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Huh?
Those who do their home work know truth from fiction and slander!
The gentile Cornelius could have said the same things you tried to imply ansel12, about the praciticed of the Christian Jews because they too would not baptized an gentile!
LDS Bible Dictionary speak of the similarities
A centurion at Caesarea, baptized by Peter (Acts 10). The significance of Cornelius’s baptism is that he was probably the first gentile to come into the Church not having previously become a proselyte to Judaism (see Proselytes).
Other gentiles had joined the Church, but they had been converted to Judaism before becoming Christians, which caused no great commotion among Jewish Christians who thought of Christianity as having some ties with Judaism.
Preceding the baptism of Cornelius, there were several spiritual manifestations:
the ministry of an angel to Cornelius;
a vision to Peter showing that the dietary restrictions of the law of Moses were to be discontinued;
the voice of the Spirit to Peter;
and a manifestation of the power of the Holy Ghost,
accompanied by the speaking in tongues.
All of this would make clear the divine approval and direction of what was about to take place.
The baptism of Cornelius and his family marked a new dimension in the work of the Church in N.T. times, since it opened the way for the gospel to be preached to the gentiles directly, without going by way of Judaism.
It is notable that this major event in the missionary activity of the Church was done through the ministry of Peter, the chief apostle, who held the keys of the kingdom of God at that time on the earth.
'nuff said.
What does that have to do with 1978 when a Bishop of the racist religion of Mormonism could teach racism and then go home and watch Saturday Night Live on his color television that night, while waiting for the sequel to Star Wars to come out?
Are THESE the keys you are speaking of?
In May of 1829 while translating the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith came across a reference to baptism. He discussed the matter with his scribe, Oliver Cowdery, and the two earnestly supplicated the Lord regarding the matter. Oliver wrote: “Our souls were drawn out in mighty prayer, to know how we might obtain the blessings of baptism and of the Holy Spirit. … We diligently sought for … the authority of the holy priesthood, and the power to administer in the same.” 6
In response to that “mighty prayer,” John the Baptist came, restoring the keys and powers of the Aaronic Priesthood, which our young men in this audience tonight have been given. A few weeks later Peter, James, and John returned to restore the keys and powers of the Melchizedek Priesthood, including the keys of the apostleship. Then when a temple had been built to which other heavenly messengers might come, there unfolded on April 3, 1836, a modern-day equivalent of that earlier Mount of Transfiguration, part of something President Hinckley once called the “Kirtland cascade” of revelation in which the Savior Himself, plus Moses, Elijah, and Elias, appeared in glory to the Prophet Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and conferred keys and powers from their respective dispensations upon these men. That visit was then concluded with this thunderous declaration, “Therefore, the keys of this dispensation are committed into your hands.”