Pearl of Great Price, marked and explained by Joseph Smith as figure 7:
Represents God sitting upon his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand Key-words of the Priesthood; as, also, the sign of the Holy Ghost unto Abraham, in the form of a dove.
Why does God have an erection?
Oh, because that's Min, the Egyptian fertility god.
Suddenly Mormon Polygamy makes more sense. The God of Mormonism is a fertility god with a permanently erect penis. This explains so much of Joseph Smith's later history.
It looks like Min a.k.a. the God of Abraham is actually black, though. He must have been miffed at that whole keeping blacks out of temples and the priesthood thing.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
Forgetting about Mormonism for a second, we should consider the importance of the portrayal of Min. Fertility was important. Child mortality was higher than it is now. I would guess that many families lived in smaller homes and often all slept in the same room. Parents likely had sex in the same room as their children, no? Sexuality was likely not as mysterious as it is today.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
zeezrom wrote:Forgetting about Mormonism for a second, we should consider the importance of the portrayal of Min. Fertility was important. Child mortality was higher than it is now. I would guess that many families lived in smaller homes and often all slept in the same room. Parents likely had sex in the same room as their children, no? Sexuality was likely not as mysterious as it is today.
They hadn't invented Puritans yet. :p
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
"Represents God, known unto the ancients as Priapist, sitting upon his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand Key-words of the Priesthood; as, also, the sign of the Holy Ghost unto Abraham, in the form of a dove."
"I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. ... Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I." - Joseph Smith, 1844
Baker wrote:"Represents God, known unto the ancients as Priapist, sitting upon his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand Key-words of the Priesthood; as, also, the sign of the Holy Ghost unto Abraham, in the form of a dove."
In those days the holy sacrament came in the form of a little blue pill.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
Baker wrote:"Represents God, known unto the ancients as Priapist, sitting upon his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand Key-words of the Priesthood; as, also, the sign of the Holy Ghost unto Abraham, in the form of a dove."
And, apparently, kindly supplying an ample perch for that dove.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
I thought this Mormon god was using a keyboard.....looks, you know, rectangle-shaped.
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
