from "only white people get in to heaven" to "only pure people"?
2007-03-01 01:56:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
here you go....It is certainly racist where the 1830 Book of Mormon says that the people who God blesses shall not pass away "save they shall be a white and a delightsome people" (2 Nephi 30:6). To compound matters, the LDS Church has altered this text in newer editions changing the word "white" to say "pure." To give the benefit of doubt that they were not intentionally altering the meaning in this text, it is fair to say that the LDS church views these words as complimentary adjectives which describe the people whom God blesses. To be white is to be pure and to be pure is to be white. This doctrine of racial superiority is certainly supported in other such passages as 2 Nephi 5:21 where formerly white people (the passage also says their white skin was very fair and delightsome) are cursed by God with black skin as a punishment. To be black is to be cursed and to be cursed is to be black. you want more? look it up yourself.
2007-03-02 01:39:15 · update #1
Yes, the Book of Mormon has been changed. Roughly 4,000 grammatical and semantic errors have been fixed, and some sentences have been rewritten to be less ambiguous.
In the passage you are speaking of, 'white' was referred to in the same way John the Revelator referred to it in the book of Revelation. He stated that he saw Jesus wearing brilliant white robes as he descended at Armageddon. White has always been a color that has symbolized purity in nearly every religion, Buddhism and Islam included. White light is the combination of all other colors of light. If you pass it through a prism, you see all colors of the rainbow break out. White pigment, however, is the complete absence of any color. It is unstained and pure.
White was used in this way in the original Book of Mormon passages, but when people started interpreting it as referring to the actual 'skin color', a change was made necessary to remove the ambiguity of the passage and have people understand the truth of the passage.
The Jews (from whom Christianity and ultimately Mormonism both stemmed) are white and believe that Adam and Eve were both white. Many of them believe that God changed skin color at the Tower of Babel along with the confounding of languages. Anyone who studies science, darwinists and religious people alike, knows that white parents won't have a black baby, and vice versa. Neither black nor white skin is more 'delightsome' than the other, but they're different because God made them that way. I'm Northern European, my friend is Latino, my in-laws are Mediterranean, and some of my colleagues are African and Middle-Eastern. We're all different and that's what's great about it.
There are nearly as many non-white Mormons as there are white ones, actually, and most of these are of either South American or African origin.
2007-03-02 04:36:54 · answer #1 · answered by James, Pet Guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mormons Bible is the KJV of the bible
But to answer your question about The Book of Mormon
The word that they were translation had two meanings and they were in sure which one was correct. It was only after someone of color asked about did the leadership pray about the translation and changed it.
2007-03-01 01:59:52 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did the Bible change in 1982? I was not aware of the change. I do not recall exactly where in the Bible it talks about "only white people get in to heaven". Can you tell us the Book, chapter, and verse?
2007-03-01 16:51:57 · answer #3 · answered by J T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are referring to when blacks were able to recieve the priesthood, that happened in 1978. From what I know, LDS people have not changed the Bible or the Book of Mormon.
2007-03-01 15:08:10 · answer #4 · answered by bettygirl1128 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hate to break it to you, BUT...
Our bible is the KJV bible, which as far as I know didn't change in 1982.
As for what I think you are intending to ask, read Pinkadot's answer.
2007-03-01 08:01:00 · answer #5 · answered by Beast8981 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Are you referring to the Priesthood not being offered to everyone, then everyone? It was through revealtion. You can read the declaration at http://scriptures.lds.org/en/od/2
2007-03-01 06:18:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow! It really said that! Gosh! People read crazy things!
2007-03-01 01:59:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like the others said, God is the one who make the decision.
So why don't you ask him.
2007-03-01 06:53:06 · answer #8 · answered by Wahnote 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