repented and got in line and believed in a living, modern prophet. Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young or President George Q. Cannon or whoever 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 light line upon line and precept upon precept (2 Ne. 28:30; Isa. 28:9-10; D&C 98:11-12; 128:21). We have now 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 anymore.

"It doesn't make a particle of difference what anybody ever said about the Negro matter before the first day of June 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. As to any slivers of light or any particles of darkness of the past, we forget about them. We now do what meridian Israel did when the Lord said the gospel should go to the Gentiles. We forget all the statements that limited the gospel to the house of Israel, and we start going to the Gentiles."

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Comment from: Deb Donatti [Member] Email · http://open.adoptionblogs.com
Racism is hard to seperate people from once it has become so deeply ingrained in their beliefs and culture.
I am not a member of your church, but I think that it was people who changed their mind in 1978, not God.
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Comment from: Deb Donatti [Member] Email · http://open.adoptionblogs.com
I forgot to say by that by this I mean I believe God has always valued all his children.
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