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LDS founder Joseph Smith’s many wives Comments 0

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014

After officially acknowledging earlier this month that founder Joseph Smith had multiple wives, some of them as young as 14, officials at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are now facing two important questions. Who were these women, and what are their stories? Smith was already married when he began to set his Read more

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Mormon founder Joseph Smith had up to 40 wives, LDS church says Comments 0

Friday, November 14th, 2014

Mormon founder Joseph Smith had as many as 40 wives, including a 14-year-old girl, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has admitted. The church’s teachings had previously portrayed Smith has having been happily married to one woman only. The revelations of Smith’s polygamy came in an essay posted on the LDS church’s Read more

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  • Jonathan Godfrey Something worth considering in relation to this subject is that the Code of Canon Law explicitly states "Any baptized person not prohibited by law can and must be admitted to holy communion." (Canon 912). The Law of the Church does not specify a requirement to be Catholic, merely that one is...

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  • Richard Duthie "When we live in such a way, and legislate in such a way, we become as individuals and a nation, more enslaved than any slave ever shipped to faraway shores." The premise behind this statement is a faith position, not a known fact or proven reality. No matter how fervently it is believed, it is...

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  • RobertoGill I find it interesting that with a recent survey indicating nearly 70% of Catholics don’t believe in the Real Presence there is much talk about allowing Protestants to share Communion with Catholics. Before even considering allowing this, perhaps we should be going all out tackling the problem of...

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  • Kieran Genesis 1:27 makes it quite clear that both men and women are created in the image of God. Galatians 3:28 states that in Baptism "There is no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female, for all of you are one in Jesus Christ." We use Baptism for the breaking down of barriers between...

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  • Richard Duthie Thank you so much for that thoughtful response.

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