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View Poll Results: How old when you learned of polyandry by JS? | |||
Before baptism? | 1 | 2.17% | |
Before puberty or 14? | 8 | 17.39% | |
Before 20? | 7 | 15.22% | |
After 20 or after mission? | 23 | 50.00% | |
After 30? | 7 | 15.22% | |
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04-30-2007, 05:18 PM | #21 | |
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JS committed a sexual sin relating to polygamy/polyandry that was not acceptable to God but JS believed it was right? What then? |
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04-30-2007, 05:19 PM | #22 | |
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I can accept the fact that people may not be held responsible for the actions of their leaders.
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04-30-2007, 05:28 PM | #23 | |
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[EDIT]Never mind, I forgot the Book of Mormon was allegory and that it's likely a Brother of Jared never existed, so the chewing out was merely the symbolic consequence of a symbolic transgression.[/EDIT] Last edited by Indy Coug; 04-30-2007 at 05:31 PM. |
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04-30-2007, 05:31 PM | #24 |
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I was a Salt Lake City missionary at age 19, and encountered the idea then (as did many in my mission).
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04-30-2007, 05:32 PM | #25 | |
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I remember the first time I discussed it with leadership, it was, this, 'hum, hah," Well he didn't have sex. Well maybe he did. Well ... no good answers.
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04-30-2007, 05:33 PM | #26 |
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Maybe God tapped him and the next couple guys on the shoulder and it took the fourth guy to pay attention. I just think there's so much we don't know about God and how and when and why he reveals things to us, that we can't say definitively how things really went down re: the whole polygamy fiasco.
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04-30-2007, 05:39 PM | #27 | |
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04-30-2007, 05:45 PM | #28 |
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Absolutely not.
1. Agency is a really important concept that we probably don't understand well and how it might play it out in situations like this. 2. Since God obviously knows the world beginning to the end, the polygamy fiasco, while resulting from a mistake or blunder by man might have been the exact thing to further God's will in how the restoration of His church would go. |
04-30-2007, 05:49 PM | #29 | |
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On P-day, though, I went to a bookstore (either Sam Wellers or Benchmark Books) and I asked somebody there to steer me to books on J.S. and polygamy/polyandry. I bought Carmen Hardy's book. Most missionaries don't have easy access to those resources...
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04-30-2007, 06:07 PM | #30 | |
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