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It's always in the back of the minds of believing members that someday, in the resurrection or thereabouts, they'll be compelled to live a polygamous lifestyle. But where exactly does that come from? A conference talk? Extrapolating from abandoned justifications for 19th century polygamy?

It's always in the back of the minds of believing members that someday, in the resurrection or thereabouts, they'll be compelled to live a polygamous lifestyle

Oh really?

Buffalo wrote:It's always in the back of the minds of believing members that someday, in the resurrection or thereabouts, they'll be compelled to live a polygamous lifestyle. But where exactly does that come from? A conference talk? Extrapolating from abandoned justifications for 19th century polygamy?

I wouldn't use the word "compelled," but it is clear in LDS teachings that plural marriage will be practiced in the celestial kingdom. Men can be sealed to more than one woman, though obviously not in this life.

This isn't something that is talked about in manuals or conference talks. But last I checked section 132 is still scripture, so it is still doctrine. And the practice I mentioned above means that church policy adheres to its doctrine that there will be plural marriage in the celestial kingdom.

bcspace wrote:

It's always in the back of the minds of believing members that someday, in the resurrection or thereabouts, they'll be compelled to live a polygamous lifestyle

Oh really?

Yes, really. Aren't you Mormon?

Runtu wrote:. Men can be sealed to more than one woman, though obviously not in this life.

This isn't something that is talked about in manuals or conference talks. But last I checked section 132 is still scripture, so it is still doctrine. And the practice I mentioned above means that church policy adheres to its doctrine that there will be plural marriage in the celestial kingdom.

I thought a widower could be sealed to his second wife in this life which in a way means we still practice polygamy. I don't think that is allowed for widow though.

Fence Sitter wrote:I thought a widower could be sealed to his second wife in this life which in a way means we still practice polygamy. I don't think that is allowed for widow though.

I meant that the wife has to have died before the surviving husband can be sealed to another. Sorry for not being clear.

Oh really?

Yes, really. Aren't you Mormon?

I am. Active too. So I was just suprised that I don't have such thoughts.

bcspace wrote:I am. Active too. So I was just suprised that I don't have such thoughts.

Do you live by yourself on a mountain top? Do you have your weekly sacrament delivered to you by helicopter?

Not polygamy, exactly, but my wife says she won't have to be with her ex in the afterlife... even though they are sealed.

When I ask why, she just says, "I don't know. I just believe that."

I suspect that most members feel the same way.

"I don't believe we'll have to live polygamy."
"Why?"
"Just because."

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." 1835 Doctrine and Covenants, C1, p. 251 (1835)