Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:19 pm
This is what happens when you raise up too much seed:
Just say no to polygamy
any questions?
Just say no to polygamy
any questions?
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moksha wrote:This is what happens when you raise up too much seed:
truth dancer wrote:First, the birth rate actually went down during polygamy.
So, God couldn't have the mothers of these great families just have twins?
Why not help out the less righteous to be more righteous? "He" certainly has done that before... (think Paul, for one examle).
How about giving the children born into the less fabulous familes an extra blessing or two so they become more righteous?
The infant mortality rate was quite high... why not lower it? This would be nothing for the God of the universe.
The second way in which and his priesthood, I have not revealed, except to a few persons in this Church, and a few have received it from Joseph the prophet as well as myself. This other path a woman may take if she can get a chance. <do it in strict accordance with the order of heaven,> If she <a woman> can find a man holding the keys of the preisthood [sic] and <holding with> higher in power and authority than her husband <holds>, and he is disposed to take her he can do so, otherwise she has got to remain where she is. This is the second way in which a woman can leave her husband to whome she has been sealed to for time and all eternity. In either of these ways of seperation [sic], you can discover, there is no need for a bill of divorcement.
To recapitulate. First If a man forfiets [sic] his covenants with a wife, or wives, becoming unfaithful to his God, <and> his preisthood [sic], that wife or wives are free from him without <bill of> a divorcement. Second. If a woman claimes [sic] protection at the hands of a man, possessing more power in the priesthood and higher keys, if he is disposed to <and has obtained the consent of her husband> rescue her <and has obtained the consent of her husband to make he> from and to make her his wife he can do so without a bill of divorcement by <first asking the> the free consent of her husband. Then a peice of blank paper will answer just as good a purpose for a bill of divorcement as the bills the sisters get from me. If after she had left her husband, and is sealed to another, she shall again cohabit with him it is illicit intercourse, and extremely sinfull.
KimberlyAnn wrote:If there ever were a time when God needed to "raise seed" wouldn't it have been at the beginning? There was a huge, empty earth to fill with people, yet God made one man and one woman and declared it "good".
Moses 1:34 wrote:And the first man of all men have I called Adam, which is many.
Dr. Shades wrote:I'm going to have to remember these.
truth dancer wrote:The young men were left without partners.
Seven wrote:How can polygamy be an abomination through the Book of Mormon and then suddenly become restored as a necessary ordinance, highest principle, required for exaltation?