Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
There has been a lot of talk recently about race in the Book of Mormon. some scholars have recently offered alternative explanations for what some believe are racial statements in the Book of Mormon. Today I'd like to propose another.
There are apologists who have attempted explain the skin of blackness as non-racist in a variety of ways, and to be clear, everyone needs to come to their own conclusion and find peace in whatever they believe. These apologists have said that perhaps the skin of blackness were tattoos, or skin paint, or even dark clothing rather then their skin actually turning black. But these explanations for some make little sense, especially when later in the Book of Mormon the curse is removed. Does that mean God removed tattoos or allowed them to wear different colored clothing? But that still leaves us with, for some, an uncomfortable situation regarding black skin in the book of Mormon and how it is portrayed, especially when looking through a modern day lens. Could there be another explanation to all this?
This video explores an alternative to the race allegations against the Book of Mormon casting members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as racist.
There has been a lot of talk recently about race in the Book of Mormon. some scholars have recently offered alternative explanations for what some believe are racial statements in the Book of Mormon. Today I'd like to propose another.
There are apologists who have attempted explain the skin of blackness as non-racist in a variety of ways, and to be clear, everyone needs to come to their own conclusion and find peace in whatever they believe. These apologists have said that perhaps the skin of blackness were tattoos, or skin paint, or even dark clothing rather then their skin actually turning black. But these explanations for some make little sense, especially when later in the Book of Mormon the curse is removed. Does that mean God removed tattoos or allowed them to wear different colored clothing? But that still leaves us with, for some, an uncomfortable situation regarding black skin in the book of Mormon and how it is portrayed, especially when looking through a modern day lens. Could there be another explanation to all this?
This video explores an alternative to the race allegations against the Book of Mormon casting members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as racist.
