Uh. Whatever happened to: "Then Peter and the other apostles answered [after being "commanded" that they not teach in Jesus' name] and said, We ought to obey God rather than men?" (Acts 5:29)
So the will of slaveowners trumps the will of God that the Gospel go to slaves? Is that what you're telling me with a straight face?
So what if the LDS favored freeing slaves back in its Mizzou days? What does it matter, REALLY, if you personally favored freeing slaves' bodies but disfavored freeing their souls? Repent of such nonsense!!!
Uh. Whatever happened to: “Then Peter and the other apostles answered [after being “commanded” that they not teach in Jesus’ name] and said, We ought to obey God rather than men?” (Acts 5:29)
So the will of slaveowners trumps the will of God that the Gospel go to slaves? Is that what you’re telling me with a straight face?
So what if the LDS favored freeing slaves back in its Mizzou days? What does it matter, REALLY, if you personally favored freeing slaves’ bodies but disfavored freeing their souls? Repent of such nonsense!!!
First, for you to leave out the important part of the context of that verses in the D&C is so telling, that I will from now on be forced to treat every one of your posts with as much respect and sincerity as the pattern which you are choosing to give them in. You do yourself and your cause a HUGE disservice by such blatant misinterpretation.
This is clearly about masters rights and the sanctity of life for the slaves, who's lives could be in jeopardy if they went against their masters wishes. The doctrines of the restoration include being judged on whatever degree of light and knowledge we have, not on wither or not all men are baptized, that's what Baptisms for the dead are for, and that's why there is a 1000 year millennium, to do all of Gods work for all his children, since the world began, for free and bonded.