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It’s weird that people struggle if they think Joseph Smith practiced polygamy or lied for the Lord, but it’s okay that Brigham Young did that. Polygamy is on Brigham’s shoulders. The recent discovery of a draft of D&C 132 in 1852 is pretty convincing. Imagine that: Utah Mormons who believed in lying for the Lord actually lied.
If we read Jacob 2 in context, there is no way the Lord was making an exception for polygamy in a little spot with commas placed by the Church. If you take the commas out, it continues being against many wives.
What the Church conveniently forgets, however, is that Jacob 2 is not the only place in the Book of Mormon that is against the practices of having many wives and concubines.
Mosiah 11:14 And it came to pass that he placed his heart upon his riches, and he spent his time in riotous living with his wives and his concubines; and so did also his priests spend their time with harlots.
The many wives and concubines is in parallel to harlots.
Ether 10:5
5 And it came to pass that Riplakish did not do that which was right in the sight of the Lord, for he did have many wives and concubines…
The “doctrine” of polygamy has always tasted bad to me. After studying contemporaneous sources of Joseph Smith’s day, and also the Joseph Smith Papers deeply, I believe it is a false doctrine that was instituted by Brigham Young and those close to him.
I agree with Bobby that the Church protects it because it does throw the line of succession into question. But not only that, it also makes one question if the Church leaders from Brigham Young on were supporting it and saying it was from God, but it really wasn’t, all the way up to President Nelson, how could these men be true prophets? If Joseph Smith actually fought against it, a man who was in the presence of the Lord, and these men are contrary to that, then who are they???
It is a Pandora’s box these leaders don’t want to open. Who are these men who supposedly are “prophets, seers, and revelators,” that stand in opposition to a real prophet, seer, and revelator, given that title by the Lord himself, not just “sustained by the members” as such.
By the way, I Play the Radio doesn’t want or need more than one wife either. I’m enough.