The Ward Teacher
April 18, 2018[…] sin in killing his brother and entering a secret combination with Satan. Cain was a great big black man, Brother Fowles said, bigger than any ordinary man because he came from before the flood. […]
[…] sin in killing his brother and entering a secret combination with Satan. Cain was a great big black man, Brother Fowles said, bigger than any ordinary man because he came from before the flood. […]
[…] Court and its decision before either reading the opinion or getting the facts.” He agreed with Justice Black’s comment that ” ‘it is no part of the business of government to compose official prayers […]
[…] is denied it? The descendants of Cain, and the children of Canaan, who are described as being black (Moses 7:8, 22) and the descendants of Ham (Abr. 1:20, 22-24, 26-27), presumably all the same […]
[…] third-hand fifty-year recollections. Granted, as he indicates, that additional information is necessary to completely clear up the dating of this event, there is a question whether the evidence for the 1830 date is compelling […]
[…] in that school year of 1964 fall semester was a pre-announced talk by our bishop on interracial dating. It seemed to be an issue for him. A number of us showed up with non-Indian […]
One of the most vivid descriptions of the utter destruction of cities and the death of hundreds of thousands of people is found in 3 Nephi 8 of the Book of Mormon. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides,…
Section 82 of the Doctrine and Covenants, dated 26 April 1832, guided the formation of a united order in the Joseph Smith era. Until recently, code names were shown for the nine participants: Ahashdah (Newel…
[…] The assimilation of different peoples of this kind is surely a plus for a land-locked, religiously founded community. But religion creates its own prejudices; a literalist, narrow reading of the Bible still stands in […]
[…] not a frontier but rather an established sizeable community. He also tells us that Palmyra had a black population of forty six but fails to comment on the significance of this information. Other areas […]
The question this essay attempts to answer is whether the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible (JST) represents in any way a restoration of text that originally existed in ancient manuscripts but was later altered…