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Expert: Michael Kelley - 10/14/2007
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Hey,
Thanks for doing this, you seem to be a good fellow.
I came across an old response you sent out concerning black people. you said,
"What this mark was nobody really knows, however it had to have been visually obvious. If the theory of the LDS is true that it this was where the African nations came through... how do they explain the continuation of these peoples after the flood of Noah which would have surely destroyed them all?"
in the pearl of great price it says (Abraham 1:23)
23 The land of Egypt being first discovered by a woman, who was the daughter of Ham, and the daughter of Egyptus, which in the Chaldean signifies Egypt, which signifies that which is forbidden;
24 When this woman discovered the land it was under water, who afterward settled her sons in it; and thus, from Ham, sprang that race which preserved the curse in the land.
25 Now the first government of Egypt was established by Pharaoh, the eldest son of Egyptus, the daughter of Ham, and it was after the manner of the government of Ham, which was patriarchal.
Any way it goes on to say how the decedents of Ham set up a system to imitate the priesthood. (they didn't have the priesthood but knew it was the best system so they tried to imitate it.)
Well, hope this was helpful.
Marty
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Hi Marty,
Thanks for the info. I have a problem accepting the Pearl of Great Price as scripture because of many reasons, mainly because Joseph Smith was told to pretend to no other gift than the gift to translate the Book of Mormon because no other gift shall be given. All of the works after the Book of Mormon seem to bear this out in that spurious or contradictory doctrines seem to exist in all of the works after the Book of Mormon.
Thanks,
Mike
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