How Did the Book of Jasher Know?
Critics frequently state, or imply that LDS scholars are not real scholars. LDS scholarship is biased. Mormon church-owned company buys huge swath of Florida land Orlando Sentinel November 8, – Relevance: The megapurchase was announced jointly Thursday by a corporate representative of church, which owns the nearly , acre Deseret Ranches in Central Florida, and by the real-estate and timber business, which has built several communities along the Panhandle coast.
Researchers have found that most of those investigators have one thing in common:
The Temple. Within the temple the most important and sacred LDS ordinances are performed. Regardless of a person’s righteousness, without these ordinances, they cannot attain the highest degree of God’s glory in the hereafter.
Links Member beliefs Most Latter-day Saints are fully aware that black men were excluded from the priesthood from its inception till It was largely taught in the Church that up through the s blacks were denied the priesthood because they were from the lineage of Cain, who was cursed with a black skin after killing his brother Abel. People were born black because they were less valiant in the pre-existence. The ban on blacks holding the priesthood was reversed due to revelation received by the prophet Spencer W.
Kimball in and was not due to the civil rights movement. Prospective converts, even black ones, are not told about the prior priesthood ban on blacks. The Church doesn’t deny it but prefers not to discuss it. The Church has not admitted that the original ban was a mistake nor has it offered any form of apology. The leaders say the proclamation took care of that. Some current members believe that the ban was wrongly instituted by Brigham Young and was not really God’s will. Others believe it was God’s will and the reasons were as many of the leaders taught for years, that blacks were cursed and less valiant in the pre-existence.
Many other Latter-day Saints believe it was God’s will but they do not know the reason.