It was my investigation of the church that made me leave.

@@tdubs5128 Investigation is shallow

@@benzun9600 you have no idea of the depth of my investigation.

@@tdubs5128 still just an investigation by mind of man

@@tdubs5128 Sorry you feel that way Steve, and I sincerely hope you find what you're looking for in your life. I can only speak to the profound positive effect that the Church has had on me and my family. I sincerely believe that President Nelson and other leaders are not trying to deceive us, but rather are truly called of God. It saddens me to see some who choose to leave the Church because of a few things they might not understand or doubt despite the many evidences that support the truthfulness of the Church. I have found that, for every reason which might cause doubt, there are thousands of reasons that cause belief if we are looking! I believe there is no reasonable explanation for the Book of Mormon and the many things that Joseph Smith got right other than what he claimed. Ultimately, we can learn the truth of all things by the power of the Holy Ghost as taught in the Bible and BOM. I hope one day you will have a change of heart. Best wishes.

They should be the ones running this country!!

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The office of Prophet ended in 70 AD.

Surely the lord God will do nothing except he reveal his secret to his servant the prophet AMOS 3:7

Except for walls very high to block out anyone whose LGBTQ.

What????

Nicole Malmberg really I live in Maryland Everyone in our ward LGBTQ isn’t blocked Everyone here is welcome loved and deeply respected

Here's the story of a black LDS sister from the mid 1800's: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aMlmmrxotsy4aJ8.html&

You need to look up the history of this church in terms of its beliefs about black people. Ever wonder why they couldn’t receive the priesthood until the 70’s?

Seems god calls old white men from Salt Lake City a lot most of which work for church owned businesses 🧐

@@noahcutshaw9856 you need to look up the history of all christian churches. they never allowed black folks to even worship in the same building with white folks yet the church of jesus christ was against slavery, blacks were welcome from day one and even ordained to the priesthood, something happened after joseph was murdered and they were no longer allowed to hold the priesthood yet were still welcome to worship along side white folks....other christian churches stayed segregated long into the 60s. this is all out there , maybe you should do some real research before you make a fool of yourself.

The Barretts you don’t seem to see the difference. If the members Christian Church were being racist, that is their fault. It is an entirely different thing for the lds church to say that God was being racist.

Noah Cutshaw agreed this doctrine in the Mormon church was from a prophet speaking to god. Other church’s didn’t claim that but were racist because the people were racist.

If tanning never brought cancer to our skin, we'd have a lot more black skinned people. People love the kiss of the sun.

Brother Glen, our Church IS a beautiful rainbow of skin colors! ;) (Even right here in Happy Valley our ward is very diverse & very unified.) I see your point though. Keep doing your missionary work! ♡

Angela Fields Yes Angela! We are of one heart. 💛💛

True prophet of God.💯💯❤😍

Luke 16:16 the laws and prophets were untill john the babtist at that time the gospel was being preached and everyone was pressing in to it

Thank you for sharing your comment!

White supremacy and racism are not compatible with living the gospel.This has been stated many times and the prophet Russell M. Nelson has declared this as well.

Didn't you listen to the speech? You'd know if you listened.

@@uthinkiamhot No they don't! They have never taught that. It's like the articles of faith. We believe that men will be punished for the own sins, and not for Adam's transgressions. The dark skin was a curse against them only. Those people also repented, and became more righteous the Nephites. Never have I ever heard a church leader say that dark skin is unclean.

@@uthinkiamhot Laugh all you want. Doesn't hurt my feelings. I suggest you look for confirmation from the Lord about the truth of the book. You can attack the church all you want, but will never fall.

@@raymullings514 It will never fall, until it runs plum out of Idiots to hold up it's pants--and, there are endless new crops of Idiots, to buy their Hallucinogens!

Hi Al, The "curse," you are referring to was a way that God could temporarily separate the people who choose to really love God, from those who didn't at that time. If everyone intermarried at that time, it would preserve paganism, and would destroy the Church of God. Lehi also told his grandchildren, that the "curse" will be taken from you and will rest upon the heads of your parents. "But behold, my sons and my daughters, I cannot go down to my grave save I should leave a blessing upon you; for behold, I know that if ye are brought up in the way ye should go ye will not depart from it. 6 Wherefore, if ye are cursed, behold, I leave my blessing upon you, that the cursing may be taken from you and be answered upon the heads of your parents. 7 Wherefore, because of my blessing the Lord God will not suffer that ye shall perish; wherefore, he will be merciful unto you and unto your seed forever." 2Nephi 4:5-7 There is also this great scripture: "...and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile." 2 Nephi 26:33 I hope this helps clarify some misunderstanding. God bless you brother! If you want to know more about how God loves all of us regardless of race, etc., Go to churchofjesuschrist.org for more info

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Bobby Watt, exactly ! ... and?

