"Obviously the holy practice (of polygamy) will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium." (LDS apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 1966 edition, see pp. 577-579 for context)
If anyone wants to know why I post what I post, this is a decent summary from the point of view of an Indian Evangelical.
Besides, over the years a dozen or so Lds missionaries --out the literal million-plus they've sent out -- have visited me. I'm hospitable. I invite them in. We dialogue. They move on. Hopefully, they haven't felt "threatened." With a few, we've met repeatedly. Been on good terms.
Hey, I'm hospitable to them. I simply hope they return the "e-living room" treatment when I visit those who fund the resources Lds missionaries take with them.
I find that my “No Trespassing” signs work pretty well for keeping the Mormans and Jehova’s Witness folks away from my door.
I don’t know what the point is of posting this on a political web site. If the purpose is to create division, I think most of us have learned to brush that off, praise God.
The article has an intemperate tone.
Jesus was the Archangel Michael before he was born in the flesh.
Satan is Jesus' brother.
There is no Trinity (because their founder couldn't understand it.)
The "Holy Spirit" doesn't exist as a moving force or part of God.
Jesus has not always existed...he was a created being, not "with God at the Beginning."
Since the Bible says you should "only worship God", those multiple parts of the Bible where people worshiped Jesus (Disciples in the boat, Wise men from the East, etc.) are re-translated as "payed obeisance to Jesus".
And since EVERYBODY knows the Wise Men were really Astrologers, their worship doesn't count, of course.
There's more of course, but those are the highlights. We had to ask them about this, as the prepackaged spiel about "here comes the Kingdom of God don't you want to be part of it) left this stuff out. It is worth noting that although the Bible says if a prophet is wrong about any tiny thing, his word is not of God, the JW's have proclaimed Christ's immanent return a half dozen times in their history and been wrong. (Current church dogma is that Christ "returned secretly" to Earth in 1914. You remember that, right? When His toe touched the mountain and shattered it so the whole world heard? Remember?)
I'm a Baptist, and am more than satisfied with one wife (actually the second as my first has preceeded me to heaven).
That said, I recall an awful lot of people in the Old Testament having multiple wives. I believe that it was encouraged by God - "Be fruitful and multiply". I also recall the passage directing a man whose brother dies to take his wife onto himself. All the children of this union would be considered his brother's.
If the rules were changed, I'd like to know chapter and verse - and not some convoluted reasoning that doesn't reference the Bible.
“Mormonism and polygamy go hand in hand “
Oh, for God’s sake! What nonsense! This is 2009 last time I checked. It has been a hundred years since plural marriage was practiced by Mormons. Not to mention the lie about the LDS Church being a cult.
Stinks to High Heaven.
P.S. Jesus died for me, too. I’m a Mormon.
And in Joseph Smith's case, it really was a "novel!"
Bad fairy tales in Ether 14.
Incomprehensible adventure tales in Ether 2 -- Superb suffociation-designed barges filled with darkness and totally steer-free -- all according to a bumbling Mormon god's specificiations -- before Jared told him, "Ya kind of screwed up on this, oh Mormon divine one." (Of course, Jared wasn't exactly "brilliant," either ..he had these 8 bargest built over months on end before it finally dawned on him).
Even the design changes didn't address the logistics of a 344-day trip.
And a Mormon Jesus Christ who took 70,000 to 90,000 people with him when he died (3 Nephi 8). The gospels know of no such 16-city destruction upon his death.
Native Americans supposedly being able to have their skin change color, Michael Jackson like...so that it becomes "white and delightsome" -- as if white was any more "delightsome" than any color skin color in God's eyes!