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To: alancarp

You do not understand our religion that was an ordinance from the Lord, and when the mission was completed the souls who were to enter earth in this fashion, this ordinance of the Lord was no longer needed and will never be re-instated we are in the last dispensation there will be no more dispensation.


8 posted on 02/24/2014 9:45:29 AM PST by restornu
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To: restornu
I also don't buy that... the polgamy policy was changed under duress from the US Government, not from any divine revelation. In fact, I just read through Woodruff's 1890 Manifesto, and it pretty much claims that polygamy was never a teaching of the LDS church - which of course was a bald-faced lie:

Quoting: "I, therefore, as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, do hereby, in the most solemn manner, declare that these charges are false. We are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice, and I deny that either forty or any other number of plural marriages have during that period been solemnized in our Temples or in any other place in the Territory."

Obviously other Mormon groups though that was also wrong, and continued the practice.

In any case, my point was about the changes in practice over time and the church now signing on to this court fight, which seems ironic at the very least. I wasn't casting dispersions on the faith... at least not then... but merely pointing out that history didn't exactly agree with this position, regardless of formal statements to the contrary.

9 posted on 02/24/2014 9:51:48 AM PST by alancarp
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To: restornu
You do not understand our religion that was an ordinance from the Lord

How about someone who was LDS? I was born and raised in the LDS faith until I found Christ.

Christ Himself said it in Matthew 19:5 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh".

Wife, not wives. Wife. Two, not many. Two.

11 posted on 02/24/2014 10:14:46 AM PST by rjsimmon (1-20-2013 The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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