Emma was his wife.
2007-11-20 09:27:32 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
lds mom, doesn't God appoint a prophet? I don't know. sounds like the way an HOA goes about making board members or something.
2007-11-20 11:03:37 · update #1
I would too...her complaining about cleaning led to the word of wisdom....
2007-11-20 10:53:32 · answer #1 · answered by Princess Ninja 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Maybe this is what you are trying to ask...Why did Emma fall away from the church after Joseph's death? She chose not to go to Utah with the saints because she had personal issues with Brigham Young. Emma felt that her and Joseph's son, Joseph Smith III should be the next prophet. But this church isn't a royal family. The next prophet comes from revelation from God, it isn't a blood thing. Brigham was made the next prophet mostly for 2 reasons. One, he was the most senor in seniority of the 12 apostles. Second, Joseph Smith knew the end was coming. He groomed Brigham knowing that he would one day be the next prophet.
Of course God appoints the prophets. We believe that even the 12 apostles are chosen by God. This is how it has always been done.
2007-11-20 18:54:56 · answer #2 · answered by LDS Mom 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Not certain of the source(s) of information you are referring to, but Emma supported Joseph all of her life. She went through unbelievable trial and tribulation, and still supported Joseph in his calling as prophet, seer, and revelator. She faced not only verbal abuse, but physical abuse at the hands of mobs and heathens, was forced from the warmth and security of her home and property repeatedly, had to observe her husband be tarred and feathered by citizens of a country that espouses "freedom of religion," saw her husband unjustly imprisoned repeatedly.....I can go on....and she still stayed by his side and supported him.
It was only after his murder that Emma chose to settle and not move on, like she had been doing all of her married life. Who can blame her for not wanting to move by wagon, in the middle of the winter of 1846? She stayed on in the city her husband founded, Nauvoo. Perhaps it was her way of keeping Joseph close to her heart.
2007-11-20 20:30:09 · answer #3 · answered by Kerry 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You answered your own question without even knowing it, Emma was his wife-good answer.
2007-11-20 17:30:40 · answer #4 · answered by absent farmer 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Dog?
No she put him in place to be a better father.
2007-11-20 22:06:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
uh, she was his wife.
2007-11-20 18:51:02 · answer #6 · answered by . 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
She was wife #1 and he was a lying polygamist
2007-11-20 17:33:51 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 8⤋
she was his wife
need i say more?
2007-11-20 18:32:20 · answer #8 · answered by slopoke6968 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
He wasn't a good husband.
2007-11-20 17:30:43 · answer #9 · answered by S K 7 · 0⤊ 7⤋