open to anyone who was accounted worthy
How is this determined? How is someone Worthy? If they are not worthy then you should conceal things from them?This select group of initiates, is not exactly what one would call PUBLIC.
The Principle became semi PUBLIC Aug 1852
"Revelation on the Eternity of the Marriage Covenant, including Plurality of Wives. Given through Joseph, the Seer, in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, July 12, 1843."
The publication of the "revelation" was made at a Church Conference which opened in Salt Lake City on August 28, 1852, and was called especially to select elders for missionary work. At the beginning of the second day's session Orson Pratt announced that, unexpectedly, he had been called on to address the conference on the subject of a plurality of wives. "We shall endeavor," he said, "to set forth before this enlightened assembly some of the causes why the Almighty has revealed such a doctrine, and why it is considered a part and portion of our religious faith."
Joe Fornicated with women previous to the 1843 date see:
All the while D&C 101 was published in all editions (1835, 1844, 1845, 1849, 1852, 1854, 1866, and 1869), up until the 1876 edition when they Finally inserted D&C 132 and removed 101 because of obvious problems such as:
1) "all marriages in this Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints should be solemnized in a public meeting"
2) "Inasmuch as this Church of Christ has been reproached with the CRIME of fornication and polygamy, we declare that we believe that one man should have one wife, and one woman but one husband, except in case of death, when either is at liberty to marry again."
So it looks like it really became PUBLIC in 1876
Blaine Borrowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] What advantage is there to Mormonism?
> Blaine wrote:
> > I believe in your heart you have fellowshipped with
> > Jesus Christ. I believe, however, that all things
> > not entered into by Jesus Christ's properly acknowledged
> > authority--the priesthood as revealed to Joseph Smith
> > and Oliver Cowdery--will be of no effect in the world
> > to come, in and after the resurrection.
>
> Here's the problem, Blaine. You acknowledge that I have fellowship with
> Jesus Christ. Well, I asked him about Joseph Smith, and he showed me
> how Joe was a con-man, and that this priesthood revelation was not from
> Him. Instead, Joe borrowed various concepts from various sources and
> created this thing himself. Now either you are lying to me or Jesus
> Christ is lying to me, or perhaps you think that I am lying to you.
> Which is it?
>
> I believe that I can show you through the Scriptures that this
> priesthood authority is false, but you would have to accept the Bible to
> be a greater authority than the BOM, D&C, and PGP.
Blaine: Of course I would not accept the Bible as being the final word on
it--you have to remember the entire doctrine of new revelation is involved
here, so it would be a disavowel of that entire concept for me to go solely
to the Bible for a proof or disproof of the Mormon concept of Priesthood
authority. The possibility of New revelation is provable from the Bible,
so if you want to go that route, OK. But as I recall, you and DaveH have
already explored that extensively. (:>)
I'm not sure you are
> able to do that. Would you care to comment on how Joe Smith failed the
> elder criteria of the Bible?
Blaine: I don't see that he failed it. JS was a married man, married to
one wife only, when the church was first formed in 1830. That's about when
he became the first elder. Plural marriage as a doctrine did not get
started until shortly before JS was martyred in 1842--and still was not
widely practiced until after the Saints had departed from Nauvoo--I believe
it was at Winter Quarters that BY first announced it as an official church
doctrine, open to anyone who was accounted worthy. Prior to that, only
selected men practiced it--men selected by the prophet himself, perhaps as a
test to see if men of proven integrity could handle it, then others might be
allowed to do such too. JS was always "proving" things, as I have read
about him. He once told John Taylor he needed to have his wife for awhile,
then renigged at the last moment and admitted to John Taylor that it was all
just a test of his loyalty to the prophet--sort of like Abraham being tested
of the Lord when he was commanded to sacrifice his only son from his wife,
Sarah. These tests may have been where the rumor got started that JS was
after other men's wives.
>
> Peace be with you.
> David Miller, Beverly Hills, Florida.
>
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