Al Rei God loves all men equally and always desires for us to unite together, and to come unto Him. When the people in the Book of Mormon united in the cause for Christ, they were blessed and none were considered Lamanites or any type of "ites": 4 Nephi 1:15-18. Likewise in this day, God blesses us when we choose to build bridges and unite for good.

Alexandra Brown Franco I appreciate your insight I just have a hard time embracing the BoM when it says dark skin being a curse, and all the other racist verses, how do you get pass that? I’d like to know, need help with that one all my family is in it i don’t think they ever read it

Al Rei I love the quote, "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there." Just like going to another country might mean we have to adjust our point of view, when we read the scriptures we have to remember that those were times hundreds of years ago, where words may have had different meanings and "light" versus "dark" skin may have meant different things to those people in that time. I too am uncomfortable whenever I read about the "white" versus "dark" or "black" people in the scriptures, but we have to remember that the past was different than now. The color of their skin did not make them evil or righteous, but their choices were what defined them. If you read the Book of Mormon closely, you will see that when the people obey God's commandments, they are blessed. When they don't, they are choosing to reject God. There are many times when God even speaks to the people and tells them that the Lamanites are more blessed than others because they are more righteous. God always wants us on His side, and will embrace us if we want to be. One amazing example of this is when Samuel, a prophet who is actually a Lamanite, is sent by God to teach the Nephites: Helaman chapters 13-16.

either be on the side of peace and bridge building or get left in the dust. your hatered seeps through your statement.

After hearing his words in this speech, what would you say?

@@oneillrt Holy Spirit is the mouthpiece of the Father.

No, he is not the living God.

@@midgetsmommy What are you talking about?

Or maybe your lacking true feeling.

Living in the past can be that event upon which hatred is built. We need to learn from the past. None of us is without sin. John 8:7 says, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone ...." So, all of you who are without sin, go ahead and cast your stones at a man that is showing love and affection to all who are brothers and sisters of our Heavenly Father.

@@Boneyardbound Bobby, The NAACP accepted at least one documented donation of $2,000.000.00 to one of its activities before allowing this gentleman to speak. That's a fact. He made a very nice speech. I won't judge either the sincerity of Dr. Nelson's sincerity or the sincerity of the NAACP Board of Directors that allowed him to speak. But being a Black Hispanic I will tell you that red flags fly when the name of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is mentioned. My understanding of your unique beliefs includes the fact that your Supreme Leader is a living prophet of God, right? So wasn't your Second Supreme Leader Brigham Young also a living Prophet when he was alive? I know that you are aware of the fact that in Brigham Young's Journal of Discourses the old racist wrote some very bad things about Black People that were obviously meant for Mormons to read? Don't say you have not read what Mr. Young wrote.....if half the Black People in the U.S.have. Read it? I sometimes email people copies of the filth that old racist wrote about Black People for their own edification. I ask you just one question:. If this good man/prophet/living God meant one single word that he paid $2,000,000.00 to say to a group of people that politely tolerated him: "Just why did this man just not disavow what that old racist Mr. Young said?" Isn't this gentleman supposed to be a Prophet? Or does he agree with what Young wrote so nearly 200 years ago? So, what is your answer? This is as far as I will take the matter, except with my own people. But I have one thing to ask about you Bobby? The logo next to your post is That of Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson, who might have won the American Civil War had he not been wounded by a Confederate sentry, and fortunately died. But in fairness to General Jackson he was against slavery and was one of many Confederate General Officer's that urged Confederate President Davis to free the slaves and then fire on Ft. Sumter as well as arming the slaves and putting them in line and engineer units. I don't doubt there are some very decent Mormon people. Dr. Nelson frankly seems nicer than some of the people hosting him! However, a good faith effort over a mutual dislike and distrust has a better chance of success if the evil act or acts are recognized and disavowed. But the Mormon Church never will ever admit their horrible choices of the past. Had Dr. Nelson had done that...,.maybe more than a few Black people would have actually listened to him, instead of our "Mormon Alert Red Flag Racist Alarms" going up......that prevented many people from even wanting to hear anything that this good man said. Thank you.

