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The content of the Book of Mormon could not have been put together by "wicked old Mormons", which refers to polygamists, because polygamists would never have put together a book that has the strongest polygamy in religious literature.

Hi John, how's the water, seeing that you are in denial. Sadly for your case, the evidence is more than adequate to show smith and others were practicing polygamy from early on - long before Young and Utah.

Joseph Smith Jr, in his revision of the Bible, made I Kings 11:4 read:

Joseph Smith's - revision - much better word than translation - is still bogus - as there is no extant ms that supports his 'revision'. Just like all else - he was a false prophet.

Sadly for your case, the evidence is more than adequate to show smith and others were practicing polygamy from early on - long before Young and Utah.

Your "evidence" is tainted. The two main sources for charges of early polygamy teaching are: (1) polygamists seeking to justify their sins; (2) enemies of the church who were anxious to find anything negative about the church so that they could gleefully trumpet it.

Among the evidence against early polygamy teaching are:

(1) the continued publication of the Book of Mormon with its condemnation of polygamy.

(2) The "law of the church" in the Doctrine and Covenants revelation of February 9, 1831, which states: "Thou shalt love thy wife with all thy heart, and shall cleave unto her and none else; and he that looketh upon a woman to lust after her, shall deny the faith, and shall not have the Spirit; and if he repents not, he shall be cast out."

(3) Joseph Smith's revision of the Bible in 1833, which made revisions supporting the condemnation of polygamy in the Book of Mormon.

(4) the 1835 statement by church leaders on marriage that was from then on, until Brigham Young had it removed, published in Doctrine and Covenments: "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 case of death, when either is at liberty to marry again."

(5) removals from church membership, during the presidency of Joseph Smith Jr, of persons engaging in adulterous relationships.

(6) the interview of the former Emma Smith by her son Joseph Smith III, before which she understood that the truth no matter how ugly was to be told, and she stated that she knew of no other wife, spiritual or otherwise, of her former husband (after his death, Emma remarried).