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Although the Mormon Church changed its policy in the late 1970's in admitting Blacks, the Mormon Church continues officially to teach that the Black race is inferior, subhuman, and that Blacks are descended from Cain in the Bible who was cursed by God. And it is because of this curse on Cain that Blacks have such "ugly" physical features according to the Mormon Church. None of these things about Blacks are taught in the Christian Scriptures. What about the so-called "Curse of Ham"? Ham wasn't cursed but rather it was Canaan, one of Ham's sons, who was cursed, and even that curse has been greatly misunderstood in Christendom. All are encouraged to read the author's article "Negro Slavery and The Myth of Ham's Curse" at www.religionscience.com for a better understanding of the issue.
This story (below) is directed to the Mormon Church and everyone who harbors racism.
As I was walking down the road the other day I overheard a German Shepherd talking to a bull dog. I over-heard the German Shepherd saying to the bull dog "You can't possibly be a dog because you don't look like me! Why, just look at your flat nose and jaw, your round head, your stumpy neck, and short legs. You look more like a cat than you do a dog! Hey, is that your nose or your mouth? Hahahaha! Do you grow the ugly nappy hair that poodles have? How can anything that looks like you have the soul, intelligence, and feelings of a dog? Who gave you the right to be called a dog? Get out of my sight you ugly looking thing!"
I mention the above illustration to make a point to those who harbor racism. I hope that you will repent of your sin of racism, which is a great sin against God Who created all men in His image and has commanded all men to love one another, and that you will receive the love and forgiveness of God which is in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior Who paid the penalty for all our sins through His death and shedding of His blood on the Cross of Calvary and Who rose again from the dead to give us eternal life.
You see, just as a co-signer to a bad loan takes the full legal blame and liability to pay the entire debt on the loan so, too, Jesus Christ, God's eternal and only begotten Son, took upon Himself the full legal and moral liability to pay the entire debt for our sins.
The Bible says that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth and that on the Cross He bore our sins in His own body and received the punishment from God (the Father) that we deserve for our sins and then He rose again from the dead. The Bible teaches that the penalty for even one sin is so great that we could never completely pay the penalty. Only God Himself is capable of fully paying for our sins and Jesus Christ Who is God (the Son) did just that on the Cross of Calvary. It was for us that Christ suffered and died on the Cross! Christ took it upon Himself to pay our debt. Because Christ took the blame and punishment for our sins, God (the Father) can be just in freely forgiving us of our sins when we genuinely repent and put our faith and trust in Jesus Christ alone to save us.
Young people, and even adults, often wonder how all the varieties or "races" of people could come from the same human ancestors. Well, in principle, that's no different than asking how children with different color hair (i.e., blond, brunette, brown, red) can come from the same parents who both have black hair.
Just as some individuals today carry genes to produce descendants with different color hair and eyes, humanity's first parents possessed genes to produce all the variety and races of men. You and I today may not carry the genes to produce every variety or race of humans, but humanity's first parents did possess such genes.
All varieties of humans carry genes for the same basic traits, but not all humans carry every possible variation of those genes. For example, one person may be carrying several variations of the gene for eye color (i.e., brown, green, and blue), but someone else may be carrying only one variation of the gene for eye color (i.e., brown). Thus, both will have different abilities to affect the eye color of their offspring.
Some parents with black hair, for example, are capable of producing children with blond hair, but their blond children (because they inherit only recessive genes) will not have the ability to produce children with black hair unless they mate with someone else who has black hair. If the blond descendants only mate with other blondes then the entire line and population will only be blond even though the original ancestor was black-haired. People often ask how all the different races of men could have descended from Adam and Eve. But, in principle this is no different than asking how children with different color hair can come from the same parents. Just as some couples today carry genes to produce children with different color hair, so too Adam and Eve, our very first parents, ultimately carried the genes to produce descendants with different color skin and physical features. Of course, you and I today don't possess the genes for producing all the varieties of humans as Adam and Eve did. Just as you can get a pure bred from a mutt but not a mutt from a pure bred, so too all varieties of humans were able to come from Adam and Eve our first parents.
All varieties of humans belong to one natural species since all varieties of human beings are inter-fertile, and this is biological proof that we are all descendants of a common human ancestor. This is why the Bible says that God "hath made of one all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth ..." (Acts 17:26, KJV). The Bible clearly teaches that God created all human beings in His image. Therefore, as one of my former pastors, Dr. Carl E. Abrahamsen, Jr., so truthfully and eloquently stated, to hate a fellow human being who has been created in the image of God because of the way he or she looks is a great and serious sin and offense against God which needs to be confessed and repented of before the Almighty.
