... if Mormons considered the covenent fulfilled and Europeans the real Jews...
They consider the old covenant fulfilled, but there is no racial aspect to who the New Covenant's people are/can be. The doctrine is that you're adopted into the House of Israel, with a tribe assigned by a patriarch. There's no barrier to entry except that many will be called and few chosen.
To my mind, that's why the LDS leadership is sleep-walking the process of choosing the world. They're trying to convert everyone, save everyone. It's very evangelical. Yet by trying to go mainstream, the master of the world, the Adversary, gains a say in corrupting them. Osmosis vs Reverse Osmosis of evil, basically. Bog standard spiritual warfare.
They fund tons of immigrant sponsorship groups and try to convert non-whites all over the world to their faith.
Right. As I addressed above, large swaths of the LDS are totally naïve as regards race (both Black and JQ)-- the mainstream LDS lacks the theological basis to be otherwise after the decision to open the Priesthood in the seventies. Most of the 1800s sensibilities were assumed by the founders of the church, and not written into the doctrines. What little doctrine there was (like the priesthood restrictions) have been written out since.
Then you have your Romneys, Sandersons, and Becks-- ticket-takers, basically.
Both issues exploit the biggest weakness of the LDS: wolves are in the fold, so to speak, and there's no mechanism to deal with it internally.
They consider the old covenant fulfilled, but there is no racial aspect to who the New Covenant's people are/can be. The doctrine is that you're adopted into the House of Israel, with a tribe assigned by a patriarch. There's no barrier to entry except that many will be called and few chosen.
To my mind, that's why the LDS leadership is sleep-walking the process of choosing the world. They're trying to convert everyone, save everyone. It's very evangelical. Yet by trying to go mainstream, the master of the world, the Adversary, gains a say in corrupting them. Osmosis vs Reverse Osmosis of evil, basically. Bog standard spiritual warfare.
Right. As I addressed above, large swaths of the LDS are totally naïve as regards race (both Black and JQ)-- the mainstream LDS lacks the theological basis to be otherwise after the decision to open the Priesthood in the seventies. Most of the 1800s sensibilities were assumed by the founders of the church, and not written into the doctrines. What little doctrine there was (like the priesthood restrictions) have been written out since.
Then you have your Romneys, Sandersons, and Becks-- ticket-takers, basically.
Both issues exploit the biggest weakness of the LDS: wolves are in the fold, so to speak, and there's no mechanism to deal with it internally.