Mormons practiced polygamy
After Manifesto
Religion » Article is posted days after federal judge struck down Utah’s
anti-cohabitation statutes.
Salt Lake Tribune -
Dec 16 2013 –
Just days after a federal
judge struck down parts of Utah’s anti-polygamy laws, the LDS Church
published an official essay about its historic ties to plural marriage, including an
acknowledgment that the practice persisted even into
the early 20th century….
Most
of the details in the piece on plural marriage are well-known to historians,
but some of them may be news to longtime Mormons or new converts in the
15 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The
practice of LDS men marrying more than one wife began with a divine revelation
to church founder Joseph Smith in the early 1840s, the site says.
"Thereafter, for more than half a century, plural marriage was practiced
by some Latter-day Saints."
…Even
though plural marriage is a distant memory in the Utah-based LDS Church, Mormon
scriptures — such as Doctrine and Covenants Section 132 — describe and
defend the practice and remain part of the mainline LDS canon.
LDS Apostasy is Foretold...
READ: D&C 1 Chapter Heading:
“Apostasy and wickedness precede the Second Coming”
(Remember the Church is 18 Months Old when this Revelation was given).
So sometime between 1831 and the Second Coming, "Apostasy and wickedness will precede the Second Coming:"
D&C 1:15- For they (LDS) have *strayed from mine ordinances, and have broken mine everlasting covenant;
(* LDS footnote: * ISAIAH CHAPTER 24 Chapter Heading: Men shall transgress the law and break the everlasting covenant—At the Second Coming they shall be burned: ISAIAH 24:5-The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have Transgressed the Laws, Changed the Ordinance, Broken the Everlasting Covenant.)
D&C 1 Goes on to Say:
22-That mine *everlasting covenant might (not yet) be established; 23-That the fulness of my gospel might (going to-but not yet) be proclaimed
Then in 1843 (12 years later) the *Everlasting Covenant IS Revealed:
D&C 132 Chapter Heading:
Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded July 12, 1843, relating to the new and Everlasting Covenant...
1- The principle and doctrine of their having many wives and concubines—
2-Behold, and lo, I am the Lord thy God, and will answer thee as touching this matter.
3- Therefore, prepare thy heart to receive and obey the instructions which I am about to give unto you; for all those who have this law revealed unto them must obey the same.
4- For behold, (NOW) I reveal unto you a new and an *Everlasting Covenant;
and if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned; for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory.
6- And as pertaining to the new and everlasting covenant, it was instituted for the fulness of my glory; and he that receiveth a fulness thereof must and shall abide the law, or he shall be damned, saith the Lord God.
So We See-the fulness of the gospel is the doctrine of their having many wives and concubines.
Apostasy and wickedness will precede the Second Coming happen Officially on October 6, 1890 see Official Declaration-1
and if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned; for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory.
(Thus Fulfilling D&C 1:15; Isaiah 24:5; 3 Nephi 16:10)
Mormon church traces Black
priesthood Ban to Brigham Young
Religion » Black
LDS praise the move; historian
calls it another step in the “maturation”
(the action or process of maturing) of the Utah-based faith.
Salt Lake Tribune - Dec 09 2013
In
the past, the LDS Church has said History isn’t clear
on why blacks were banned from its all-male priesthood for more than a century.
Apparently, it now is.
According
to a newly released explanation from the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, is rooted more in racism than revelation.
"Race and the Priesthood,"
posted Friday on the church’s website, lds.org, also jettisons any beliefs developed
through the years to defend the prohibition. And those findings are drawing
praise from black Mormons and historians…"And, to be perfectly frank,
there have been times when members or
leaders in the church have simply made mistakes.
There
may have been things said or done that were not in harmony with our values,
principles or doctrine," Dieter F. Uchtdorf,
second counselor in the faith’s governing First Presidency, said
in October’s LDS General Conference. "I suppose the church would be
perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and his doctrine
is pure. But he works through us — his imperfect children — and imperfect
people make mistakes."…While Mormons applaud the statement on race,
some believe the church needs to go much further. Some want an apology; some
just want wider awareness.
But Black priesthood history IS clear…
http://comingcrisis.blogspot.com/2012/07/jesus-called-people-dogs-pigs-wolves.html