This is the first post in a series.
There’s a lot on talk over social media in the ExMo community about this new Church History manual for children next year. 2025 is the year for the D&C rotation in Come Follow Me, which we all know concludes with section 132 where “the Lord” commands plural marriage.
This lesson in the children’s manual begins like this:
What a nice way to frame the story.** A revelation begins with a question, right? Hmmm what does God think about polygamy?
Of course Joseph wanted to know, right?
Except for the fact that he already knew what God said about it.
The New Testament makes it quite clear in 1 Timothy 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:12, and Titus 1:6 that men ordained in the church should only have one wife.
And then there was that book that Joseph himself translated…. Where there’s an entire sermon denouncing polygamy.
And what do you know? It says exactly how the Lord felt about that Old Testament polygamy!
There’s his answer, right there.
“David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord” (Jacob 2:24)
Hmmm. Interesting cuz the Bible says the exact same thing! (1 Kings 11:6)
I think maybe God thinks it’s abominable.
Maybe.
“For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none” (v.27)
Sounds like we know what God’s law about marriage is.
But just to double check, Joseph could have looked at his own revelation that he had already received!!!!
D&C 101, published and canonized in 1835, Joseph revealed specifically in response to accusations of polygamy,
“Inasmuch as this church of Christ has been reproached with the crime of fornication and polygamy, we declare that we believe that men should have but one wife, and one woman but one husband, except in the case of death, when either is at liberty to marry again.”
(See verse 4 below)
So this whole story of Joseph reading the Old Testament and wondering how the Lord felt about polygamy?
It’s not adding up.
Like so many other things in the LDS church, this does not add up! It’s full of lies and contradictions.
**it should also be noted that Moses was NOT a polygamist. So that’s another detail that shows how ridiculous this story is.
Stay Tuned For More on Polygamy and an Analysis of D&C 132…..
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