024 Q&R! Tough Questions with Paul Reeve

Church History Matters

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Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Some people see a connection between the Church’s past restrictive policy towared blacks in the Church and the Church’s current restrictive policy toward gays in the Church—specifically prohibiting gay temple marriage. In what ways are these two issues similar and in what ways are they different? How can church members reconcile (a) the teaching that the prophet / president won't ever lead the church astray with (b) the fact that church presidents for over a century taught false doctrine about blacks? How might the scriptural basis of the Lamanites being cursed with a “skin of blackness” (2 Ne 5:21) have influenced early church leaders’ thoughts on justifying the initial priesthood and temple restrictions? And what should we make of that curse anyway? Why didn't God clearly communicate earlier to his prophets that it was His will that ALL His children would receive the blessings of the priesthood and the temple? In this episode of Church History Matters, we dive into all of these questions and more with Dr. Paul Reeve, as scholar on race in Latter-day Saint history. For show notes and transcript for this and other episodes go to https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org/church-history-matters-podcast/

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0:00.0	Some people see a connection between the churches pass restrictive policy toward blacks in the church and the church's current restrictive policy towards gays in the church,
0:14.3	specifically prohibiting gay temple marriage.
0:17.3	In what ways are these two issues similar, and in what ways are they different?
0:22.1	How can church members reconcile A, the teaching that the Prophet won't ever lead the church astray,
0:27.4	with B the fact that church presidents for over a century taught false doctrine about blacks.
0:33.2	How might the scriptural basis of the Lamanites being cursed with a skin of blackness have influenced
0:38.3	early church leaders' thoughts on justifying the initial priesthood and temple restrictions, and what should we make of that
0:44.0	curse anyway?
0:45.6	And why didn't God clearly communicate earlier to His prophets that it was His will that all
0:50.2	his children would receive the blessings of the priesthood in the temple.
0:54.2	In today's episode of Church History Matters, we dive into all these questions and more with
0:59.2	our special guest Dr. Paul Reeve, a scholar on race in Latter-day Saint History.
1:04.0	I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffiths.
1:07.5	And today we dive into our seventh and last episode in this series,
1:11.5	dealing with race and priesthood. Now let's get into it. Hello and welcome everybody this is exciting this is the end of our
1:26.9	series on race and priesthood and temple I have some good news and I have some bad
1:32.0	news bad news is Casey is gone again today.
1:36.0	I don't know what is about our Q&R episodes, but no he had an important family thing he needed to be too, so we will miss Casey dearly.
1:43.4	But the good news is that we are here with Paul Reeve.
1:46.7	Paul, welcome.
1:47.7	Yeah, thank you.
1:48.7	It's a pleasure to be with you.
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