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The Hidden family Values of the Mormon religion Every so often a Mormon polygamist makes the news. So many were aghast at his control and polygamy. But he is only practicing what the original founder and prophets taught and practiced in their own lives. The Mormon family is all an illusion, an image made for public through the TV. How Can I say that? They claim marriage is forever but they do not expect any male to be monogamous in Mormon heaven,they have polygamy in heaven. If it is acceptable there why is it not acceptable here on earth. Mormons must make up their minds whether God gave them these doctrines or it was invented by lustful men to further their own causes. Among their beliefs, they believe the Archangel Michael came down to earth with several of his celestial wives, and became Adam in the garden of Eden. They believe the angel Gabriel came down to earth and became Noah in the days of the flood. Thus he had three children. So all men are angels in heaven before they come to earth. Apostle Pratt stated, “Gods, angels and men are all of one species, one race, one great family, widely diffused among the planetary systems, as colonies, kingdoms, nations, etc.” (Key to Science of Theology, by Apostle Parley P. Pratt, p. 33) Some say there are tens of thousands of polygamous marriages in Utah. The public “know” about the Mormon church and its teachings through what they see on television. They portray a “wholesome” pro-family atmosphere. The young dedicated missionaries come to their door each week to promote their founders revelation and church. HOWEVER, one is unable to know the true teachings of the Mormon church they must go back to their primary resources. Then they find a promotion of a plurality of gods, man becoming a god and polygamy (numerous wives). The majority of the state of Utah is Mormon. “Does polygamy have a place in today's society? Yes, says a former Utah police officer convicted of sex offenses in a town in which more than half of his ex-colleagues are practitioners of polygamy. Hildale's Rodney Holm says plural marriage is a historic and current success. In a 115-page brief filed with the Utah Supreme Court, an attorney for former Holm argues the practice of polygamy is a constitutional right that never produced the social ills claimed by its opponents. And, the brief says, monogamy is the minority way of life worldwide. “Current demographics, domestic relations law, and religious diversity all accommodate plural marriage,” attorney Rodney Parker wrote. An eight-month investigation by the state of Utah has found more than half of the police officers in the southern town of Hildale practice polygamy – that is, having more than one spouse.” (WorldNetDaily.com LAW OF THE LAND Policeman: Polygamy is constitutional) It's a historic success, officer claims in appeal of conviction July 5, 2004) Year after year we hear of groups and cults that are involved in polygamy. Not all are Mormon but the majority are and the promotion of polygamy is exclusively found in the Mormon religion. Does this sound like the morals of a sound family, like the morals they hold today as they advertise themselves as promoting the family. This is not the same as how they began and what heaven is like to them today. Yet many accept them as family friendly but have no idea what there real teaching of the family is. Polygamy was practiced before they were given statehood (1857-58) they still believe in it as principle If the US did not make polygamy illegal may of the followers if not all of Joseph Smith would be practicing it today despite its violation in Scriptures.The founders of Mormonism family life were not monogamous. The 1st LDS “prophet” Joseph Smith, Jr. had 27 wives, some he took from others. In 1887, Assistant Church Historian Andrew Jenson made a list of 27 women who were sealed to Joseph Smith. (Historical Record, Vol. 6, page 233) More recent research, however, demonstrated that the number 27 was too small. Mormon writer John J. Stewart believed that Smith married “three to four dozen or more.” (Brigham Young and His Wives, 1961, pages 30-31) Smith secretly entered into plural marriage taking many wives for himself. In addition, he encouraged the brethren to do the same. In 1887, Assistant Church Historian Andrew Jenson made a list of 27 women who were sealed to Joseph Smith. (Historical Record, Vol. 6, p. 233) More recent research, shows the number 27 was low. Some say he had at many as 43 wives. (Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol.27, No. 1, Spring 1994, p. 60.) Joseph Smith was a practicing polygamist obedient to the “revelation” from his many gods. Smith allowed himself to be self deceived and then propagated this deception to others. In