Comments by "Arnold Hubbert" (@arnoldhubbert6779) on "ReligionForBreakfast" channel.

  1. Your understanding isn't quite correct. From the Church website: "The question is raised hundreds of times each year throughout the Church: Are Church members literal descendants of Israel, as most patriarchal blessings state? Or are we Gentiles and belong to the house of Israel only by adoption? The answer is important, for the literal seed of Abraham are the natural heirs to the remarkable promises given anciently to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Most members of the Church understand the principles of heirship and adoption, but they often misunderstand the meaning of some key terms in the scriptures... we can see that the lineages declared in patriarchal blessings are almost always statements of actual blood lines; they are not simply tribal identifications by assignment... From what the prophets have said, then, most members of the Church come from Gentile nations, but they have some Israelite ancestors in their lineage. Therefore, they are not “assigned to” or “adopted into” the house of Israel."
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