Posted on 05/05/2010 8:06:26 PM PDT by Colofornian
PROVO, Utah -- The over-scheduled, over-involved and over-whelmed Mormon woman needs to do two things to de-stress, said two speakers at the recent Women's Conference at BYU: simply life and ask for God's help. "God placed us here to succeed," Sarah Westerberg said. "But mortality will cause stress. It's a natural byproduct."
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Her advice included...letting go of what cannot be controlled and ridding life of perfectionism.
She suggested adding two words to a working vocabulary: "Who cares?"
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(Excerpt) Read more at mormontimes.com ...
Mosaic law didn’t even criticize it
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HEY!!! Yes it did...
The ten commandments are Mosaic Law...
Thou shalt not commit adultery Exodus 20:14
Even Maimonides himself said that the Torah maintains that polygamous unions from a strictly legal point of view are permissible.
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Source ???
Not from a mormon site...
The Jews starting prohibiting polygamy around the year 1000
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Source ???
Not from a mormon site...
One question .... Has the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob condoned polygamy in the past?
_____Yes ____No
Please place an X on the correct answer.
Boy that looks cool...
Its Hot here today...
Way up there in the 80s
:)
One question .... Has the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob condoned
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The God of the Christian bible has never “condoned” polygamy
If you think He has then post the Biblical scripture...
It was in all the papers...
So the answer is yes, in the past, but not now.
(BTW that is what we call "answering a question" you guys ought to try it...)
. Polygamy was not considered adultery, but if the married head of the family had sex with a married woman that wasn’t one of his wives...
Leviticus 20:11 “If a man commits adultery with a married woman, committing adultery with an other man’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.”
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Gosh Honey, Joey Smith did that there sin at least ELEVEN times
For which occurance of “committing adultery with an other man’s wife” shoulod joey smith have been put to death ???
The first ??? The eleventh ???
Adultery then was when a married woman had sex outside marriage
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So the Ten Commandments were not written to men also ???
I wonder if God knows that men were editorialized out of the original stones...
Polygamy was not considered adultery
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I’ll let God know that...
Wont He be surprized ...
I have yet, in all these so-called "ANTI-MORMON" threads, found a Mormon defender who could point out any deception. Not LIKING having the light shine on the truth (or rather the lies) of this pseudo-religion doesn't make it propaganda.
Even if we were to concede your point (which I don't), to apply biblical polygamy to some of Joseph Smith's shenanigans is downright chicanery. Approximately eleven of Smith's "plural wives" were already married -- and remain married during Smith's "nuptials" with them.
By any definition you may want to pull out of your poly-polygamy hat, that's adultery.
It's when Mormons begin to come face-to-face that their founder was an serial adulterer, that the rest of the relational and spiritual defrauding Smith engaged in becomes clearer in focus.
Its on my my phone but I can get it there.
Well, if Smith had sex with MARRIED women outside of his own plural marriage, he would have been in deep doodoo in the years of early Judaism.
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Name a married woman “in the days of early Judasim” who was also in a “plural marriage” to another man ???
Obviously you have limits on the depth of your biblical scholarship because of your Christian background. If you get time, you should read a bit of Maimonides and other great Jewish scholars. They will give you some good information and context on the “Old Testament” ... maybe give you some insight on subjects such as this. Otherwise, you may just stick with using the “New Testament” only, which you seem more familiar with...magritte
Well, if Smith had sex with MARRIED women outside of his own plural marriage, he would have been in deep doodoo in the years of early Judaism.
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Joey Smith was in deep doodoo in the early 1800s for “having sex with MARRIED women INSIDE of his own plural marriage”
Many of the mormon men WENT TO PRISON for just that...
PLURAL MARRIAGE...AKA BIGAMY...the legal term at that time was “unlawful habitation” a feloneous crime..
Thats why Joey Smith kept hiding out and moving around the country...
Two years after Joey Smith died Briggy Young moved to Mexico (Utah territory) to get away from the US laws against bigamy...
If you get time, you should read a bit of Maimonides and other great Jewish scholars
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Post them right here and I’ll read them...
(Nana says for the SECOND time...)
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