To whom it may concern
I fine many ability to reduce everything to naughty offensive and are so quick to judge things they do not understand no matter how many times one shows them it is hearsays and gossip they feast on and perfer to continue to ignore and have no desire to understand that Celestial Marriage is not of this world!
For some reason many seem to be fixated and perfer to live the lesser law due to the fact they have an unhealthy out look towards the Higher Law which Moses too could not give to the people!
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A TALE OF TWO MARRIAGE SYSTEMS:
PERSPECTIVES ON POLYANDRY AND JOSEPH SMITH
While the sole term of marriage is often used to
describe Joseph’s union with these women, the
relationships are more correctly defined as celestial
marriages, eternal marriages, or sealings.
In LDS belief, marriages must be sealed or bound together by
priesthood authority to be valid in the eternities. The
marriages the women had with their existing husbands
were of a completely different type of union than that
formed with Joseph Smith. The nature of the “marriages,”
or eternal bonds, with Joseph had little effect
during the mortal lives of these women.
Similarly, the civil marriages of these women to their earthly husbands will have had little effect in the immortal lives that were to come for them.
Respected historians have correctly noted that due to
the fact “celestial marriage transcends this world, it was
possible for a person to be married to one spouse for
this world and sealed to a different spouse for eternity.”7
In addition, celestial marriage could be “performed between
two living persons one or both of whom had living
spouses. Such a marriage, however, had no binding
effect during their lifetimes on the two people who entered
into it. It simply meant that they would be united
in the world to come.”8
Joseph’s marriages to these women functioned on two
co-existent marital spheres and may be incomprehensible
to those without understanding of LDS belief in
the nature of the eternal family unit. Indeed, as John A.
Widtsoe notes,Such marriages led to much misunderstanding
by those not of the Church and unfamiliar with
its doctrines and practices.
To them marriage meant only association on earth. Therefore
any ceremony uniting a married woman, for
example, to Joseph Smith for eternity
seemed adulterous to such people. Yet in any
day, in our day, there may be women who
prefer to spend eternity with another than
their husband on earth.9
http://www.fairlds.org/pubs/polyandry.pdf
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