one deposition, Lucy Walker Smith claims that she became the plural wife of Joseph Smith in May of 1843. She claimed knowledge of “at least four” other women that Joseph Smith married and “associated and cohabited with” as wives with Emma's (his first wife) consent (Blood Atonement and the Origin of Plural Marriage, pp. 67- 88). The Mormon author John J. Stewart, however, states that Smith “married many other women, perhaps three or four dozen or more...” (Brigham Young and His Wives, ppp.30- 31) In No Man Knows My History, Fawn M. Brodie included a list of 48 women who may have been married to Joseph Smith. Stanley S. Ivins, who was considered to be “one of the great authorities on Mormon polygamy,” said that the number of Joseph Smith's wives “can only be guessed at, but it might have gone as high as sixty or more.” (Western Humanities Review, vol.10, pages 232-233) Some of these women were very young. Helen Marr Kimball born in November 1828 married Joseph Smith in May 1843at fourteen years old! -- FamilySearch.org The prophet also instructed many other Mormon men to enter into polygamy. Since the laws of the land did not allow such a practice, pretense was practiced by Smith and his followers. Brigham Young the 2nd LDS “prophet” Brigham Young, had at least 55 wives. (Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol.27, No. 1, Spring 1994, p. 67.) Mormonism claims their modern prophets are more important then the ones written of in the Bible President Brigham Young gave this official warning: “Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned . . . “ (Deseret News, November 14, 1855) President Young, like Joseph Smith, was very emphatic about the need for his people to practice polygamy. In 1873, he gave this warning: “Now, where a man in this church says, 'I don't want but one wife, I will live my religion with one,' he will perhaps be saved in the Celestial kingdom; but when he gets there he will not find himself in possession of any wife at all. He has had a talent that he has hid up. He will come forward and say, 'Here is that which thou gavest me, I have not wasted it, and here is the one talent,' and he will not enjoy it but it will be taken and given to those who have improved the talents they received, and he will find himself without any wife, and he will remain single forever and ever.” (Deseret News, Sept. 17, 1873) Abundant plurality is the underlying basis for Mormonism from its inception; many gods, many prophets and many wives. President after president followed his example in their teachings. 3rd LDS “prophet” John Taylor, had at least 16 wives. (Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol.27, No. 1, Spring 1994, p. 63.) 4th LDS “prophet” Wilford Woodruff, had at least 11 wives. (Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol.27, No. 1, Spring 1994, p. 66. ) 5th LDS “prophet” Lorenzo Snow had at least 10 wives, and was tried for polygamy. (Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol.27, No. 1, Spring 1994, p. 62, and The Changing World of Mormonism, Jerald and Sandra Tanner, p. 269. 6th LDS “prophet” Joseph F. Smith, had at least 5 wives, pleaded guilty and was convicted of “unlawful cohabitation,” sixteen years after the practice of polygamy was “officially” suspended. Source: Under The Prophet In Utah, Frank J. Cannon and Harvey J. O'Higgins, p. 268, and Deseret Evening News, Nov. 23, 1906, as quoted in The Changing World of Mormonism, Jerald and Sandra Tanner, p. 284. 7th LDS “prophet” Heber J. Grant was convicted of “unlawful cohabitation,” in 1899, nine years after the practice of polygamy was “officially” suspended. In 1903, he fled the U.S., to avoid being arrested again. Source: See the Daily Tribune, September 9, 1899, and The Changing World of Mormonism, Jerald and Sandra Tanner, p. 284. No matter what the numbers of wives are 12, 20 or 50 – anymore than one is being disobedient to God and his Apostle/prophet and savior Jesus Christ. If a Mormon is not practicing polygamy they are disobedient to the revelation given to their founder in 1843 in Nauvoo, Illinois, in which he received a “new and everlasting covenant” in which a man could receive “ten virgins” or more as wives and be “justified,” (Doctrine and Covenants, Section 132). Yet because of the law of the land they were forced to abandon one of their key doctrines. Yet Apostle Orson Pratt “Both God the father and our Lord Jesus Christ inherit their wives in eternity as well as time…” (Seer p.172). “We have clearly shown that God the father had a plurality of wives…”(Orson Pratt The Seer p.172) Mormon Apostle Orson Hyde taught that after Jesus Christ grew to manhood, he took at least three wives, Mary, Martha and Mary Magdalene. Through these wives, the Mormon Jesus, supposedly fathered