> > Between man and woman. According to D&C 132, plural marriage is OK as > long > as it is authorized by the priesthood. --JWR
Also given as a command to the people when the Lord wishes to raise up seed unto himself according to the Book of Mormon. Jacob 2:30. Obviously under priesthood authorization. We aren't that far removed from that very circumstance. I know a man who is the child of an authorized polygamist. He, the man I know, is awfully old, and his father has been dead for a long time. But the connection is pretty close. My grandfather, who died just 15 years ago was another child of polygamy. As was my grandmother. They had so many half brothers and sisters that they never met some of them. But their parents were participating in an honourable and most pragmatic exercise in the origins of this church. The development of the church was leapfrogged a hundred years by polygamy. In my completely unverifiable opinion. Bringing it back now could set the church back a hundred years too. Unless that's what the Lord decrees, in which case it's just the way it is. However I have no sense of it coming back, certainly no desire to see it. But I am curious how we are going to square the circle of proselyting those corners of the world where it is in good standing. But God has figured that out and he'll let us know when we have a need to know. For now, those who insist on practicing it separate themselves from the good fellowship and ordinances of the Church, and justly so. But I'm fiercely positive about the divine institution of plural marriage at and for the time and place that it was established. Tom ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^----------------------------------------------------------------
