tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205773018799890263.post400197967828018863..comments2024-03-27T18:19:45.453-06:00Comments on A Little Peace in Paradise: What Would You Say If You Saw Us? Part 1Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205773018799890263.post-86314374389804954352012-05-15T13:37:49.909-06:002012-05-15T13:37:49.909-06:00I think I'll write a post on polygamy in a few...I think I'll write a post on polygamy in a few days.John and Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04899746045646203432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205773018799890263.post-70568925581205517282012-05-15T10:56:00.229-06:002012-05-15T10:56:00.229-06:00I'm sorry to add more confusion to your life. ...I'm sorry to add more confusion to your life. I realize the truth can send us for a loop sometimes, but it always brings us back to even more solid and wonderful ground.<br /><br />I refer to your reference of D&C 132 and Joseph Smith. There is no proof that Joseph Smith wrote D&C 132, let alone that he ever even heard of it. It was brought forth and read in Gen. Conf. by BY after they were all settled in the Salt Lake valley, and polygamy had been accepted by the members & leaders as a righteous principle, 8 years after Joseph Smith's death.<br /><br />BY claimed that Joseph wrote D&C 132, but it was not in his handwriting. And just like all other accusations that BY and other polygamists made about Joseph Smith, D&C 132 was completely contrary to everything that Joseph himself ever taught & testified about marriage or the Gospel of Jesus Christ. D&C 132 also went against all the Church's current scriptures on marriage.<br /><br />So, such an accusation by BY that day, mean't that either 'he' was lying 'OR' that 'Joseph Smith' lied to the Church his whole life and led them astray to not accept polygamy later on. If Joseph lied then he also has led all of us astray today, who believe in his testimony, teachings & scriptures, that polygamy is a vile evil to be forever shunned.<br /><br />If you had been sitting there in that Gen. Conf. that day, 8 years after Joseph died, when BY presented that document, what would you have thought about it, especially when the constant words and warnings of Joseph Smith rang in your mind, where he commanded you to reject & shun any man who preached or practiced polygamy in any form. And Joseph's command to consider such a man or prophet or apostle 'a false prophet' preaching false and dangerous doctrine. <br /><br />What would you have done? Who would you have believed? Joseph or Brigham? You can't follow both, for they teach completely opposite religions and doctrines. Those who liked the thought of polygamy, as most men do, would probably believe BY. But those who believed in treating women with respect & love and faithfulness, as Christ taught, would have believed Joseph Smith told the truth.<br /><br />Polygamy is the great divide, it separates the wheat from the tares like nothing else. It separated the righteous from the unrighteous after Joseph died & it began to be preached & it separates those today, who study it and must make a decision about it. <br /><br />For like Christ and Joseph & Emma Smith, righteous men & women would never believe in polygamy, they would be able to see if for what it is, one of the most vile & abusive forms of adultery ever known, just as they and all the holy scriptures and prophets said it was.<br /><br />So again, who lied? BY or all the other Prophets & Christ?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14820789518324711161noreply@blogger.com