Joseph Smith and Polygamy “Rachel Ridgway Ivins Grant, mother of future LDS president Heber J. Grant, refused to even meet with Joseph Smith, saying that she would “sooner go to hell as a virtuous woman than to heaven as a whore.” – Nauvoo Polygamy Demographic Report, pg. 24, George A. Smith
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The Saints of Polygamy Tonight it is with both joy and a heavy heart that I write to you. I pray that you, as our faithful partner with Life After Ministries, will continue to hold us up in your prayers and especially pray for all of those caught in the lies of Mormonism.
Joseph Smith, Polygamy and Under Age Girls
Joseph Smith, Polygamy and Under Age Girls As everyone who reads our blog and site knows, we’ve been following the case of Warren Jeffs who was found guilty of sex crimes against minors and today (August 9, 2011) we saw that he was sentenced to life plus twenty years. While he may be paying for […]
The Differences Between FLDS vs. LDS
Just in Case You Didn’t Know… After watching various news reports about Warren Jeffs over the past few months we felt it might help the casual visitor to understand the differences between the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) in Eldorado, Texas (also in various towns throughout Utah) and the Church of […]
Prayer Needed for the Polygamy Trial in Texas
As we begin our week next week Life After Ministries will be paying close attention to the trial going on in Texas against Warren Jeffs, the prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We’re asking our fellow Christian readers to come alongside us in prayer for those caught in the ugliness […]
Polygamy Quotes
Polygamy Quotes Ezra Taft Benson Journal of Discourses 6:181; “The next man who came on to the carpet wanted to know how many wives brother Brigham had. I replied, “I have not come here to lay before this people the domestic affairs of my Governor. It is a question I never asked him myself, for […]
Mormon Dilemmas 13
Mormon Dilemma 13 Joseph Smith’s Polygamy Problem In Sacred Loneliness, pg. 463; “In the year 1842 President Joseph Smith sought an interview with me, and said, ‘I have a message for you, I have been commanded of God to take another wife, and you are the woman.’ … He asked me if I believed him […]
An Overview of Polygamy and Mormon Church Leaders
An Overview of Polygamy and Mormon Church Leaders Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy 1841-1846; A Preliminary Demographic Report, George D. Smith, pg. 32; “Over the six years when polygamy was practiced in Nauvoo, 1841 to 1846, Smith, Kimball, and Young were the most-married men in Nauvoo; they accounted, in fact, for 117 of the 434 […]
Polygamy and Mormon Church Leaders 7
Heber Jeddy Grant 1856 – 1945 Heber Grant was a busy guy during his tenure as the seventh president/prophet of the Mormon Church. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heber_J._Grant http://www.ldsces.org/inst_manuals/pres-sm/pres-ch-07-09.htm Grant is the reason obeying the Word of Wisdom is mandatory to get into the temple.
Polygamy and Mormon Church Leaders 6
Polygamy and Mormon Church Leaders 6 Joseph Fielding Smith, Sr. 1838-1918 Joseph Fielding Smith, Sr. was the son of Hyrum Smith and nephew of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Mormon Church. Journal of Discourses 20:27; “A man that is not honest in his heart, who does not desire to be just and impartial, even […]