Posted on 03/27/2013 4:42:02 PM PDT by Colofornian
Teppe, you seem to forget -- or don't care -- that I myself have an Lds polygamist within my genealogy. Perhaps I wouldn't even be here had that not been the case, right?
So on the one hand, people could say: "Who are you to therefore critique polygamy?"
On the other hand, it shows that even at the expense of my very existence, I will speak the truth about moral issues. IoW, if I could "time travel" & witness to Joseph Smith prior to his "Mormonizing" of America ... and thereby help to pre-empt Mormonism in that process...& perhaps pre-empt even my eventual life in so doing...I would do it.
Why?
Apostle Paul, Romans 9: 9 I speak the truth in ChristI am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, 4 the people of Israel.
Teppe, the apostle Paul reminds us in Ephesians 6 that our enemies are NOT "flesh and blood." You and all Mormons are NOT our enemies.
You are of tremendous value! Just like Paul's fellow Jews were of precious value to the apostle Paul!
I see that at least YOU are still reacting to the memo!
Office of First President & Living Prophet®: December 11st, 2011
URGENT!
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NO need to when he is such a hateful BIGOT!
EVERYone knows that MORMONs are good people to have as neighbors and they have Jesus' name on their buildings; too!
--MormonDude(I can't explain EVERYthing about my faith; but gosh dang it; I sure BELIEVE it!)
Not to mention that Moabite woman, Ruth.
Good advice; teppe!
YOUR church could be, let's see...
The Group of MORMONs Who Don't BELIEVE the Words of the PROPHET Brigham Young About Our Future Damnation.
Is that all you got?
C. Barkley
and I will go still further and say, take this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord has given,
and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.
Brigham Young - JoD 3:266 (July 14, 1855)
He insists they have underestimated the importance attached to a divine order that would allow males to satisfy their polygamous natures,
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so thats what was wrong with Joey Smith and Mohammad..
“Obsession, possibly to the extent of mental illness.
Have you considered seeking professional help?”
If you’re a Christian, you should be ashamed of yourself. If you’re not a Christian, you should read the Bible. I happen to use Free Republic heavily as a resource for stuff like this in my dealings with the LDS outside of this website. People get to thinkin I’m an expert. Nah, I just google “[subject] Free Republic” and press enter.
Besides, considering how in every thread, there is always a Mormon apologist who isn’t even a Mormon, it’s obviously needed.
Mormonism is the poor man’s Scientology. I think the tithes for the LDS are less expensive than getting “cleared,” then again I don’t know that for sure.
FYI
1Ti 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of ONE wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1Ti 3:12 Let the deacons be the husbands of ONE wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
You've been taught well...
How DARE you bring up anOTHER 'prophet' in a thread about POLYGAMY!!!
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And - just like magic - ABRACADABRA!!! experts appear!
"What does it profit a man..."
The Book of MORMON:THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHICHAPTER 224 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.
The BIBLE:
1 Timothy 3:2-3
2. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3. not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.1 Timothy 3:12
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.Titus 1:6
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHICHAPTER 224 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Or even HERE:
1 Timothy 3:2-3
2. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3. not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.1 Timothy 3:12
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.Titus 1:6
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSSECTION 1325157, Emma Smith is counseled (commanded) to be faithful and true; 5866, Laws governing the plurality of wives are set forth.51 Verily, I say unto you: A commandment I give unto mine handmaid, Emma Smith, your wife, whom I have given unto you, that she stay herself and partake not of that which I commanded you to offer unto her; for I did it, saith the Lord, to aprove you all, as I did Abraham, and that I might require an offering at your hand, by covenant and sacrifice.52 And let mine handmaid, Emma Smith, areceive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, and who are virtuous and pure before me; and those who are not pure, and have said they were pure, shall be destroyed, saith the Lord God.53 For I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice; and I give unto my servant Joseph that he shall be made ruler over many things; for he hath been afaithful over a few things, and from henceforth I will strengthen him.55 But if she will not abide this commandment, then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her, even as he hath said; and I will bless him and multiply him and give unto him an ahundredfold in this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and lands, wives and children, and crowns of beternal lives in the eternal worlds.
THX 1138
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