The purpose of this blog is to more easily facilitate gospel discussions and help all those who participate become more diligent in studying their scriptures. The way this works is that a question or thought will be posted every Sunday and will be the topic of discussion for that week. We invite all those who are interested to please share your thoughts. However, postings must include credible sources (scripture references, Ensign, Mormon Doctrine, etc) in order to be posted, and must be tagged with the appropriate labels. Aubrey is in charge of moderating all comments-they will not be posted until she approves them.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Will there be people of different race in heaven?

I have often wondered if there will be people of different race in heaven. My first initial thought was "yes, of course". But then I started thinking about how Joseph Smith said that they were brilliantly white, etc. and how one of the apostles said that the "official" picture of Christ did in fact look like him (and thus Heavenly Father looks like that). So, if we are created in the image of God, and he looks like that picture, then can there be race in heaven? The other thought is that darker skin is the sign of the curse that came upon the posterity of Cain for his sin (the actual curse was the removal of the priesthood from his line), so could there be dark skin because that was essentially a deformation?