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What amazes me is that we have taken Abraham, who the Lord loved, and who loved the Lord, and dragged his good name through the mud. We've realized that he was an adulterer, and therefore a sinner of the most base kind. We've besmirched him and his works.

All this in the name of discrediting Joseph Smith. Why? Because it's impossible to attack Smith as an adulterer due to his practice of polygamy and ignore Abraham's actions.

Well, so what if we destroy the credibility of one of the Bible's most prominent holy men? Smith has just got to go!

We've realized that he was an adulterer, and therefore a sinner of the most base kind.

And yet, you hold up Abraham's life as a template for the act of adultery that Smith committed.

In other words, in the quote above you say Abraham was an adulterer.

LOGIC then follows that Smith was an adulterer, because you claim that both Abraham and Smith were given some magical command by God to commit adultery.

Never mind that you can't find God's quote.

And lastly, God would NEVER command anyone to SIN. That goes against His nature.

tanti,

To us who are Christian, we understand that Abraham was credited with perfect righteousness because of his faith.

For that, his sins (whatever they were) were forgotten. And so it is with us. We do not stand in judgement of Father Abraham from whom our Savior came. We revere him as a great Prophet of God.

It seems YOU are the one who is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. You cannot judge our frame of mind upon your own. We do not believe that Abraham was perfect, nor David, nor Isaiah, nor Obediah...nor any of the other OT Prophets.

God speaks to us individually through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Many are capable of dreaming dreams and prophesying. Your single Prophet of Mormonism speaking on behalf of the Lord is another fiction set up by Joseph Smith to place himself in a mighty and powerful position. God allowed many people the stupidity of falling for it. He will lead many people away from it and save them.