Lds, Mormons, What is Brigham Young saying here? A man losing his wife in Heaven...?

Question

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"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.”
~ LDS President and Prophet Brigham Young, Deseret News, September 17, 1873.

So if a man (at this point in time) that is LDS and he just wants one wife, and when he get to Heaven, EN he will GET NO wife because he, "had a talent that he has hid up" (the taking on more than one wife)
Now let me get this straight is he saying here that a man's that only wants 1 wife... That his wife (talent) will be taken from him and given to another LDS man there?
"it will be taken and given to those who have improved the talents they received"

(I don't think He's referring to talents as in, playing the piano, he is saying the MAN will lose his wife in Heaven, (in the Celestial Kingdom) for not taking on more wives, and showing his "talents."

What is this ALL about?
Where does Brigham Young become un-believable to LDS?

*During his leadership he just keeps going on and on about things that the LDS church of today does not believe... But he was a prophet of God? and is still called that...

LDS and others, Thoughts please?

Answer 1

Brigham Young was clear in his many sermons that polygamy was "essential for salvation." Here's one such quote.



"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). Also, "The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy," (Journal of Discourses, vol. 11, p. 269).



Brigham Young also added something interesting to Paul's declaration of what saving faith was. Check it out. ""...and he that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is Antichrist," (Journal of Discourses, vol. 9, p. 312)." Yikes!



Here's a great website that lists many other strange quotes from the nut job Brigham Young. http://carm.org/brigham-young-quotes

Answer 2

Brigham is making clear reference to the Parable of the talents. The man with one talent did nothing to increase that talent so he lost it when it came time to make an accounting. In this case, Brigham is stating that the man is being called upon to increase his family by taking another wife and he refused. By so doing, he is being proud and turning his back on God. God will not take kindly to being told no by that man. Thus, he will lose the wife he was originally given because he refused to increase his family when given the command and opportunity to do so.

This is not difficult. For us today, that is not an issue because we are not being asked to take on more than one wife. The times and circumstances have changed since then.

Answer 3

i like these words.

brigham spoke manny things. that would even suprise the LDS themselves.

in the days of Joseph Smith the new and everlasting covenant consisted of Plural Marriage. It still does.

its not a contradiction to preach plural marriage and yet forbid plural marriage. Jacob ch. 2, says unless God will command it, a man is to have only one wife.

when Brigham Young was alive, he is now defending plural marriage.

after his death, the church went into historical legal Oppression from the federal Government, everyone was either in jail for having more than one wife or the church was being blackmailed for all the properties and ownership of the church or to give up the beliefs in the polygamy.



d&C 132 also describes what it means to be a part of plural marriage.



i believed plural marriage More than i believed in eternal marriage, i thought eternal marriage was the hardest obstacle of all to accept.



there are many things said about marriage. and i think the greatest misunderstood doctrine of marriage is when Jesus says there is no marriage in heaven. thats because jesus said to peter, i give you power to bind in earth and bind in heaven. (marriage) The power and authority of the priesthood is about judgment, and marriage, and divorce.

some men will not be worthy

some women will not be worthy.

the women who are not worthy will be taken from those men that are worthy. and the women who ARE worthy will be given to men that are worthy.

hence if no one is "worthy" than no one is married. or bound, everyone is loosed.

Answer 4

Joseph Smith and Brigham Young taught that there was no salvation without practicing polygamy. When Utah wanted to become a state the federal government forbade them because of the Mormon practice of polygamy. Then the Mormon president had a "revelation" that polygamy was wrong.

Answer 5

dont listen to the lds. all the have to say is a bunch of bullshit. it's obviously a man fantasy about having wives (note the plural) in heaven.

Answer 6

I was mormon for manny years, now i am free and i follow Jesus. the way the bible teaches. what an amazing difference.