PS. You're denying what DavidM said about this?
Blainer) So far, I have seen nothing to prove all this happened.
Blainer) So far, I have seen nothing to prove all this happened. I
have, however, seen your biases showing on more than one occasion. I
have a book written by a non-LDS author, and even he shows much of what
you are saying was not only never proven, but in most cases was shown to
be inuendo, done by JS's enemies. Like Jesus, Joseph had plenty of
jealous/envious enemies, buzzing around, lookinfg for a place to land.
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 09:00:47 -0400 "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> Blainer wrote:
> > ... I have some questions, OK?
> > 1. How many wives did Jacob, later named Israel, have?
> > 2. How many wives did Abraham have?
> > 3. How many wives did Moses have?
> > 4. How were these men treated by God--were they
> > treated as sinners, or as men honored by God?
>
> The lives of these men hardly compare with Joseph Smith. If any of
> them had
> died at the same age as Joseph Smith, none of them could be used to
> bolster
> your case because none of them were polygamous prior to 38 years old
> (the
> age Joseph Smith died).
>
> Jacob was called a deceiver and a supplanter. This came back upon
> him when
> he was deceived and culturally forced into polygamy when his
> father-in-law
> insisted he marry the sister of the girl that he loved.
> Nevertheless, his
> four wives hardly compare to the unknown 35 to 60 wives that Joseph
> Smith
> had. Furthermore, unlike Jospeph Smith, he did not lie to his wives
> and to
> others, he did not pretend to only have one wife, he did not marry
> women
> already married to other men, etc.
>
> God never told Abraham to marry another, but his wife Sarah gave
> Abraham his
> second wife, perhaps in order to keep compliant with local
> governmental laws
> which required such action from a barren wife. Contrast this with
> Smith's
> wife objecting to Smith's many affairs, and bringing upon herself a
> false
> prophecy from Smith that God would destroy her if she didn't accept
> him.
> Instead, God destroyed Joseph Smith instead of Emma.
>
> After this blunder, of Abraham taking another wife, God told Abraham
> to send
> his second wife away, thereby ending his polygamy.
>
> Moses probably only had one wife, but some people argue that he had
> two.
>
> And despite all these gross differences, all these men were part of
> a
> different covenant with God. Jesus said that those in the kingdom
> of God
> are greater than all these men, and those in the Kingdom of God are
> instructed that elders can only have one wife. Joseph Smith has
> failed the
> Biblical standard of an elder having only one wife, and he has
> failed in tha
> t he lied about it, claiming to others while he was alive that he
> had only
> one wife.
>
> Peace be with you.
> David Miller.
