Was God okay with polygamy...?

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Tobin wrote:
LittleNipper wrote:Babies are also very self-centered. It is part of their nature.
Does that make a baby sinful?


It makes them narcissistic. If that is a sin, then so be it. Babies are over rated. They are demanding and often smell bad. I know this from personal experience. Fortunately, they get better as they age.
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Quasimodo wrote:
Tobin wrote:Does that make a baby sinful?
It makes them narcissistic. If that is a sin, then so be it. Babies are over rated. They are demanding and often smell bad. I know this from personal experience. Fortunately, they get better as they age.
Oh, I don't necessarily agree. I wish they'd stay babies. When the hit teenager, then the real problems start.
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Tobin wrote:Oh, I don't necessarily agree. I wish they'd stay babies. When the hit teenager, then the real problems start.



I am pretty sure that when your kids turn 13 aliens come down and swap your good kids out for their evil twins. Then when they turn 21 or so the aliens come back and give you your goods kids back.
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son of Ishmael wrote:
I am pretty sure that when your kids turn 13 aliens come down and swap your good kids out for their evil twins. Then when they turn 21 or so the aliens come back and give you your goods kids back.

I agree. There seems to be a sweet spot between the age of four and twelve when life is golden. At thirteen everything goes to hell.

At nineteen or twenty things start to get better, but then the college expenses start to become a burden. This can last many years. Kids are only good between 4 and 12 and then after 30 when you can take some comfort in the fact that they are now suffering their own offspring problems.
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Quasimodo wrote:
son of Ishmael wrote:
I am pretty sure that when your kids turn 13 aliens come down and swap your good kids out for their evil twins. Then when they turn 21 or so the aliens come back and give you your goods kids back.

I agree. There seems to be a sweet spot between the age of four and twelve when life is golden. At thirteen everything goes to hell.

At nineteen or twenty things start to get better, but then the college expenses start to become a burden. This can last many years. Kids are only good between 4 and 12 and then after 30 when you can take some comfort in the fact that they are now suffering their own offspring problems.




I just hope to live long enough to become a burden to my children
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son of Ishmael wrote:I just hope to live long enough to become a burden to my children


Poetic justice! :lol:
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son of Ishmael wrote:
I just hope to live long enough to become a burden to my children


I solved that by having enough kids so I can show up on their doorstep unannounced and say "Hi, I'm staying with you for the next 2 months. Feed me!"
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bcuzbcuz wrote:
son of Ishmael wrote:
I just hope to live long enough to become a burden to my children


I solved that by having enough kids so I can show up on their doorstep unannounced and say "Hi, I'm staying with you for the next 2 months. Feed me!"



Sweet.
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Was God okay with polygamy...?


Explicitly yes. 2 Samuel 12:7-11

But Jacob in the Book of Mormon stated...


You forgot vs. 30.
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Polygamy as referenced in the Bible and Book of Mormon involved sex.

If this supposed ancient principle was restored why are there so many defenders denying that Joseph Smith had sex with his POLYGAMOUS wives?

If what Joseph Smith was doing was nothing more than innocent make-believe sealings why did he and others refer to it as polygamy? Furthermore, why did ALL OTHERS who practiced this restored principle have sex with their extra wives but Joseph Smith did not?

How about this; Joseph was killed by God because he was not practicing the full principle of the restored principle of POLYGAMY? The angel could not get his flaming sword to light so God just used good old mob mentality with gunpowder and lead.
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