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- Darkness is associated with things deathly, devilish, infernal, fallen, carnal, wicked, corrupt, intemperate, mournful, miserable, bitter, fettered, benighted, and ultimately ill-fated.
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Feb 14, 2024 · It is easy—even natural—for modern readers of the Book of Mormon to intuitively see contemporary sensibilities regarding race and skin color in passages about a “skin of blackness” or “dark skins,” but such interpretations are misplaced when reading an ancient text.
The first time we hear about the curse of dark or black skin in the Book of Mormon is 2 Nephi 5:21-23. It is said that God cursed the Lamanites with black skin so they would not be enticing unto the Nephites. Even though Alma 17:14 describes the Lamanites as being a wild, ferocious, plundering, robbing, and.
Three Days of Darkness. The three days of darkness symbolized the death of Jesus Christ, who is “the light and the life of the world” (3 Nephi 11:11). Mormon emphasized that the three days of darkness was “a sign” given of the Savior’s death (see 1 Nephi 19:10; Helaman 14:27; 3 Nephi 8:23).
May 27, 2011 · Many juxtapositions of light and darkness are identifiable in latter-day scripture. Darkness was apparently the primeval condition ( Gen. 1:2; Moses 2:2; Abr. 4:2 ). Light was introduced by the divine word: "Let there be light: and there was light" ( Gen. 1:3; Moses 2:3; Abr. 4:3 ).
Book of Mormon Language about Skin Color: The curse is expressed in two antithetically parallel phrases: “as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them” (2 Ne. 5:21). The phrases describe a previous condition and its succeeding condition, pivoting upon causation.
The account of the first Christmas in the Book of Mormon helps us learn that Jesus Christ is the “light which shineth in darkness” (see Doctrine and Covenants 10:57–61).