*Some other Internet articles by the author are: "Why The Traditional View of Hell Is Not Biblical", "Early Christianity Before The Papacy", "Free Will and Sovereign Grace", "Christ Was Begotten, Not Created", "Artificial Life By Intelligent Design", "Any Life On Mars Came From Earth!", "Creationists Right On Entropy, Evolution", "Are There Natural Limits To Evolution?", "Where Are All The Half-Evolved Dinosaurs?". The most up-to-date versions of these and other articles may be accessed at: Babu G. Ranganathan's Articles.
The author, Babu G. Ranganathan, is an experienced Christian writer. Mr. Ranganathan has his B.A. with academic concentrations in Bible and Biology from Bob Jones University. As a religion and science writer he has been recognized in the 24th edition of Marquis Who's Who In The East. The author's articles have been published in various publications including Russia's Pravda and South Korea's The Seoul Times. The author's website may be accessed at: www.religionscience.com.
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at 10:13 on June 14th, 2009
THIS IS IN THE MORMONS SCRIPTURES CALLED THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE--->
AFRICANS CURSED BLACK & CURSED FROM THE PRIESTHOOD
"..CURSED..to the Priesthood..being of the(BLACK AFRICAN)lineage by which he could not have the right of PRIESTHOOD(Abraham1:26-27)"
24..from(BLACK AFRICAN)Ham,sprang that race which preserved the CURSE in the land(Abraham1:23-24)
"..the LORD shall CURSE the land..A BLACKNESS came upon all the(BLACK AFRICANS)..of Canaan,that they were despised among all people..(Moses7:8)"
"..seed of Cain were BLACK,and had not place among them..(Moses7:22)"
THIS IS IN THE BOOK OF MORMON--->
THE MORMON GOD CURSING PEOPLE WITH DARK BLACK SKIN AS A CURSE The point is the SKIN COLOR IS DARK BLACK & it's A CURSE now go up to a BLACK OR DARK SKIN INDIAN MANS FACE & SAY THIS
"...cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing...the Lord God did cause a skin of BLACKNESS to come upon them (Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 5:21)"
"And the skins..were DARK,according to the MARK which was set upon their fathers..which WAS A CURSE upon them...(Book of Mormon,Alma 3:6)"
"and the CURSING which hath come upon their skins...(Book of Mormon, Jacob 3:5)"
THIS IS MORMON PROPHETS BACKING UP WHAT I AM SHOWING YOU ON THESE LDS MORMON SCRIPTURES
LDS MORMON PROPHET Brigham Young: "WHY are so many of the inhabitants of the earth CURSED with a SKIN of BLACKNESS ? It comes in consequence of their fathers rejecting the power of the holy Priesthood, AND THE LAWS OF GOD.(Journal of Discourses 11:272 & The Way to Perfection Pg.107)
"...the Lord God did cause a SKIN of BLACKNESS to come upon them (Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 5:21)"
"..A BLACKNESS came upon all the (BLACK AFRICANS)..of Canaan..(PEARL OF GREAT PRICE Moses7:8)"
"being of the (BLACK AFRICAN)lineage by which he could not have the right of PRIESTHOOD,(PEARL OF GREAT PRICE Abraham1:26-27)"
MORMON PROPHET Brigham Young said the Africans are the SEED of CAIN!
LDS MORMON PROPHET Brigham Young In a sermon given on March 8, 1863, Young stated:
"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the AFRICAN RACE? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of CAIN, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so" (Journal of Discourses, 10:110).
...Canaan,the son of Ham...hence the NEGRO or AFRICAN RACE...
(LDS MORMON APOSTLE Orson Hyde,
Nauvoo.April 27th,1845,printed in Liverpool, page 30)
"...The negro is damned...till God chooses to remove the curse of HAM"(LDS MORMON Prophet Brigham Young,New York Herald,May 4, 1855)
24..from(BLACK AFRICAN)Ham,sprang that race which preserved the CURSE in the land(pearl of great price Abraham1:23-24)
"...the LORD shall CURSE the land..A BLACKNESS came upon all the(BLACK AFRICANS)...of Canaan...(pearl of great price Moses7:8)"
LDS MORMON APOSTLE MARK E. PETERSON SAID LAMANITES & NEGROES HAVE THE SAME CURSE OF BLACK SKIN
"Who placed the Negroes originally in darkest Africa? Was it some man, or was it God? And when He placed them there, He segregated them....The Lord segregated the people ... At least in the cases of the LAMANITES and the NEGROES we have the definite word of the Lord Himself that He placed a dark skin upon them as a CURSE ... Race Problems--As They Affect The Church
by Mark E. Petersen 1954: Page 14
Key words are WHITE and DELIGHTSOME which means the SKIN!
