liz3564 wrote:Another thought here...if Joseph's initiation of plural marriage was with strictly posthumous sealings, then why was Brigham Young compelled to establish plural marriage as he did?
I am sure that the Saints would have been much more accepting of plural marriages being established in the posthumous sense.
This is the obvious follow up question. If Joseph didn't have sex with his plural wives, and the doctrine of polygamy was revealed to him, then everyone should be up in arms over the way Brigham Young and everyone else practiced polygamy, completely contrary to the way Joseph did.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
liz3564 wrote:Another thought here...if Joseph's initiation of plural marriage was with strictly posthumous sealings, then why was Brigham Young compelled to establish plural marriage as he did?
I am sure that the Saints would have been much more accepting of plural marriages being established in the posthumous sense.
This is the obvious follow up question. If Joseph didn't have sex with his plural wives, and the doctrine of polygamy was revealed to him, then everyone should be up in arms over the way Brigham Young and everyone else practiced polygamy, completely contrary to the way Joseph did.
Actually, this is the exact stance that the Reorganized LDS Church took.
DarkHelmet wrote:This is the obvious follow up question. If Joseph didn't have sex with his plural wives, and the doctrine of polygamy was revealed to him, then everyone should be up in arms over the way Brigham Young and everyone else practiced polygamy, completely contrary to the way Joseph did.
You'll notice that Brigham didn't announce it until they'd been in the Valley for 5 years... and they were thousands of miles from anywhere.
The threat was implied, but it was there: do it, or die trying to get to somewhere else.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.