What if Joseph Smith confessed to adultery

The catch-all forum for general topics and debates. Minimal moderation. Rated PG to PG-13.
_Drifting
_Emeritus
Posts: 7306
Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:52 am

Re: What if Joseph Smith confessed to adultery

Post by _Drifting »

bcspace wrote:
The agenda is plain throughout the Old Testament, just as the LDS agenda is plain to see.


I'm glad the LDS Church has the same agenda as the Bible. Both New Testament and Old Testament. But we certainly have established that a christian must accept the notion that God authorizes plural marriage from time to time.


No, we have established that a few men have told us that God has authorised it. Usually the men that have been, or want to, practice it.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”
Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric

"One, two, three...let's go shopping!"
Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
_Drifting
_Emeritus
Posts: 7306
Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:52 am

Re: What if Joseph Smith confessed to adultery

Post by _Drifting »

On the basis that an unrighteousness tree cannot bring forth good fruit.

What good came from Joseph's introduction of polygamy?
What bad came from Wilfred's ending of polygamy?
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”
Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric

"One, two, three...let's go shopping!"
Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
_harmony
_Emeritus
Posts: 18195
Joined: Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:35 am

Re: What if Joseph Smith confessed to adultery

Post by _harmony »

Drifting wrote:No, we have established that a few men have told us that God has authorised it. Usually the men that have been, or want to, practice it.


+1!
(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.
_ludwigm
_Emeritus
Posts: 10158
Joined: Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:07 am

Re: What if Joseph Smith confessed to adultery

Post by _ludwigm »

Drifting wrote:What bad came from Wilfred's ending of polygamy?

Wilfred ???

Is he Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe?

Or another hero?

Image
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
_harmony
_Emeritus
Posts: 18195
Joined: Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:35 am

Re: What if Joseph Smith confessed to adultery

Post by _harmony »

ludwigm wrote:
Drifting wrote:What bad came from Wilfred's ending of polygamy?

Wilfred ???

Is he Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe?


Wilford Woodruff.
(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.
_ludwigm
_Emeritus
Posts: 10158
Joined: Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:07 am

Re: What if Joseph Smith confessed to adultery

Post by _ludwigm »

harmony wrote:Wilford Woodruff.

I know.

But I can not skip a joke. Never.

I will laugh my head off, when my executioner falls of the stairs of the scaffold...
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
Post Reply