Thank you, Rebecca! I didn’t expect you to be the one God sent to answer my prayer
Did you just base your reading on the assumption that freemasons are pligs, or did you just change the subject mid-paragraph?
Doesn’t change the fact that Smith introduced the concept of putting marriage at the center of his religion in order to satisfy his own desires, not those of God.
I have never, ever promoted or defended Warren Jeffs. This is a fallacy of your own imagination and an insult I will not soon forget.
Yes, you did:
That’s his claim to authority. That’s the lie by which he holds women and children hostage to his lusts. And you might as well be his spokesman.
Good. I hope you’ll be more careful about insulting yourself.
Joseph Smith introduced polygamy to the latter-day-saint movement which Jeffs still practices. Yes, it is the lie they use to hold women hostage and you are Smith’s spokesman.
Your religion was insulted by Joseph Smith and Jeffs is a reminder of that insult. It is nice to know that polygamy was condemned by Christ and has always been condemned by his Catholic Church.
If you realize it’s a lie, and you realize that it’s a lie used for evil, to harm innocents, then why do you keep repeating the lie?
The Brighamite sect of the Latter-day-saint movement claim they no longer practice polygamy. I believe that claim is true. Joseph Smith was the founder of the latter-day-saint movement and introduced polygamy into it. Some sects of that movement still practice polygamy according to Smith’s revelation. Smith’s revelation called marriage an everlasting covenant which is both eternal and polygamous. LDS who still practice polygamy believe an everlasting covenant would not be everlasting if they changed it like the Brighamites did. We can only speculate why the Brighamites changed an everlasting covenant.
Mormonism and its practice of polygamy was introduced into the United States by Joseph Smith in 1830. I said Jeffs is following the original (pre-Woodruff Manifesto) teachings of Smith, which is quite true. Joseph’s youngest wife was 14, a mere child. I reject both “Prophet” Jeffs and “Prophet” Smith, occupation glass looker.
It is not my lie, it is Joseph Smith’s lie, and it is being repeated by Warren Jeffs. I just find it interesting that you want to call Jeffs’ actions a lie but not Joseph Smith’s.
No we can not. While the LDS church head-quartered in Salt Lake City does not currently allow members to marry polygamously they do not find it to be inherently wrong. The only “objection” the LDS church has against it is that they were told it is now “un-lawful”. The issue of polygamy for them is not one of right or wrong but of allowed or not allowed. The Catholic church teaches that polygamy is an offense against marriage the LDS sees it as a valid form of marriage when allowed. So no they are not even close to seeing eye to eye on what constitutes a sacramental marriage.
They have never declared it wrong or evil, how could they their founder was a polygamist with 33 wives. Nor have I ever seen or heard an LDS member “inform against” polygamy, on the contrary they defend it vigorously here on other boards and in person.
Thought I’d give it a try though.
Actually, the LDS still practice a form of polygamy (technically polygyny). If an LDS man’s eternal wife dies, he can marry another eternal wife and he now has two eternal wives. In the resurrection he will be eternally - and plurally - married to both of them.
That was the question I was eventually going to ask. Who would they be married to in the celestial kingdom?
Interesting. You’d have to believe, actually believe, that our marriages are binding beyond death, in order to say that we still practice a form of polygyny. Wouldn’t that make you an heretic in the Catholic Church?
Yes, and if you bring this up LDS will say “we don’t really know how this will work out but no one will have to participate in polygamy if they don’t want too”, waffle waffle, weasel weasel. And a woman can get a sealing cancellation so she can spend eternity with the new “Mr. Right”, LDS eternal life is such a mess!! But more on my point is the fact that you will never find an LDS who agrees that polygamy is an offense against marriage and that it “is not in accord with the moral law”. The two views will never meet, thankfully. Unless of course the LDS church were to actually “crawl over or under or around” their history and denounce polygamy for the offense against marriage and morality that it inherently is.