Tag Archives: Brigham Young

LDS Contradictions: The Spirit Enters the Body When…

27 February

Job 31:15 “Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?” Being raised in Utah Mormonism affords a person many experiences of being taught things that aren’t necessarily standard LDS doctrine. Today we’re looking at one of those. A few weeks ago I came across […]

Mormon Resurrection Creates Bedlam

24 February

“But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,  he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.” Romans 8:11 Today we’re looking at an excerpt in Wilford Woodruff’s Journal. The 4th president/prophet of the Church was a prolific author, and note keeper. […]

Brigham Young: Christian God a Myth, Mormon god has No Blood

01 November

Journal of Discourses 19:64 “Now, little children, can you conceive what kind of a being this is? You say, “It’s nothing at all.” That is just what it is; it is a myth; it is nothing to look at, nothing to adore, nothing to worship, nothing to admire, nothing to appeal to for help. He has […]

LDS: Penalty for Sin is Polygamy

01 October

Deseret News ~ “…Joseph received a revelation on celestial marriage. You will recollect, brethren and sisters, that it was in July, 1843, that he received this revelation concerning celestial marriage. …there are some who say it is very hard. They say, ‘This is rather a hard business; I don’t like my husband to take a plurality of […]

Brigham: ‘Let Me See No Boys Above 16, No Girls Above 14 Unmarried’

12 September

The Lion of the Lord: a biography of Brigham Young, pp. 126 – 127““Make haste and get married,” Remy heard Young preach. “Let me see no boys above sixteen and girls above fourteen unmarried.” …. Fifteen years later as Dodge’s party listened, the prophet said he had married his wives not “for love or lust” […]