David Miller wrote: > How could a 5 year old marry Joseph Smith? > DaveH explained that it was a sealing or celestial > marriage.
DAVEH wrote: > And if I remember correctly, I mentioned that it > happened AFTER JS had died. It was not as some > TTers have been trying to imply.....that he married > a 5 year old whilst he was in mortality. Yes, I remember you mentioning this, but not as a fact, but as a guess at what might have happened because no date for the marriage was given in the record. Since that time, I learned that she married Kimball on a specific date, which was less than two years after Joe Smith died. I do not understand your marriage practices very well, so you will have to tell me. Does the fact that she married Kimball a few years later along with many other wives of Joseph Smith suggest to you that she had married Joe while he was still alive? That's the way I took this new information, but you will have to clarify the Mormon perspective for me. Do you think it was possible that she was married to Joe Smith after her marriage to Kimball? If so, why? I do not understand how someone can unilaterally marry someone else after they have died? How many women are going to marry you after you have died? Is this kind of marriage still practiced in Mormonism? How do you think Joe's wife Emma felt about people marrying her husband, not only while she was alive, but after he had died? Also, forget about Joe Smith for a moment and answer me how a 7 year old marries an old man like Kimball. Whether or not she was Joe Smith's widow at the time, we do have the date for her marriage to Kimball, so there can be no hypothesis that she married him later after he was dead. What do you think about your apostle Kimball marrying a 7 year old girl? I've asked this several times and have never received an answer. Peace be with you. David Miller. ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
