Skin of Blackness and Mormon Apologetics | LDS Discussions 58 | Ep. 1952
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
In this gripping third installment of our series, we dive deep into the Book of Mormon to unravel the true meaning of the cursed “Skin of Blackness." Are recent apologetic theories—claiming it's just paint, dark coats, or tattoos—offering genuine insights, or are they merely attempts to gloss over the text's troubling implications? Join us as we confront these arguments head-on and question whether we should trust the prophets or the apologists. Don’t miss this eye-opening discussion!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories |
| 0:04.1 | podcast LDS Discussions edition I am your host John Delin it's |
| 0:08.2 | Wednesday August 21st 2024 I'm officially 55 years old yesterday was my birthday and we're |
| 0:17.6 | excited to be back discussing Mormon Church Truth Claims as dispassionately and as objectively as is possible with this |
| 0:27.6 | LDS discussion series. Today we're going to be covering part three in a three part series on LDS discussions |
| 0:35.8 | where we're discussing both the Book of Mormon's teachings around the skin of blackness |
| 0:42.2 | or the curse of the Lamanites the Lamanite curse and how |
| 0:46.3 | modern day apologists like Jasmine oh how do I pronounce it? What's the correct pronunciation? |
| 0:54.0 | Rappley? |
| 0:55.0 | Rappley. |
| 0:56.0 | I can't remember. |
| 0:57.0 | Rappley. |
| 0:58.0 | Rappley. |
| 0:59.0 | How Jasmine Rappley and her husband, Neil, have done their best to pollute the waters, maybe not intentionally, but at least |
| 1:09.2 | unintentionally, to try and claim that when the Book of Mormon, because the skin of blackness teaching is so horrendous, so vile, so racist, |
| 1:20.0 | and that's just objective fact. |
| 1:23.0 | Modern-day Mormon apologists are trying to claim that when the Book of Mormon said, |
| 1:28.0 | skin of blackness, it meant animal furs or tattoos or paint and my friends Julia Harardo and |
| 1:39.0 | Nimo are having none of that and so we're bringing them back for part three. |
| 1:46.0 | Remember everyone that this LDS discussion series is best consumed in sequence. |
| 1:51.4 | This is like the 46th or something episode. Is that right in the |
| 1:56.9 | series and your best to benefit from it by going back to the beginning and watching them in sequence. |
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