Hey fellow Mormons. I have a problem. It has been in my mind for some time now. I know that God can be both kind and terrible, but I also know that He has given us our free agency. I read in "Joseph Smith, Rough Stone Rolling" by Richard Lyman Bushman that quote: "By delaying plural marriage, Joseph risked provoking God's wrath. Mary Rollins Lightner, one of his plural wives, later said Joseph told her about the pressure he was under. "The angel came to me three times between the year of '34 and '42 and said I was to obey that principle (of plural marriage) or he would [s]lay me." Others told the story with an additional detail: the angel held a drawn sword." Many affidavits by people like Joseph B. Noble, Benjamin F. Johnson to George S. Gibbs, make it highly likely that this story about the angel and the sword is not made up. I have problems reconciling this account with the doctrine of free agency. Help, please?
2007-04-25
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