a number of children before he was crucified. That Mormon founder, Joseph Smith, is one of his descendants. I said in my lecture on Marriage...that JESUS CHRIST WAS MARRIED at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, AND THAT HE BEGAT CHILDREN” (LDS Apostle Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 2, p. 210, emphasis added) Jedediah M. Grant, Second Counselor to Brigham Young believed “the doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus and his followers.” (Journal of Discourses, vol. 1, p. 346) Today the church still teaches polygamy except its location has shifted from earth to heaven. Celestial marriage How can one tell people they are for the family when they believe that when they get to heaven they will have more wives and keep them pregnant to populate a planet where they will be acknowledged as God as Adam was on planet earth. The Bible does not teach the family unit will be dissolved, only that we will not have more children.Mormonism gives the image and the impression to many who do not know better that they believe in the family and that it is of the utmost importance today and in the afterlife. But being silent on the whole doctrine is to practice deception toward those they are enlisting to join their new Christian religion. How would you feel as a wife if your husband could have many wives not only here on earth but in heaven? If this sounds like a non - family value, your right, it isn’t. This actually goes against the family. Jesus himself quotes Gen.2:24 about a husband and wife becoming one flesh, In Mt.19:5. He never said anything about wives, its singular not plural. Jesus said in Mk.12:25 “When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage.” We will be like the angels in heaven, who do not procreate despite what Mormonism claims. The Celestial kingdom is supposed to be the highest of the three Heavens. This is where faithful Mormons who have kept the ordinances of the Mormon gospel go. At this highest level, both men and women become Gods and Goddesses and will practice eternal sex. Men will be awarded dominion over their own planet and will gather many wives to them to populate it. This is why Mormonism has such an emphasis on sex. They believe that Adam, the first man described in the Bible, was one of these gods. “The only men who become Gods, even sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy.”(Brigham Young Journal of Discourses 11:269)Eternal Life Is Based Upon Marriage And The Family Unit “The great work and glory of the Lord is 'to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.' The only way this can be done is through marriage and the family. . . .”(J. F. Smith, The Way to Perfection, p. 251) 1855 – in Doctrine and Covenants Brigham young preached “Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned.”(Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3 p.266) (Deseret News, Nov. 14, 1855). He also stated, “Suppose this church should give up this holy order of marriage, then would the devil and all who are in league with him against the cause of God rejoice that they had prevailed upon the saints to refuse to obey one of the revelations and commandments of God to them,” (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 11, p. 239).What they did is drop the plural marriage on earth and hold to it for the afterlife – for eternity. The founders moral character that was to exemplify Christ’s holiness was far short of that ideal. So how does this work? As Ezra Taft Benson, current Prophet of the LDS Church explained, “Understand that temple marriage is essential to your salvation and exaltation,” (Ensign, May 1988, p. 51). “Each God, through his wife or wives, raises up a numerous family of sons and daughters; indeed, there will be no end to the increase of his own children; for each father and mother will be in a condition to multiply forever and ever. As soon as each God has begotten many millions of male and female spirits, and his Heavenly inheritance becomes too small to comfortably accommodate his great family, he, in connection with his sons, organizes a new world, after a similar order to the one which we now inhabit, where he sends both the male and female spirits to inhabit tabernacles of flesh and bones” (The Seer, Vol. 1, p. 37, Apostle Orson Pratt.) The numerous of marriages are supposed to produce the spirit children described earlier who eventually come to earth (or the other planet) to be born and populate it. A sealing to have hundreds of wives in heaven In 1887, Assistant Church Historian Andrew Jenson made a list of 27 women who were sealed to Joseph Smith. (Historical Record, vol. 6, p. 233). Further research, has demonstrated that the number 27 was too small. Mormon author John J. Stewart disclosed: “...he