@@JaimeGarcia-pe7bj Thank you for some of your kind comments. Like I said, living in the past on items for which the Church has apologized belongs in the area of "forgiveness," which is said in Mark 11:25, "And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses." We need to resist calling people racist as it is an insult to those who are not, and for those who are, we must forgive. We need to live together with kindness and love, as our beloved Prophet has told us. We cannot unless we learn to forgive.

@@Boneyardbound ccr

Love does not have a start date.

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since day one, if you would have done your homework you would have known this. blacks worshiped alongside whites and even received the priesthood while all other christian churches were segregated into the 60s and 70s. humans are flawed and make mistakes, hopefully you wont be judged as harshly as you seem to judge others.

no. troll.

its been said and done many times, but you dont really care do you?

I sincerely doubt it was an intern who wrote his words....This man is amazing... an outstanding surgeon, a teacher, 94 years old - look no glasses| He speaks the truth. Give him a chance. Listen to his words. He can build everyone up. He is a true prophet of God and everyone can come closer to God by listening to his words. He brings the peace of Jesus Christ to the whole world.

he is not Jesus and doesn't claim to be. he writes his own talks and speeches.

Approach your stake president but do so in the right spirit.

hetrogamr84 That’s awful, hetro, so very sorry. If possible, don’t give up, go see the Stake President and tell him what’s going on as Matty suggests. We love you for reals; try not to let this alienate you. Hats off to you. 💛🤗

I went to my stake Prez. Its a good thing. :)

If you make an appointment with your bishop's executive secretary you and he can discuss the perceived slight. Bishoprics, and especially bishops, are very busy and may honestly have not noticed your efforts to say hello rather than intentionally ignoring you. Please give them the benefit of the doubt! I knew a sister who told me that our bishop not only refused to shake her hand, but had leaned over to smell her hair, and, enraged, she stopped attending church. When I confronted him in private on her behalf, I could tell he hadn't done either, and was even more creeped out by the second claim than I. He was just rushing to get to appointments!

Bishops very busy in service

I can't imagine a church leader being opposed to the support of the President. Could you share an example?

I read this speech earlier today and did not notice any references to the President of the United States. He only references the president of the NAACP. As I listen to it now, I can see what you might think to be jabs at the U.S. president, but I'm certain that President Nelson was not referring to President Trump specifically, just the general principle of segregating other people with metaphorical and literal walls that we might create.

​@@joshua_sykes To me it was abundantly clear that the remark about 'walls of segregation' starting at 2:11 was a not-so-subtle jab at the president. The tone and body language of President Nelson says it all. It's the same phraseology that all the world leaders use when they take a shot at President Trump. Makes me so tired implying that I have to choose one or the other, either the church or supporting the president.

@@mrlds3202 I like what our current US President has done for our economy. I do not like his tendency to bully and pick fights with those he dislikes at the moment. I support him for the office he holds, yet don't like his personality. It doesn't have to be either support the church or our current president. I fully support President Nelson as our Prophet - his words to the NAACP were exactly what I would expect them to be.

@@mrlds3202 You are aware that the word "segregation" was used in reference to segregating African-Americans from whites, well before President Trump was even born - Right? The word segregate did not originate with Trump, nor does he have sole claim to its use. To paint a picture using the phrase "walls of segregation", being used as President Nelson addresses the National Association for the Advancement of COLORED People clearly has reference to past bigotry and racism that started decades and centuries ago. There was nothing political about this speech (besides the call for citizens/governments to work better at not being racist), and there was definitely nothing directed or implied at the current President of the United States.

How sad that your perspective is so stained by prejudice and cynicism. I hope that you don't believe that the Lord was a wine-bibber and that His organisation (Church) was, in fact, established to undermine the Pharisaic, monopolistic stranglehold on the religion of the region and to wrest from them the accumulated wealth of the temple treasure, including the widow's mite? Watching this feels so invigorating and cleansing....A prophetic insight and the transparent and honest means to unite and reconcile a previously disenfranchised segment of American society.

Wasn't he saying that? Everything he said referenced following the Lord's instructions and example. He talked about we need to do as individuals to follow the Savior's example. Never once did he talk about glory being his, nor did he make any demands that people follow him.

@@bobg.3206 that still doesn't make him a true prophet.

@@tdubs5128 he is a true prophet of God.

@@parnz1105 obviously you and I disagree.

@@tdubs5128, I didn't say anything about him being a prophet. Your last phrase implied that what he was saying somehow took glory away from God and I simply stated that it does not.

Not sure that I do. Please enlighten me with your sinsight.

insight....