For behold, I reveal unto you a new and everlasting covenant; and if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned; for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory - Doctrine & Covenants Section 132Joseph Smith may have commanded it, and Joseph may have practiced it with 33 plural wives in addition to Emma (See LDS Historian Todd Compton's In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith) but your assertion that God did not specifically disapprove of polygamy could not be more incorrect. Consider the following:
Note: Scripture defines adultery as a married man having sexual relations with anyone other than his wife or a married woman having sexual relations with anyone other than her husband (see Mark 10:11-12, Luke 16:18, 1 Corinthians 6:15-16, and 1 Corinthians 7:2 among others) There are many verses condemning this terrible practice, enough for a detailed study in its own right.
Note: The two as one is the pattern on how marriage was to be conducted from the start ... NOT more than two as one.
A man and a woman come together to make ONE flesh.
You can’t be ONE flesh with multiple women at a time. That breaks the one flesh bond.
The Articles of Faith outline 13 basic points of belief of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Prophet Joseph Smith first wrote them in a letter to John Wentworth, a newspaper editor,
in response to Mr. Wentworth's request to know what members of the Church believed.
They were subsequently published in Church periodicals.
They are now regarded as scripture and included in the Pearl of Great Price.
THE ARTICLES OF FAITH
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS History of the Church, Vol. 4, pp. 535â541
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