In my opinion the reason plural marriage was established was because number one it produces more righteous offspring, and two in my opinion there are easily going to be more women that are righteous than men. In order for the women to become goddesses they must have a husband so Heavenly Father provided for that. Once again that's only my opinion.
Plural marriage was a commandment from G-d.. . Full stop. We can rationalize or invent some theories but the truth is that the lord commanded and the saints obeyed until well.. . We know the story they were asked to choose and they chose to stop the practice the lord didn't stop it.
I believe that there is a definite agenda to move us as a church from over here (Typical funny peculiar mormon believes) to over there (Fit in nicely with the rest of the christian churches). So all of these early doctrines that made us peculiar, are not to be discussed anymore. Some members were exed because they talked about heavenly mother. Adam-God as taught in conferences as well as in the endowment sessions have all been dropped like hot potatoes. So, James Talmage stated it is not a required principle of the gospel, Pres Hinckley stated it is not doctrine and not required anymore. Pres Holland states: I do not know nor understand why the saints were asked to live this. To me this is very problematic. Either the early brethren were teaching false doctrines, like Adam-God, plural marriage is an essential celestial requirement, 2nd anointings, etc etc or ....... Personally I would prefer to hear, well, the brethren were wrong. Or it was doctrine for their period of time. I just don't like this: Probably miss quoted by his secretary stuff. I have no problem with the brethren stating: We cannot live plural marriage anymore because we are not allowed, but to state it is not doctrinal, or I do not know why we even did this is problematic. Pres B.Young plainly taught in the temple that Adam came to THIS earth with a celestial body and brought ONE OF HIS WIVES, Eve with him. Seems like an eternal principle to me. People have been exed just by talking about it. That is even more scary. George Q.Cannon in a conference talk stated that there were people in this congregation that were direct disendants from the original 12 and even of the Lrd Jesus Christ. The profit then stood up and confirmed the truth and correctness of this. WOW. What they just said was that Jesus was married and had kids. Nothing new here really except that we don't want to talk about that either. Lastly Cornelius Celsus wrote a letter complaining about the many wives Jesus had. Oh my! And who said it was not an eternal principal. We have had a number of manifestos. But we only read the 1890. Most of the apostles refused to accept it initially as revelation. It was never signed by the prophets counselors. Several apostles were exed because they rejected it. Pres Joseph F.Smith took another plural wife aster the manifesto and in front of the Smoot hearings under oath admitted to actively live plural marriage. He was the prophet! It is sad that we cannot talk about our proud heritage without having to be afraid of sitting in front of our bishops.
Name: Philip
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Name: Plural
Comments: So the church is in apostasy just because they're not allowing everyone to practice plural marriage? I don't get that. Plural marriage isn't necessary for salvation, but having charity is!