Re: [TruthTalk] Old hebrew Coins found in Kentucky?

[Kevin Deegan]

So you are a deacendant of Aaron?

Blaine Borrowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Blaine:  My comments are in blue--scroll down

 

 

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In a message dated 3/10/2004 5:55:17 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

You are probably right about one thing, the Southern Baptists would not believe anything they had not heard inculcated into their minds by tradition,  repetition, and  the fear of the boys with the hoods who burn crosses in your front yard if you disagree with them or have a little color to your skin. (:>)  But that has nothing to do with the truth, which I would represent as being far whiter than the sheets the good ol' boys use to cover their sinful depradations against those whose come-uppance they most dreadfully fear.  

How many blacks are in the Mormon  church and when were they allowed to be a part of the fellowship?   

 

Blaine:  There is no way of knowing for sure how many Blacks are members of the LDS faith, since color is not listed on membership records.  However, in Ghana, Africa alone, there were 17, 278 members as of the publication of the 2000 Deseret News  Church Almanac, most of them Black.  The same book lists 81, 962 members in West Africa, and another 50,780 members in South East Africa, with most African nations being represented. There are currently three temples in Africa, the latest one to be dedicated being in Accra, Ghana--this  temple represents about 25 stakes, or about 150 wards, as well as about 200 smaller branches.

 

 

Not all Baptist are as described above.   Actully most are not.   But if you live in a glass house, you really shouldn't throw stones.   The Mormon church is the only religion in America that excluded blacks as a matter of denominational structure.  The Baptist church in the North had black brethren at the same time the hypocrites in the South did not.

Blaine: As a matter of unofficial church dogma--tradition--Blacks in the South were  disallowed from attending White churches, schools, even most public places, e.g., restaurants and school buses.

 

In the North, although Blacks were allowed full membership in Baptist and other Protestant denominations, the prevailing philosophy was to keep them separate--but equal.  In other words, distance was placed between them and Whites in almost all instances. 

 

 But blacks were excluded from the Mormon church (at least as leaders) as a matter of church dogma.

John

 

Blaine:  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints never did exclude Blacks from membership, just the priesthood.  Other than this ban,  Blacks were well treated as Church members.  But what's the big deal?  The Israelites--God's chosen people-- banned all tribes from holding the priesthood except the tribe of Levi, and only those descended from Aaron himself could hold the highest office in that priesthood--that of High Priest.

 

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