"...wherefore, as they WERE WHITE...and DELIGHTSOME, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a SKIN OF BLACKNESS to come upon them (2 Nephi 5:21)."
LDS PROPHET Spencer W. Kimball said: I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today...they are now becoming WHITE and DELIGHTSOME, as they were promised...General Conference Report, October, 1960. Improvement Era,December 1960, pp. 922-923
LDS PROPHET Joseph Fielding Smith:"Ham, through Egyptus, continued the curse which was placed upon the seed of Cain. Because of that curse this dark race was separated and isolated from all the rest of Adam's posterity before the flood, and since that time the same condition has continued, and they have been 'despised among all people.' This doctrine did not originate with President Brigham Young but was taught by the Prophet Joseph Smith .... we all know it is due to his teachings that the negro today is barred from the Priesthood." The Way to Perfection, pages 110-111.
THIS IS LDS DOCTRINE!
LDS PROPHET JOHN TAYLOR:"...after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham's wife,as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? Because it was necessary that the DEVIL should have a representation a upon a the earth..."Journal of Discourses, Volume 22, page 304.
24...from Ham,sprang that race which preserved the curse in the land.(The Pearl of Great Price the Book of Abraham 1:23-24)
THIS IS NOT OPINIONS THIS IS LDS DOCTRINE
The introduction to the 1981(LDS) The Book of Mormon states,"The Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians."
LDS MORMON PROPHET Joseph Smith:
"...The Lamanites,through transgression, became a loathsome,ignorant and filthy people,and were CURSED with a SKIN of DARKNESS yet, they have the promise,if they will believe, and work righteousness...they shall become a WHITE and DELIGHTSOME people..."
:The Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star,vol.14, p. 418 "
"...they WERE WHITE...and DELIGHTSOME...Lord God did cause a SKIN OF BLACKNESS to come upon them (2 Nephi 5:21)."
THIS IS NOT OPINIONS THIS IS A LDS MORMON PROPHET SPEAKING ABOUT HOW HE KNOWS THE SEED OF CAIN CANT HAVE THE PRIESTHOOD BY QUOTING HIS MORMON SCRIPTURES!
...LDS President David O McKay in 1961 about the basis for the policy of restricting blacks from priesthood"he replied that it rested solely on The Book of Abraham That is the only reason,he said It is founded on that "("David O.McKay and Blacks,")
"being of the lineage by which he could not have the right of PRIESTHOOD,(Abraham 1:26-27)"
THIS IS NOT OPINIONS THIS IS A LDS MORMON PROPHET SPEAKING ABOUT HOW HE KNOWS THE SEED OF CAIN ARE BLACK BY QUOTING HIS SCRIPTURES!
President Joseph Fielding Smith wrote,"It was well understood by the early elders of the Church that the mark which was placed on Cain and which his posterity inherited was the black skin. The Book of Moses informs us that Cain and his descendants were black" (The Way to Perfection,p.107).
"...for the seed of Cain were BLACK...(Pearl of Great Price Moses 7:22)"
AND JUST TO ADD IN A MORMON APOSTLE TALKING ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE TO THE WHITE MISSIONARYS
LDS Mormon General Authority Alvin R. Dyer
“...you may have often heard missionaries say it or have asked the question: Why is a Negro a Negro?...The reason that spirits are born into Negro bodies is because those spirits rejected the Priesthood of God in the pre-existence. This is the reason why you have Negroes upon the earth.
(“For What Purpose?,” a talk given by Alvin R. Dyer at the Missionary Conference in Oslo, Norway, March 18, 1961, printed in The Negro in Mormon Theology, pp. 48-58)
“...I want to talk to you a little bit now about something that is not missionary work, and what I say is NOT to be given to your investigators by any matter of means.... Why is it that you are white and not colored?...and not born a Chinese or a Hindu, or a Negro? Is God such an unjust person that He would make you white and free and make a Negro CURSED under the CURSING OF CAIN that he sould not hold the Priesthood...
