![]() I will email all of it you if you want it. Kimball, Willard Richards, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and Lorenzo Snow.Įngage the content, RFM. This practice of plural marriage was the bastard child of Brigham Young, Heber C. Instead of starting with the presumption that Joseph was a polygamist and finding the evidence to support the claim, let the facts speak for themselves. Why are these testimonies unreliable? Why is it that ONLY testimonies of Joseph’s presumed polygamy are considered? They can’t keep their dates straight.Įmma Smith denied it her dying day. The Temple Lot testimonies are very damning to Brigham and his co-conspirators. Smith, Joseph’s cousin, altering the history and summarily CHANGING Joseph’s statement that he forbade polygamy to “unless the Lord directs otherwise.” LDS history Richard Van Waggoner concedes this is the case. We have William Marks testimony that Joseph said to him that polygamy was evil and destroy the church. Wandell later penned a series of letters called the Argus letters, in which he states he knew Joseph Smith was not a polygamist, that the practice couldn’t be traced to him and that 132 was the product of Brigham Young. Wandell was so aghast at what he was witnessing that he up and left the church. ![]() We have assistant church historian Charles Wesley Wandell witnessing Brigham Young and Willard Richards altering Joseph Smith’s history. We have Brigham Young AND Lorenzo Snow claiming God revealed the practice to them before it was ever made known to Joseph Smith, but they just kept it to themselves. We know Brigham Young spent a LOT of time with Cochranite sex-cult up in Saco, Maine, even marrying one of their members. Hyrum vehemently denied they taught it or were involved in it. Hyrum then penned his 1844 letter to the saints at China Creek, condemning the practice, even identifying the “secret priesthood” they claimed gave them permission to marry more than one wife. ![]() Kimball writing about a “secret priesthood” that Hyrum was sniffing out. How does a man in his reproductive prime, who sleeping with dozens women, fail to produce a child? Joseph Smith was involved in some 200 court cases, trying to manage the influx of thousands of people, had lengthy jail stints, but STILL had time to marry three dozen women. Brigham was not only a terrible revelation forger, he was a lousy student of the bible. Not only that, 132 names Isaac and Moses as polygamists, which is patently not true. See Enid DeBarthe’s 1969 Book “A Bibliography of Joseph Smith–The Mormon Prophet-Leader.” Linguistic analysis reveals Brigham as the author. All accounts come well after the fact, sometimes decades later.ĭ&C 132 was written by Brigham Young. There NO CONTEMPORANEOUS ACCOUNTS of polygamy. Colfax was the VP of the United States.ĭ&C 132 appeared 8 years after Joseph’s death. Schuyler Colfax’s journal: Brigham says polygamy was revealed to him and select few others AFTER the 1835 inclusion of the statement on marriage included in the D&C (Section 101). Because it’s the most heinous of acts, its easy to dismiss everything else. I feel like many critics of the church NEED Joseph Smith to be a polygamist. RFM – I hope you will engage the overwhelming evidence Joseph was not a polygamist.
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