My wife and I are HUGE fans of the Heartland Model for the BoM. In my mind, there is NO other alternative when reading what Joseph had to say on the matter. Yet, some schmuck injected an opinion into the mix back in the late 1800's and had some godless apostle (a Judas - I will not name names...) give his opinion on things happening in Central America along with his opinions on Darwinism and it took off; and here we are today. So many opinions. A lie took us away from the truth - and now we argue over a lie of a lie. We no longer debate the words of Joseph Smith and how to interpret them in relation to the mounds they wandered among, but we debate and machinate over whether it happened in Guatemala or in Chile and thus we are literally dealing with lies and contention that originate far from the source of truth.
Same thing with marriage. The lie is that a man can marry a man, nullifying the truth of the first commandment that a man and a woman should cleave to each other and twain become one flesh and then multiply and replenish the earth. Now we are arguing over it is normal for a bearded man to become artificially pregnant and use the women's bathroom, while lowering the age of consent to six years old, so it is normal for them to prey on victims within a sacrosanct space, leaving women particularly traumatized by the freak show out there. It is a form of institution-wide gas-lighting (making you out for the bigot if you do not accept the bizarre social constructs they are attempting to assemble and then foist on the public). And the devil laughs at our stupidity - knowing full well we generally fall into a trap that encompasses all of mankind. Truly, some brilliant work that only a genius could put together. But a fool all in the same (in that he thinks that he and his malcreant minions will actually win this contest).
The same thing with the fight for the heart and soul of the Brighamite church, which happens to be a belief in Plural Marriage. The arguments against it never deal with affirming statements by all of those of the inner circle that Joseph Smith taught it to and painted it in the proper light. Usually, they take a disparaging point of view, far removed from the source and then run with it in hopes that naive people who have not paid the price to read extensively, will take their flimsy arguments hook line and sinker. Thus the d'evil wins their souls. Many are falling for the silken arguments these days instead of paying the price to know for themselves. Personal revelation takes work!
The thing to be pointed out here is that the enemy of righteousness will seek to move the argument from solid ground to shaky ground where it can be manipulated at a whole new level and a fallacious set of accusations made so that contention will abound. This is what tore up the 4th Nephi Saints. It is what is tearing us up as Latter-day Saints, as prophesied. Mostly, it is laziness and wickedness brought on by prosperity and too much time on ones' hands. God is about to remedy that "problem" once again...
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