LDS missionary explains the priesthood ban
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 8:07 pm
On the Mormon subreddit, an LDS service missionary used the spiritual flair to bear his testimony, and then got into a discussion about the priesthood ban that ended in 1978.
I haven't read such blatant racism since Midgley posted stuff like this. Is this a troll? Is this indicative of LDS youth today? Here are some excerpts:
I haven't read such blatant racism since Midgley posted stuff like this. Is this a troll? Is this indicative of LDS youth today? Here are some excerpts:
[LDS missionary]
I think it was because black people were so looked down upon back then that giving people with darker skin the priesthood would actually hurt the church more than it would help it so we had to wait until that wouldn't be the case
https://old.reddit.com/r/Mormon/comment ... y/iq674w4/
[response]
and that makes it ok? Do you think God was in favor of withholding blessings from Black people because it wouldn't be popular?
[LDS missionary]
There have been times in the past when he had to hurt someone to help the majority when it was the only option. I don't know if you know the story of Nephi and Laban but Laban was withholding the gold plates from Nephi and his brothers and they tried and tried to get it from him but he kept withholding it and that meant that God eventually had to have Nephi kill Laban. I know that seems really drastic and unnecessary but Laban was refusing to do something that would help save many people since those plates were part of the scriptures that we have today. If Laban got to do what he wanted then he would be resisting the salvation of many people. It's better for one person to die than for an entire nation to not have the gospel and potentially not be saved because of it. There was so much scrutiny against black people back then that giving them the priesthood could mean that way more people would leave the church and then not be saved in the end because of it. That means heavenly father was choosing to have more people saved in The end by withholding the priesthood from some of his children for a while so more people would believe and be saved in the end. They can still receive the priesthood in the next life and one reason why we should believe in this life is because when we don't have a physical body it is a lot harder to change. We will be resurrected eventually but by that point it would be too late to change our ways because we would be resurrected and then it would be the last day and we would be judged by God.
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[another response from the LDS missionary]
I don't think that it was so much the reputation, more that so many people would walk away from the church because of black people getting the priesthood, since the world looked down upon black people more back then, that the churches view was more on the side of so many losing their way by walking away. We didn't want to keep the priesthood away, but it was choosing the majority. It was something that the church didn't want to do because we view everyone as equal but the church still chose the people. It was something that made the church look racist because back then members would have walked away if black people got the priesthood. It was a choice of waiting to receive the priesthood, and losing souls.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Mormon/comment ... y/iq933kn/
[LDS missionary]
He doesn't play favorites with his children, I think if you looked up what the church has to say it would clear confusion but I'm sorry I do admit I don't know enough to clear your confusion very well here but the church could clear it up if you look up what they have to say. There's a lot of doctoring and it takes a lot of study to really understand the whole picture.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Mormon/comment ... y/iq6dcut/