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To: TChris
I’m just curious whether Mormons believe the church was wrong when it refused to ordain blacks prior to 1979.

Was Moses wrong when he refused to ordain anyone outside the Israelite tribe of Levi?

No, Moses was not wrong. But I'd still like to hear an answer to the first question. Do you have one?

20 posted on 01/08/2008 9:00:32 AM PST by HoustonTech
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To: HoustonTech
No, Moses was not wrong. But I'd still like to hear an answer to the first question. Do you have one?

The question about Moses was intended to answer your question.

We believe that the Church is led by a prophet of God, just as the Israelites were. Just as in Moses' time, it is God's decision whom to ordain, not man's. That was my point. When the time came that God wanted all men to be ordained, he revealed so to His prophet, and it was done.

During the time of Christ, Jesus himself reserved His message for the Israelites initially. He later instructed his Prophet, Peter, to share the gospel with the gentiles in a vision. Was Jesus being a racist?

Now, if you disagree that the LDS Church is led by a prophet of God, then that's entirely understandable. But that's also a different issue than blacks being in the priesthood.

If we Mormons are not led by a prophet, then the whole thing is a fraud and a scam. The blacks in the priesthood is the least of our problems. But if we are led by a true prophet of God, and I soberly declare that we are, then we must obey what is revealed to him by God as it regards His Church.

26 posted on 01/08/2008 9:08:28 AM PST by TChris ("if somebody agrees with me 70% of the time, rather than 100%, that doesn’t make him my enemy." -RR)
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