Abraham and Jacob (probably also Isaac) were polygamists .... Christ had the blood of David and Soloman in his veins, both polygamists...
It seems to me that your problem isn’t with LDS Mormons .... But with the foundation of pre-Christianity.
Since Christianity, LDS or not has been tainted with polygamy ..... why don’t you start a new religion ..... you could call it someting like ....
“The Chruch of Anti-Mormons who reject Christs Polygamist Ancestors”
Isaac wasn't. Nothing in the Bible. Totally made up by Joseph Smith, who wrote D&C 132 to convince his first wife, Emma, to go along with him sleeping around.
Jacob became a polygamist ONLY BY DECEPTION from his father-in-law, Laban.
(And here you want to institutionalize a system instigated in the Jacobian household by sheer deception?)
We have no proof Abraham "married" Hagar, 'cause his wife Sarai is the ONLY one who ever referenced Hagar as his "wife" -- and she did that prior to Hagar sleeping with Abraham...by Genesis 21, Sarah is labeling Habar "that slave woman" (not "wife" -- not even "concubine.")
In Genesis 16, AFTER Abraham slept with Hagar (once, for all we know), HE still is referencing Hagar as his wife's slave/servant. And so does the Angel of the Lord in that chapter!
The apostle Paul likewise DOESN'T reference Hagar as his "wife" in a lengthy passage in Gal 4:21-31.
And we know Abraham took Keturah as a "wife" in Gen. 25:1 post Sarah's death...tho it is possible that Keturah may have been a "concubine" while Sarah was still alive.
Is that really your argument Teppe?
Really?
So what? Christ had the blood of a prostitute--Rahab -- in his veins as well? (Or did you conveniently forget to absorb that factoid into your argument?)
Are you going to try to now tell us that prostitution is some kind of "righteous" cottage industry because of Rahab???
We know that Hosea married a prostitute at God's bidding -- Gomer -- who remained a prostitute post-ceremony. Are you going to tell us that because God wanted to provide a parallel situation to a faithless Israel that the "cottage industry" of prostitution has been established by these precedents???
One of the more ridiculous arguments we've heard from your keyboard, Teppe...perhaps you should better realize how Mormon polygamy has corrupted your family morals -- e'en this many generations later!
Wrong.
It has been explained to you dozens of times, is it an apparent obsession that you continually bring the same thing up over and over again.....there are those who patiently tell you the truth....the question is why you are apparently unwilling to except it.
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 Christ—I 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!
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.
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...