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From: russ@dadla-a.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: What are Mormons
Message-ID: <344@dadla-a.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 10:11:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 23 10:11:44 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jun-83 13:35:50 EDT
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The some sort of special communication with God that you refer to is just
that the President of the church is considered to be a prophet like prophets
in the Bible. There is no reason why that type of communication is limited
to ancient times except for lack of faith.

As far as the decision to allow the blacks to receive the priesthood, it
was always known in the church that the blacks would receive that opportunity
some day, but it was not know when. It would also not seem to be politically
motivated since 1978 was a rather quite period relative to complaints about
the Church's stand relative to the blacks. But all decisions could be
suggested to be politically or otherwise motivated as long as the assumption
is that he is not a prophet.