Question for my Mormon friends?

Question

Joseph Smith and Bringham Young each had multiple wives, and they believed God called them to celebrate "plural marriages."

Yet today men are not allowed to marry more than one church. In fact, the small number of Mormons today who are polygamous are scorned by the church.

Was Joseph Smith wrong when he said that God called us to marrying more than one? Was it right then, but wrong now? Or was Smith wrong from the beginning?

(I mean no disrespect. In fact, I've never met a Mormon who was not gentle, kind, and commited to doing God's will.

Answer 1

No. See, according to what I've heard, Joseph smith was unnerved by the fact that Abraham and Solomon had more than one wife. He wanted to know if this was God's will, so he prayed about it, and recieved revelation that in certain circumstances, plural marriage was ordained by God. Well, with the migration coming up, plural marriage was made doctrine, because the journey was certain to be perilous, and there might not be enough single men to take care of the women once they got to where they were going.

I'm sure it was abused. But I want someone to name ONE institution with absolute ZERO corruption, and prove it.

Now, when Utah was up for statehood, there was serious conflict. The united states government was threatining to invade our temples and take them over. So, wilford woodruff recieved revelation that resulted in the Manifesto. That manifesto was vague, as it did not openly prohibit polygamy. So a second manifesto was issued stating that members caught practicing polygamy would be subject to church discipline.

See, it was a matter of what was right for our people at the time. Polygamy was neccesary to 1. take care of our women and children and 2. to build our numbers. We believe it was ordained of god for a certain time, and then when it was no longer neccessary, then it was no longer okay.

Thank you for your sensitive, genuine question. I hope my answer helped.

Answer 2

Yes Joseph Smith and Brigham Young had plural wives.

Brigham Young married some women over 40-50 after their former husbands left them or died off. He kept good care of them even when the women couldn't have anymore children.

There was a question yesterday that said the same thing.

No Joseph Smith wasn't wrong when he was commanded to have plural wives. The practice was okay until God said the test is over. Manifesto #1. The law of the land stated we couldn't practice polygamy anymore, so we asked the Lord for answer, well Wilford Woodruff did.

It isn't needed now a days. Some have said it will be back in the Millennium until then it isn't practiced and if anybody practices it will be excommunicated.

Quietgrandpaforchatting Can you tell me what families and houses J.S. broke? No you just throw barbs at him.
Oh yes the Ex Mormons from Lighthouse are your friends.

Answer 3

Of course, you will recive all manner of answers to the question, based upon the "point of view" the person holds. There was not as many plural marriages, as it might seem. History has been distorted by modern...exposition and anti-mormon sentiment. On the other hand a careful study of historical records will produce more then sufficent evidence of the pratctice and the consequences.

Was Joseph Smith wrong? Of course that will depend upon whom you ask. I dare say a majority of Christians will agree it was wrong. The argument will come up, the Bible recounts many multiple marriages, and indeed that is true. The world suffers from one of those multuple marriages situations even today. Read about Abraham and Sarah and her hand maiden. Abraham was suppose to have a son in his old age, fear of too great an age prompted Sarah to give the handmaiden to Abraham to produce a child. That is a fact which came true as recorded in the Bible. However after that fact Sarah had a son. Because of the, "first born" born issue the world is still at war. Israel and the Araban world is still arguing about the matter. If there had not been the plural marriage that argument and all of it's repercussions would not be today's new media fodder.

Marring more then one wife, was not what G-D had planned for the human race. Marriage was for one man and woman, as set forth in the book of Genesis. They shall cleave to each other and no other. What G-D has put together let no man seperate. The instructions are clear in the Bible, to marry only one other person. The state of Divorce even is wrong in so many avenues. A careful reading of Mathew will make that clear.

Sadly Smith was wrong from the begining, only one real conculsion can be derived from his desire to keep young women, in his home with Emma. The same conclusion must be drawn from his desire to force other men's wives to marry him in the "Temple". In both cases, the kindest thing which can be said for Smith, was his karnal desires over took his, social culture of a "modern man" and took him back to the primeval desires of an early version of man kind before house breaking.

It has been my observation there are a good many Godly Morman men with wives and children which abhor such things as multiple wives. Thus it can not be accused of a large segment of LDS men to be so crude.

Answer 4

This is what the Bible says. Smith and Young knew this and ignored it.
(1 Timothy 3:2-7) The overseer should therefore be irreprehensible, a husband of one wife, moderate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach, 3 not a drunken brawler, not a smiter, but reasonable, not belligerent, not a lover of money, 4 a man presiding over his own household in a fine manner, having children in subjection with all seriousness; 5 (if indeed any man does not know how to preside over his own household, how will he take care of God’s congregation?) 6 not a newly converted man, for fear that he might get puffed up [with pride] and fall into the judgment passed upon the Devil. 7 Moreover, he should also have a fine testimony from people on the outside, in order that he might not fall into reproach and a snare of the Devil.

note; a husband of ONE wife.,..

Answer 5

The early leaders of the church taught that polygamy was sacred doctrine handed down from God. Joseph Smith had about 36 wives and Brigham Young had more than 50. The practice was abolished in the church in 1890 by Wilford Woodruff.
Today the church's stance is that polygamy was justified in the early days for reproductive purposes in establishing the religion but was stopped in response to pressure from the government

Answer 6

The law says they can't, so they can't. The Book of Mormon and Bible clearly lay out God's law on Marriage, both plural and otherwise.

The mormon leaders did have multiple wives for God's purposes...Brigham Young, David, Abraham, etc.

Answer 7

Polygamy was allowed for a little while, God in his infinite wisdom took the doctrine and made it inactive. There is no LDS person who practices this belief any more, tho we still believe it to be doctrine.

God seen that if the doctrine wasn't put in the inactive practices His church would be indanger this revelation was given to President Wilford Woodruff. If the church didn't stop the praciticing of Polygamy, the church leaders would be put in prison, the churchs property seized by the federal government. If you watch the news this is currently what is happening to the FLDS church.

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Answer 9

To everything there is a season.

Many leaders in the Church and personal friends of mine are the product of plural marriage. It served it's purpose in its time. I think that if polygamy was still practiced, Mormons couldn't function in today's society. I think God is a practical God. For periods he demanded sacrifices, for a time he said no. In times of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David and Solomon he had polygamy, and in some of those cases it was abused. And even in the times of Mormon polygamy there were abuses of it. I think in these days it would be too grossly abused.

Answer 10

I tend to see polygamy in a similar view as sex. Both are allowed under certain circumstances, but condemned under others. With sex, a person has to be married. With polygamy it has to be commanded of God. During the early days of the LDS church, it was commanded of some, and not of others. Today it is not commanded of us, so we don't practice it.