C: The Lds church has never disavowed eternal polygamy
MB: So? If the LDS Church is a false church as you claim,
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MB, you got all that out of C just commenting that “the Lds have never disdisavowed eternal polygamy”
and they havent...
D&C 132 about “celestial marriage” was never rescinded...
Its still part of essential doctrine...
Joey Smith said it was a “new and everlasting covenant”
Since mormonism is based on polygamy, to get rid of it would be to get rid of mortmonism...
The mormon males have to practice polygamy in order to become gods and go to their afterlife...
The mormons claim that their mormon jesus will reinstate polygamy when he returns...
The mormons claim that their mormon jesus was married, and a polygamist...
D&C 132
4 For behold, I reveal unto you a new and an everlasting covenant; and if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye dammed; for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory.
glory.
5 For all who will have a blessing at my hands shall abide the law which was appointed for that blessing, and the conditions thereof, as were instituted from before the foundation of the world.
6 And as pertaining to the new and everlasting covenant, it was instituted for the fullness of my glory; and he that receiveth a fullness thereof must and shall abide the law, or he shall be damned, saith the Lord God.
20 Then shall they be gods, because they have no end; therefore shall they be from everlasting to everlasting, because they continue; then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them. Then shall they be gods, because they have call power, and the angels are subject unto them.
21 Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye abide my law ye cannot attain to this glory.
Pssst, "celestial marriage" includes and for the LDS Church currently is ONLY marriage between one man, one woman. If the LDS Church believes in the eternities polgamy is practiced, how does that impact you? It doesn't. So yes, polygamy was rescinded in the 1890 Manifesto. Celestial marriage is not nor has it EVER been solely polygamy esp. since so few even when it was practiced were allowed to enter into such marriages, something like fewer than 15% of the men of the church.
Again, practice your faith. Leave the faith of others alone. You surely can build yourself and your beliefs without having to tear down the faith of others. In this era of unbridled wickedness in the world the struggle should not be the godly vs. godly. It should be the godly vs. the ungodly. Anything else is a waste of energy and I believe is exactly how Satan would like to distract us from fighting the real fight we should be having. It's the same divisive spirit that sets Sunnis against Shiites in places like Iraq.
When you have a 16 year old gang raped in Stockton, California as dozens just watched and did nothing to help, when you have a farm in Missouri dug up to uncover evidence of decades of child sexual abuse by the parents against their children, when you have a home in Cleveland filled to the rafters with dead bodies by a man who lured women in, assaulted them and murdered them, when you have a Muslim terrorist shooting up our heroes at Fort Hood and murdering and so many other realities of horrofic sin afoot in the world, I would hope it would awaken you to the fact you're fighting against the wrong people and wasting your energies against the wrong "enemy." This is why splitting hairs on what constitutes "celestial marriage" in Mormon doctrine or worrying about what Mormons think marriage is like in the next life is nothing but a grand distraction and frankly a ludicrious one in the face of the awful sin we're confronted with in the news and in our communities on a daily basis. For that reason, I'm going to put my energies into fighting that, not debating you. I will not read nor reply to further posts because I chose not to be distracted from the real fight we have at hand.