Tobin wrote:Themis, you'll always have that misconception about God. God permitted the LDS Church to teach a false doctrine banning blacks from the priesthood for over a century. Don't you think he would have clued in one of the LDS prophets - over all the time - that it was a false doctrine and not waited till 1978 to do it?!?Themis wrote:Perhaps they realize that to do so you have to make Joseph and God into dumb and dumber. Joseph being dumb enough to make it up and never think to ask God when he is claiming to do so on so many other issues. I wonder if he was not also claiming it here as well. You have God being dumber giving Joseph Abraham's story knowing he will attach it to the papyri and he will also have to give him explanations that are tailor made for the Egyptian facsimiles. Perhaps they think it is just to implausible.
Just another piece of evidence God wasn't involved. You still have to get over the idea that Joseph is asking God about so many other things but we can't have that here, and we also have to have God actually giving him Abraham's story and explanations for the facsimiles. You don't really have to have God telling them to ban blacks for it to be false doctrine. You just have to have them get it wrong on their own and for God to do nothing for over a century. The Book of Abraham God has to be more involved in making the mistakes. Opps.