A History of Lies, Deceit, Scripture Flip-Flops, Partial Changes / View PDF Tract / The Older The Bolder – Marshall Almarode
Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon equates black skin color with a curse put on these people by God. These people have dark skin as a sign like Cain due to their own decision to harden their hearts against God. They are given dark or black skin color so that they will not be attractive to those who are godly and have white skin color. Anyone who marries a person with dark skin will be cursed equally for this transgression. The Book of Mormon states that if these people would only repent, their skin color will change to reflect their godliness. Their skin color will become “white and delightsome.”
Book of Mormon
2 Nephi 5:21-25, “And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them. And thus saith the Lord God: I will cause that they shall be loathsome unto thy people, save they shall repent of their iniquities. And cursed shall be the seed of him that mixeth with their seed; for they shall be cursed even with the same cursing. And the Lord spake it, and it was done. And because of their cursing which was upon them they did become an idle people, full of mischief and subtlety, and did seek in the wilderness for beasts of prey. And the Lord God said unto me: They shall be a scourge unto thy seed, to stir them up in remembrance of me; and inasmuch as they will not remember me, and hearken unto my words, they shall scourge them even unto destruction.”
3 Nephi 2:14, “And it came to pass that those Lamanites who had united with the Nephites were numbered among the Nephites.”
3 Nephi 2:15-16, “And their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites; And their young men and their daughters became exceedingly fair.”
II Nephi 30:6, “And then shall they rejoice; for they shall know that it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and their scales of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a pure and a delightsome people.”
2 Ne 30:7, “And it shall come to pass that the Jews which are scattered also shall begin to believe in Christ; and they shall begin to gather in upon the face of the land; and as many as shall believe in Christ shall also become a delightsome people.”
2 Ne 30:7, “And it shall come to pass that the Jews which are scattered also shall begin to believe in Christ; and they shall begin to gather in upon the face of the land; and as many as shall believe in Christ shall also become a delightsome people.”
W of M 1:8, “And my prayer to God is concerning my brethren, that they may once again come to the knowledge of God, yea, the redemption of Christ; that they may once again be a delightsome people.”
3 Ne 2:15, “And their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites.”
Doctrine and Covenants (D&C)
Declaration #2, “Accordingly, all worthy male members of the Church may be ordained to the priesthood without regard for race or color.” This supposedly gives Blacks equal rights in Mormonism but doesn’t erase any of the scriptures that have been in place since the beginning.
Pearl of Great Price
The Pearl of Great Price teaches that black skin is descendant from the seed of Cain.
Moses 7:22, “And Enoch also beheld the residue of the people which were the sons of Adam; and they were a mixture of all the seed of Adam save it was the seed of Cain, for the seed of Cain were black, and had not place among them.”
The most “Changed” scripture in Mormonism
I want to return to one passage in the Book of Mormon. This passage has been quoted extensively by many Mormon prophets and apostles in defense of prejudice from 1920 to 1981. It has been changed over the years but was originally “White” in the Printer Manuscript.
II Nephi 30:6, “And many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a (white) (pure) and a delightsome people.”
Some who are not careful will think that the two words “white” and “pure” mean the same. Not so. One is a color and the other is a condition. Purity is not a color. You cannot get a can of pure at the paint store. You can say pure white or pure black, but you can’t say white pure or black pure. For years, Mormon prophets and apostles have referred to “white and delightsome” as the skin color of the righteous and “dark and loathsome” as the skin color of the ungodly. Changing “white” to “pure” drastically changes the meaning.
The following is a list of dates of the changes:
Edition Page number Word Used
The Printer Ms. 91 White
1830 117 White
1837 125 White
1840 115 Pure
1842 115 Pure
1879 122 White
1920 102 White
1981 112 Pure
The Printer’s Manuscript matches the first edition. The printer didn’t make this mistake.
Eugene J. Neff, Conference Report, April 1927, p.49
The first missionaries went from this section around to another little town on the east side of the island, and there they gathered in a grass hut one hundred people to hear the message of these strange white men, As they all sat around the mat and heard the voice of this missionary from Utah, they were transfigured before George Q. Cannon, and he saw ninety-seven of them become white, and three of them remained dark. He did not understand. He did not know why it was that three of them would remain dark and all the rest should become light. He received a partial answer to this manifestation when it was learned that ninety-seven of those people in meeting at this time joined the Church, became devout members, lived and died Latter-day Saints, while three of them never did. It is said that they will become a white and delightsome people. They are delightsome at present, and I believe they are going to become white. They are growing whiter from year to year. I have said to myself and to some of my intimate friends that I thought the Hawaiian people would become white and delightsome, through intermarriage.
Spencer W. Kimball, Conference Report October 1960, p.34
“The day of the Lamanites is nigh. For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised. In this picture of the twenty Lamanite missionaries, fifteen of the twenty were as light as Anglos; five were darker but equally delightsome. The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation. Spencer W. Kimball, at one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl—sixteen—sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents—on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather. There was the doctor in a Utah city who for two years had had an Indian boy in his home who stated that he was some shades lighter than the younger brother just coming into the program from the reservation. These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness.”
It is obvious that Mormon leaders believed that the skin color was turning WHITE NOT PURE. Questions to ask: Was the Prophet Spenser W. Kimball deceived about skin color changing? When did the Book of Mormon print the scripture correctly? Is the Manuscript and first edition correct or is the current version correct?
