Truthspeaker
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This is one of those touchy subjects which I will deal with only because there is a clear doctrine on this. About wives and the plurality thereof, I will first insist you all realize that no one is compelled to marry another. We have never believed in forcing marriages on anyone. It is between consenting adults.
Second I will refer to the common practice of polygamy in the Bible. It was common knowledge among historians, that the practice was around among the children of Israel even after the chronological period of the Bible. Notable prophets who engaged in the practice were Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Nathan, David, Solomon and others. It was not questioned too much back in the day. However there was a reason that certain individuals were allowed to practice in those times. This reason was revealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith in Doctrine & Covenants which states that not everyone is ordained unto this level but select individuals whom the Lord has commanded to raise up seed unto the Lord. The primary purpose is for the continuation of the family. It was shown to him the fact that there are simply more female spirits in the universe than there are male. this is evident when you see that women outnumber men in this world nearly two to one and in some communities as much as 7 to 1. The practice has most of the time by the Lord been forbidden among his children as it is now. There was a time in the early history of our church where there were many men murdered and killed in the 1800s as a result of mob violence against us. This left many women and children without fathers and without protectors. The society of the day was far different from the independant female society that exists among us now. Women absolutely needed protection and providence from a man, either a father or brother or husband. they didn't have office jobs where they could make their own money, and they were not trained to go into the forest and hunt for food. Women were all homemakers and were in great peril without a man providing and protecting them. It was a very dangerous lifestyle back then without the comforts and conveniences we have today.
At the time of greatest oppression, the Lord commanded several prominent members of the church to take in these women as wives in order to help stabilize their community. The actual numbers of men who engaged in polygamy was between 2 and 5% of the population. Not widespread like the media will have you think.
Now I will refer to the Book of Mormon in Jacob Chapter 2. Where the prophet Jacob is chastising the Nephites for justifying themselves in practicing polygamy when it was not instructed of the Lord to do it. They said among themselves that because Abraham and David and Solomon had many wives, then it was ok for them to do it as well. Their practices were considered an abomination before Him. And the tender hearts of their children and wives had been broken as a result of their breaking the commandments of God and MISINTERPRETATION of God's writings.
Those people are the same as the weird sectists who broke away from our church and misinterpreted the doctrine of plural wives.
So in a nutshell only those who are instructed of the Lord to have plural wives will have them sealed to them. The Lord knows all the personalities of his children and he knows which ones should be born in which time and which ones he knows he would not ask to participate. That is why we are all born in the times we are born in.
The Lord is with the times as well as anyone. Which is why he knew that it was time to end polygamy in his church around the same time it became illegal in the U.S. Some people find that to be a convenient coincidence, but it doesn't matter.
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when you said who wants to re-enter a corpse?
That would be really gross.
