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I think the Lord is telling the prophet something like: "Look, this is what I am telling you to do. Anyone who asks the Spirit for confirmation is going to be told exactly what I am telling you."

If the Lord told the prophet it should stop then the Spirit will say the same to anyone who inquires with a truly open mind and no preconcieved notions or ideas.

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But that's the thing, he did not tell the prophet it should stop. He just told the Prophet to ask the members a question but he never commanded the Saints to stop the practise.

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Well, you see, I disagree with you here. I believe it was a rhetorical question. So, to me, the question is more a justification for ending the practice than it is asking what we want to do.

I don't believe the Lord asks us how we think His gospel should be. He tells us and expects us to live it. I believe in the case he is simply explaining by way of a literary means, why that is so.

He is saying, "see now, it just doesn't make sense to continue this way right now. Think about it. What do you think makes the most sense. Be stubborn and stick to your guns, which will end up in your total destruction, or back off and allow my kingdom on earth to continue to flourish, grow and spread my message to others?"

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Let us keep in mind that even after this declaration and sustaining vote Plural marriage continued to take place by Church leaders, including the Prophet.

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I don't believe the prophet entered into new marriages after the proclamation did he? He continued to live with and support the ones he had and I know other members did continue to enter into these marriages and perhaps a blind eye was turned, but still.

Can you supply documentation from a reliable source that the prophet entered an additional marriage after this proclamation? If you want to just point me the post in this thread, I will look there, but this is an extremely long thread and so far, I personally haven't read anything that convinces me that this isn't what was being said and how it was being said.

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I am not going to wade through the past messages of this topic, but there is documented proof that this took place, it is actually, common knowledge by those who like to study Plural Marriage and is one of the reasons of 'justifying' their position to continue it. I suggest you look through this thread for the quotes or maybe someone will be so kind to do it, I am rather busy right now mainly replied to clear up that one point of it being an actual commandment to stop at the time of the manifesto.

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I have read them all at one time or another. I don't recall seeing anything I considered reliable. I am only suggesting that if someone wants to tell me why I am stupid in my belief feel free. Otherwise, I am operating on theory that this hasn't been proven as fact, but mere speculation.

One final thought I have is this...

We have been commanded by our modern day prophets not to do it. This is enough for me. I believe in following the last command given. So, if today I am told to do something and next week I am told to not do it, I won't use the command given today as an excuse not to follow the command next week. So, it doesn't matter to me what happened before, if the prophet today has told me something different. I believe things change. Not all commands or revelations end up in the Doctrince and Covenants, but I still believe they are valid.

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Fine, then there is no need to post in here. I do not believe the pursuit of this topic is to enslave anyone into accepting Plural Marriage. No, not being rude, but the purpose of this thread is discussion, no one here is preaching that we need to go out and look for other wives to add to our families, we are merely sharing views, opinions, etc. a lot of which comes from the History of the Church. I understand we are not asked to abide this law by the living, but we still do it with our dead. You will note that the general membership of the Church did not know anything about Plural Marriage for some eight years after it was already being practised. It was also only actually introduced and sustained to the general body after that time - to me that says something quite significant.