bcspace wrote:
Not experienced with the english language or computer programming? What does the for...otherwise in Jacob 2:30 refer to? The subject of the previous verses which is plural marriage.
Here is how Jacob Chapter Two, Verse 30 is Correctly interpreted and read:
[30] For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people [To Marry Monogamously]; otherwise they shall [will] hearken unto these things [The Sins of Polygamy].
A lot of LDS Apologists have read the words, 'shall hearken' in Jacob 2:30 as imperative, and/or as a commandment, 'must hearken.' However, I have found three other places in the Book of Mormon were the words 'shall hearken' occur. These three places in the Book of Mormon where the words shall hearken occur at are in 1 Nephi 14:1, 2 Nephi 3:23, and 2 Nephi 28:31.
Here is 1 Nephi 14:1:
[1] And it shall come to pass, that if the Gentiles shall hearken unto the Lamb of God in that day that he shall manifest himself unto them in word, and also in power, in very deed, unto the taking away of their stumbling blocks --
Here is 2 Nephi 2:23:
[23] Wherefore, because of this covenant thou art blessed; for thy seed shall not be destroyed, for they shall hearken unto the words of the book.
Here is now is 2 Nephi 28:31:
[31] Cursed is he that putteth his trust in man, or maketh flesh his arm, or shall hearken unto the precepts of men, save their precepts shall be given by the power of the Holy Ghost.
(I Bolded the Phrase 'shall hearken' in all these three Scriptural Passages.)
In all those three other Passages in the Book of Mormon, the words 'shall hearken' is Not read as imperative, and/or as a commandment 'must hearken, but the words 'shall hearken' in those three places in the Book of Mormon is correctly read as 'will hearken.' The same thing also goes for Jacob 2:30. The words 'shall hearken' in Jacob 2:30 is Not read as imperative, and/or as a commandment 'must hearken, but the words 'shall hearken' in Jacob 2:30 is correctly read as descriptive, as 'will hearken.' A lot of the men of the People were willing to hearken unto the Sins of Polygamy. (Please See e.g. Jacob 1:15 & Jacob 2:34.).
Here is again how Jacob Chapter Two, Verse 30 is correctly interpreted and read:
[30] For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people [To Marry Monogamously]; otherwise they shall [will] hearken unto these things [The Sins of Polygamy].
bcspace wrote:
It's now obvious that raising up a righteous seed is to be done through plural marriage in this verse.
Nope! You are Not correct here. The following Post here is from Seven:
Seven wrote:I completely agree with you Brackite. If there was ever a time that God would need to raise up seed unto Him through polygamy, it would have been when Lehi was led to the promised land. Yet God commanded
monogamy. The sole purpose in God leading Lehi to this land was to raise a righteous seed!
Jacob 2:
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
"And I've said it before, you want to know what Joseph Smith looked like in Nauvoo, just look at Trump." - Fence Sitter