Jacob 2:23-24
"But the word of God burdens me because of your grosser crimes. For behold, thus saith the Lord: This people begin to wax in iniquity; they understand not the scriptures, for they seek to excuse themselves in committing whoredoms, because of the things which were written concerning David, and Solomon his son.
"Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord."
Seems God wasn't too happy about that were they. And then there is this:
"Inasmuch as this church of Christ has been reproached with the crime of fornication, and polygamy: we declare that we believe, that one man should have one wife, and one woman, but one husband, except in the case of death, when either is at liberty to marry again." (Doctrine and Covenants - 1835 edition, section 101, verse 4)
Looks like the revelation was against it then too. But being the prophet he was, Smith knew that he was going to prophecy D& C 132 in 1876, so he started right out and not only committed adultery with other men's wives but married others - all the while forbidden by the bom and 1835 D&C. Well, I guess if you are at the top of your food chain, you can do what ever you want in the name of gods.
To be fair to sevenbak, at the time he and DU hadbeen touting the example of David being given Saul’s ‘household’ as an example of God fostering polygamy thus it was not ‘adultery’ to take Sual’s wives from him an d give them to David because God can supercede His admonitions. I pointed out to them that Saul was dead when the ‘household’ was given to David (I failed at the time to show that it was more an issue of ‘for his protection’ rather than their destruction being allowed to happen), thus the thing was not adultery nr fostering polygamy. Sevenbak went back over the references and accepted that Saul was in fact dead when God gave Saul’s household over to David’s care.
The Gods Must Be Crazy 1980
Another film that starts slow then grabs you!
Good post, Godzilla.