married Louisa Beaman at Nauvoo... he married many other women, perhaps three to four' dozen or more... “ (Brigham Young and his Wives, 1961, pp. 30-31) Stewart noted that Joseph Smith also had “ 150 dead women…sealed to him; also a few women sealed to him after his death.” (p. 96).According to the “Journal of Abraham H. Cannon,” April 5, 1894, President Wilford Woodruff, the fourth president of the church, said he had himself sealed to “about four hundred of my femal[e] kindred.” Apostle Cannon also noted in his journal that a man could have up to “999”wives sealed to him for eternity. If anyone actually did take that many wives, he would by-pass them all! “In the Heaven where our spirits were born, there are MANY GODS, each one of whom has his own wife or wives which were given to him previous to his redemption, while yet in his mortal state. Each God, through his wife or wives, raises up a numerous family of sons and daughters; ...for each father and mother will be in a condition to MULTIPLY FOREVER AND EVER. As soon as each God has begotten many millions of male and female spirits, and his Heavenly inheritance becomes too small, to comfortably accommodate his great family, he, in connection with his sons, organizes a new world, after a similar order to the one which we now inhabit, where he sends both the male and female spirits to inhabit tabernacles of flesh and bones.... The inhabitants of each world are required to reverence, adore, and worship their own personal father who dwells in the Heaven which they formerly inhabited.... The number of the sons and daughters of God, born in Heaven before this earth was formed, is not known by us. They must have been exceedingly numerous... The amount of population now on the globe, is estimated in round numbers at one thousand million. If we take this estimation for the average number per century, during the seven thousand years of its temporal existence it will amount to seventy thousand millions [i.e., 70 billion].... It will be seen, from this estimation, that about seventy thousand million sons and daughters were born in Heaven, and kept their first estate... If we admit that one personage was the Father of all this great family, and that they were all born of the same Mother, the period of time intervening between the birth of the oldest and the youngest spirit must have been immense. If we suppose, as an average, that only one year intervened between each birth then it would have required, over one hundred thousand millions of years for the same Mother to have given birth to this vast family.... Should the period between each birth, be one hundred times shorter than what is required in this world, (which is very improbable,) it would still require over one thousand million of years to raise up such a numerous progeny.... But... it is altogether probable that the period required for the formation of the infant spirit, is of the same length as that required in this world... If the Father of these spirits, prior to his redemption, had secured to himself, through the everlasting covenant of marriage, many wives... the period required to people a world would be shorter... if it required one hundred thousand million of years to people a world like this... it is evident that, with a hundred wives, this period would be reduced to only one thousand million years.” (LDS “Apostle” Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 37-39, emphasis added.) Pratt also says “...he, in connection with his sons, ORGANIZES A NEW WORLD, ...where he sends both the male and female spirits to inhabit tabernacles of flesh and bones. Thus each God FORMS A WORLD for the accomodation of his own sons and daughters....The inhabitants of each world are REQUIRED to reverence, adore, and WORSHIP their own personal father who dwells in the Heaven which they formerly inhabited.” So many wives in heaven, carrying on intimate relations throughout eternity, until they have enough children to populate their own earth, so they can be “Heavenly Father” over their own planet! As stated by one of their own prophets: “if a man has no divine right to marry two wives or more in this world, then marriage for eternity is not true, and your faith is in vain, and all the sealing ordinances and powers pertaining to marriages for eternity are vain, worthless, good for nothing; for as sure as one is true the other also must be true.” (Journal of Discourses, vol. 21, p. 296). For those of you who are considering Mormonism as a church to go to and just another Christian religion – look deeper. For the Mormons who are searching for truth; consider the founders statements of your church and then look to Jesus Christ words in the Bible, you will not be disappointed.
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