The Polygamy Dilemma - Is Plural Marriage a Dead Issue in Mormonism?

Mormonism Research Ministry ^ | Bill McKeever

[Elsie]

No thanks Elsie, if i want to find out something i would rather do it myself...

GOOD!

This is the most I could hope for - an honest person seeking an honest answer.

[Elsie]

Mormons actually use the verses you quoted from Jacob to support polygamy.

I know.

But the FR Mormons haven't in a REALLY long time, since when they are shown in CONTEXT...

[Elsie]

“Don’t do it unless God says it’s ok.”

There goes driving cars, flying on planes, tweeting and twittering all over the place...

...eating flesh of animals in warm weather..

Oh...

Wait...

[ravenwolf]

GOOD!

This is the most I could hope for - an honest person seeking an honest answer.

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I hope this means we agree on something.

[Elsie]

We agree on LOTS of stuff!

(Although we use different language in describing it.)

[Elsie]

 

 

 

[ravenwolf]

(Although we use different language in describing it.)

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Yeah, that is right.
The saying is that two people can describe the exact thing to two other people and by the time they get through passing it on a few times there is no resemblance.

[Elsie]

 

 

The Blind Men and the Elephant

by John Godfrey Saxe

American poet John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) based the following poem on a fable which was told in India many years ago...

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It was six men of Indostan

To learning much inclined,

Who went to see the Elephant 
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind

 

 
The First approached the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
“God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!”

 

 
The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried, “Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me ’tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!”

 

 
The Third approached the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
“I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant
Is very like a snake!”

 

 
The Fourth reached out an eager hand,
And felt about the knee.
“What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mighty plain,” quoth he;
“ ‘Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!”

 

 
The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said: “E’en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!

 

 
The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Than, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
“I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant
Is very like a rope!”

 

 
And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!

 

 

 

Moral: 

 
So oft in theologic wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!

[ravenwolf]

Thats good and also also true.

[ravenwolf]

Thats good and also also true.