( Alvin R. Dyer at the Missionary Conference in Oslo,Norway, March 18, 1961)
THEN A LDS CHURCH PAPER TALKING ABOUT BLACK SKIN IS BAD AND WHITE SKIN IS GOOD
“...A BLACK SKIN IS A MARK OF THE CURSE OF HEAVEN... Some, however, will argue that a black skin is not a curse...In fact, some have been so foolish as to believe and say that a black skin is a blessing, and that the negro is the finest type of a perfect man that exists on the earth; but to us such teachings are foolishness. We understand that when God made man in his own image and pronounced him very good, that he made him white...”
(LDS MORMON Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 3, page 157)
AND A MORMON PROPHET SAYING CAIN IS CURSED WITH BLACK SKIN
LDS MORMON PROPHET JOSEPH F. SMITH "Not only was Cain called upon to suffer,but because of his wickedness he became the father of an inferior race. A curse placed upon him and that curse has been continued through his lineage and must do so while time endures.Millions of souls have come into this world cursed with a black skin and have been denied the privilege of Priesthood and the fullness of the blessings of the Gospel.These are the descendants of Cain..." The Way to Perfection,pages 101-102.
THIS IS MORMON DOCTRINE THAT BLACK AFRICAN MEN THE SEED OF CAIN CAN NOT HOLD THE PRIESTHOOD IT IS FROM YOUR MORMON GOD!
1947 the First Presidency (supreme council) of the Church issued an Official Statement:
"From the days of the Prophet Joseph Smith even until now, it has been the doctrine of the Church, never questioned by Church leaders, that the Negroes are not entitled to the full blessings of the Gospel." (Statement of The First Presidency on the Negro Question, July 17 1947, quoted in Mormonism and the Negro, pp.46-7)
In 1949, The First Presidency issued the following statement:
"The attitude of the Church with reference to Negroes remains as it has always stood. It is not a matter of the declaration of a policy but of direct commandment from the Lord, on which is founded the doctrine of the Church from the days of its organization, to the effect that Negroes may become members of the Church but that they are not entitled to the priesthood at the present time." (The First Presidency on the Negro Question, 17 Aug. 1949)
THIS IS MORMON DOCTRINE THAT BLACK AFRICAN MEN THE SEED OF CAIN CAN COME DOWN TO EARTH AS NEGROES AND THAT HANDICAP KEEPS THEM FROM HOLDING THE PRIESTHOOD
Official Statement of First Presidency issued on August 17, 1951, reads:
"The position of the Church regarding the Negro may be understood when another doctrine of the church is kept in mind, namely, that the conduct of spirits in the pre-mortal existence has some determining effect upon the conditions and circumstances under which these spirits take on mortality, and that while the details of this principle have not been made known, the principle itself indicates that the coming to this earth and taking on mortality is a privilege that is given to those who maintained their first estate; and that the worth of the privilege is so great that spirits are willing to come to earth and take on bodies no matter what the handicap may be as to the kind of bodies they are to secure; and that among the handicaps, failure of the right to enjoy in mortality the blessings of the priesthood is a handicap which spirits are willing to assume in order that they might come to earth. Under this principle there is no injustice whatsoever involved in this deprivation as to the holding of the priesthood by the Negroes.....
"Man will be punished for his own sins and not for Adam's transgression. If this is carried further, it would imply that the Negro is punished or allotted to a certain position on this earth, not because of Cain's transgression, but came to earth through the loins of Cain because of his failure to achieve other stature in the spirit world."
THIS IS A MORMON PROPHET VERIFYING THE MORMON DOCTRINE THAT BLACKS DID SOMETHING WRONG IN THE pre-mortal existence and were PUNISHED FROM THE PRIESTHOOD
JOSEPH F. SMITH
"There is a reason why one man is born black and with other disadvantages, while another is born white with great advantage. The reason is that we once had an estate before we came here, and were obedient, more or less, to the laws that were given us there. Those who were faithful in all things there received greater blessings here, and those who were not faithful received less.... There were no neutrals in the war in heaven. All took sides either with Christ or with Satan. Every man had his agency there, and men receive rewards here based upon their actions there, just as they will receive rewards hereafter for deeds done in the body. The Negro, evidently, is receiving the reward he merits." Doctrines of Salvation, Volume 1, pages 66-67.
"That negro race, for instance, have been placed under restrictions because of their attitude in the world of spirits, few will doubt. It cannot be looked upon as just that they should be deprived of the power of the Priesthood without it being a punishment for some act, or acts, performed before they were born." The Way to Perfection, page 43.