[Colofornian]

In 1971, Church President Spencer W. Kimball said that Lehi, the family patriarch, was "the ancestor of all of the Indian and Mestizo tribes in North and South and Central America and in the islands of the sea." After testing the DNA of more than 12,000 Indians, though, most researchers have concluded that the continent's early inhabitants came from Asia across the Bering Strait.

So, the then "living prophet" was wrong, mistaken? (If he was off-base on this, where else?)

[colorcountry]

I remember reading this scripture and being told that the land was kept pure as the “land of promise” to Lehi and his family.

2 Nephi 1:8 And behold, it is wisdom that this land should be kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations; for behold, many nations would overrun the land, that there would be no place for an inheritance.
9 Wherefore, I, Lehi, have obtained a promise, that inasmuch as those whom the Lord God shall bring out of the land of Jerusalem shall keep his commandments, they shall prosper upon the face of this land; and they shall be kept from all other nations, that they may possess this land unto themselves. And if it so be that they shall keep his commandments they shall be blessed upon the face of this land, and there shall be none to molest them, nor to take away the land of their inheritance; and they shall dwell safely forever.

http://scriptures.lds.org/2_ne/1/5#5

Now the LDS Church wants us to believe that the Hebrew DNA was swamped out by the multitudes of Asians that were already on the American Continent.

The interesting thing is, they will manage to pull this story off with the True Believers.

[Old Mountain man]

{Yawn}

This is the big breakthrough you guys have been waiting for?

And you are trying to say that the President of the Church is always supposed to be speaking in his role as God’s Prophet?

Wow, you guys sure do get excited about very little. Been getting into the sacramental wine have you?

Please, y’all go ahead and have fun with this one. I wouldn’t want to spoil the only fun you will have all week!

8-)

[Grig]

“So, the then “living prophet” was wrong, mistaken?”

You are talking about a personal opinion of his, not a revelation.