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Yep.  Just like the lies that Joseph Smith told, when he first started the practice.  Just like the lie that Nephi lived while getting the brass plates. Again - I am reporting what I have been told.  I don't know whether it is true or not.

Lie? You mean him living the law before getting it sustained? Not sure I understand what you mean with brass plates part - please elaborate. For your second statement... whomever told you this should be reputable if you chose to mention it here. What authority have they in this?

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Lie? You mean him living the law before getting it sustained?

No, like him saying, and having others say, that they weren't practicing it, when they were.  That is why the Community of Christ can still claim that he never did.

I was just reporting what someone related as anecdotal evidence, along with opinion.

NightHawk

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No, like him saying, and having others say, that they weren't practicing it, when they were.

Maybe this fell in the same bucket as... 'the cock crowing thrice' and 'Abraham's wife being referred to as his sister (there is another thread on that). I am not too worried about why they did not say anything as much as the questions still left unanswered some pages ago, such as... did he really seal himself to a woman already married and not tell the husband? Is it really possible to be married to a woman already sealed if you are in higher authority?

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I don't have answers to my own questions!  Those aren't even in the realm of things I have ever explored!

NightHawk

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:laugh: Yeah, tell me about it. Check through the starting threads on here and you will get into that part of the thread.

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I did.  But those are questions that don't interest me.

Since I have been seeking depth of knowledge, my interests have been more focused on why we believe certain things, what principles, doctrines, and ideas have meaning within the context of the last days, and what I need to do to really gain knowledge of these things.

Speculation and seeking out the realities of what anti-Mormons and anti-polygamists spout are not part of those interests.

NightHawk

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Speculation and seeking out the realities of what anti-Mormons and anti-polygamists spout are not part of those interests

Who are studying what they have to say? We are talking about testimon6y from active LDS, some of whom were invited to address these issues publicly.

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I don't blame President Woodruff.  I blame the saints who rejected the principle, and begged the Lord and His servants to halt the practice.  If the saints had had the faith to ask the Lord, I am sure He would have fought their battles for them. I believe that the US and state governments will soon fall.  This will, of course, open up the way for the Church to reinstate this practice.  But I don't think it will.  The saints still reject the very idea that plural marriage is a good thing. As I said before, I think that when people practice it, it will be through direct, personal revelation to those who are approaching Zion.  The rest of us who are languishing in Babylon will not even notice. NightHawk

In our Gospel Doctrine class last Sunday this topic was touched upon briefly, i.e. that all past things must once again come to pass before the coming of the Lord, including animal sacrifice and..... plural marriage.  Oy and veh!  The immediate grumblings and murmurings and shufflings from the group were so shocking to me.  (Of course, I don't currently have a husband, and maybe I don't remember what it's like to feel so possessive about another person.)

But what petty objections from the women!
"Well, she better be the one to do windows and laundry"
"I'm not sharing MY home with some stranger!"
"My husband better know better than to bring another woman into MY life."
"She better not be younger and thinner than me."

And the men...
"I can't afford the wife I have, how could I support another one?"
"Which one will be in charge of... um... entertainment?"

So I agree with you, Nighthawk.  Even if the U.S. government does fall (and I believe fed.empire.gov is bound to) the Saints are NOT prepared to live that law.

I just kept my mouth shut and smiled.

IMO
Roz