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Originally Posted by stonewallperry
It's possible that all statements were made while speaking as prophet.
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So how do you reconcile it? Let's agree that the priesthood ban was from God and was doctrine.....
Joseph obviously decreed that all men could get the priesthood and is quoted as saying some highly progressive ideals about blacks.....
Five years after his death Brigham said that black men the seed of Cain, and said that black men could not receive the priesthood.....
Twenty years after Brigham's death Joseph Fielding Smith said that blacks were less faithful in the pre-life and thus were marked and weren't given the priesthood in the probation....
Soon after this, Harold B. Lee says, blacks will not receive the priesthood in my lifetime.....
Fifty years later, Gordon B. Hinckley says in priesthood, anyone who thinks that somebody isn't eligible for the priesthood based on skin color is a racist and that is abhorable before God....
So please, tell me why the change in doctrine. Why was it doctrine that men were equals regardless of color and slavery was abhorable, and than slavery was ok and blacks were subhumans, and than blacks were less faithful in the pre-existence, and than now it's not of God to withhold priesthood based on race....