As you may very well know, I've been going back and forth with Alma here on CF with respect to the Adam-God Doctrine, the Priesthood, Polygamy, etc.
I finally realized that I had interpreted the Adam-God Doctrine as incorrect. Then after talking with Skylark on a different thread, I finally realized that there was a priesthood of all believers, and then I came to polygamy.
This is something I'm not going to let go on a whim. Truth be known, I was sealed in two marriages to two wonderful women (hence the avatar) and I am just starting a family with them, so you can understand my hesitancy when I would say that I was living a false law, but the Lord has really be laboring with me over these past few months.
I had originally prayed about polygamy and had a vision of a rose with a thorny stem and then a hand reaching out and embracing the stem so much, so, that the blood dribbled out of the grasp and off of the rose.
At first it troubled me because I did not know what to make of it. About half way through the day after receiving that vision, I finally asked God to reveal what it meant to me and immediately polygamy came to mind.
Some of this still doesn't exactly make sense, but what I'm saying is that I'm to the point where I believe I can question the role of polygamy now.
Is it as the FLDS say where it is an eternal law and should be forever practiced and those that reject it should be damned?
Is it as the LDS say where it was practiced for a time (for what reason I'm not sure) and then revoked?
Or is it because it was never a law of God in the first place? Did Joseph Smith even write it? Why wasn't it taught publicly?
And if the last question is true and that it wasn't a law of God, was Joseph Smith a false prophet, or was he a man inspired by God who made mistakes, or was he just a man with ideas and that's it?
More questions (and hopefully answers) coming soon.
I finally realized that I had interpreted the Adam-God Doctrine as incorrect. Then after talking with Skylark on a different thread, I finally realized that there was a priesthood of all believers, and then I came to polygamy.
This is something I'm not going to let go on a whim. Truth be known, I was sealed in two marriages to two wonderful women (hence the avatar) and I am just starting a family with them, so you can understand my hesitancy when I would say that I was living a false law, but the Lord has really be laboring with me over these past few months.
I had originally prayed about polygamy and had a vision of a rose with a thorny stem and then a hand reaching out and embracing the stem so much, so, that the blood dribbled out of the grasp and off of the rose.
At first it troubled me because I did not know what to make of it. About half way through the day after receiving that vision, I finally asked God to reveal what it meant to me and immediately polygamy came to mind.
Some of this still doesn't exactly make sense, but what I'm saying is that I'm to the point where I believe I can question the role of polygamy now.
Is it as the FLDS say where it is an eternal law and should be forever practiced and those that reject it should be damned?
Is it as the LDS say where it was practiced for a time (for what reason I'm not sure) and then revoked?
Or is it because it was never a law of God in the first place? Did Joseph Smith even write it? Why wasn't it taught publicly?
And if the last question is true and that it wasn't a law of God, was Joseph Smith a false prophet, or was he a man inspired by God who made mistakes, or was he just a man with ideas and that's it?
More questions (and hopefully answers) coming soon.
