Informal poll about skin color changes

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Informal poll about skin color changes

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Since the poll function doesn't work, this will be informal. How many of you were taught at some point in the church that black people would be white in heaven?

I was.
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I heard that Brigham Young quote one time about skin color being true white in heaven, or whatever.

I'm not sure if it was ever taught as an actual lesson or if this was something that was tossed around during lesson discussions.

Either way, I had heard of it at some point. (I'm in my 30s)
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I don't recall ever being taught that specifically. I think the assumption for most members was that the dark skin color was a curse for the negro and Lamanite races and that it would go away at some future time. Many members seemed to believe that you could actually make skin color changes in this life merely by practicing the gospel.
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Since the poll function doesn't work, this will be informal. How many of you were taught at some point in the church that black people would be white in heaven?

I was.


I've "taught" in Church, since the early 80's at least, that God might be/could be black. The logic is that since there are black people on this world, all of whom (past and present) are eligible for Godhood, there could be black people on other worlds similarly eligible. Therefore, God could have been a black person on another world who achieved Godhood.

As for the resurrection and skin color change, it's possible, but seems contrary to the scriptural teachings on the resurrection in which everything will be restored "as it is now, or in the body" (Alma 11:44).
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Good for you BC.


Since recent studies have indicated that there is more Neanderthal (up to 4% if I remember correctly) genetic material in modern white populations, against 0% in Modern Africans, then it is safe to say I think, that from a homo sapiens sapiens standpoint, it is the modern black man who is more purely human than we are ... Wonderfully ironic.
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I was.

To be honest, given my level of unrighteousness I should have turned black by now.
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Fence Sitter wrote:I don't recall ever being taught that specifically. I think the assumption for most members was that the dark skin color was a curse for the negro and Lamanite races and that it would go away at some future time. Many members seemed to believe that you could actually make skin color changes in this life merely by practicing the gospel.


This is my memory as well. There was never anything like a lesson aimed at just this question; what FS describes was pretty well assumed and thus filtered in to other commentary. SWK's remarks about Lamanites who turned lighter from being in the Lamanite Placement Program was brought up a lot in reference to the Native American children in our ward who were part of that program.
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Buffalo wrote: Since the poll function doesn't work, this will be informal. How many of you were taught at some point in the church that black people would be white in heaven?

I was.


I was taught that too while I was growing up within the LDS Church.
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bcspace wrote:
Since the poll function doesn't work, this will be informal. How many of you were taught at some point in the church that black people would be white in heaven?

I was.


I've "taught" in Church, since the early 80's at least, that God might be/could be black. The logic is that since there are black people on this world, all of whom (past and present) are eligible for Godhood, there could be black people on other worlds similarly eligible. Therefore, God could have been a black person on another world who achieved Godhood.

As for the resurrection and skin color change, it's possible, but seems contrary to the scriptural teachings on the resurrection in which everything will be restored "as it is now, or in the body" (Alma 11:44).


You are not going far enough here bc. IF what was deemed a curse was God tweaking DNA to promote a more robust mix to keep the generations from devolving into idiots by mixing opposites strains that were the result of God's deliberate ALTERATION, then not only of skin color, but all related features, such as hair etc. in the resurrection would be changed IN ORDER to be made perfect. All ALTERATIONS that were made MUST be removes so that the restoration is perfect.

The Lamanites were tweaked so that there would be a healthier mix on the islands where no other DNA would get introduced for a thousand years. Same with the children of Cannan who just happen to be descendants of Cain. They got picked on for deliberate alteration because they were the first people to commit open warfare.

In view of this enlightenment you may want to reconsider goosing the people about a possible black God. No offense intended just keeping it real.
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Re: Informal poll about skin color changes

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We are going to be a right regular Norse pantheon in the CK. All curses and skins of darkness will be cured.

At least according to what I have been taught.

The better questions are:

If not even a hair of our heads is to be lost, will we all look like sasquatch?

&

Will we have navels?
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