Christopher Bigelow <chrisbigelow@???> wrote:
As abhorrent as it is to think about, does anyone have any proof that
NO person born black in mortality was somehow neutral, or close to it,
in premortality, and that the two traits aren't somehow causally
linked? Logically, I don't find it hard to imagine that this has
possibly been the case with at least one child of God.Do we have any proof, scripturally, that there was any sort of neutrality in the pre-existence? I don't remember any revelation that even hints that this third path was possible. Instead we find the Lord saying in this life, "If you're not with me, you're against me." Why would have he taken any different of a position then?
The absence of evidence either way, doesn't justify a racially charged doctrine. If there had been a revelation, that would be a different matter, but as it is there wasn't. Imagining or speculating has no place in a conversation like this. So it is not fair to anyone with a racially diverse heritage to make the assumption that race has anything to do with how their Heavenly Father views them-- it's a non-issue according to The Book of Mormon, "For none of these iniquities come of the Lord; for he doeth that which is good among the children of men; 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). The Lord denieth none, even when his servants do.
--Mahonri Stewart
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