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Posted by: Simone Stigmata ( )
Date: November 09, 2010 09:44PM

Okay, I borrowed this from another site, but I really think it needs a lot of circulation.Take the following quiz to find out how much you really know about him.

How many of these would your average TBM get correct?

QUIZ:

1. How many women did Joseph Smith marry while he was alive besides Emma? A: thirty-two.

2. How many of these women were older than him? A: five

3. How many of these women were in his peer group of 30-40 years of age? A: eight

4. How many of these women were 21-29 years of age when he married them? A: nine

5. How many were less than 20 years of age when he married them? A: eleven

6. How many were already married to other men when he married them? A: five

7. How many of these women filed affidavits stating their marriage to Joseph Smith included sexual intercourse? A: thirteen

8. How old was the youngest girl that he married? A: fourteen

9. What was her name? A: Helen Mar Kimball

10. Her birthday? A: August 28th, 1828

11. The date of her marriage to him? A: May 1843

12. His age on that date? A: thirty-eight

13. Would you let your fourteen year old daughter marry a thirty-eight year old man?

14. What kind of thirty-eight year old man would want to marry a 14 year old girl?

15. Number of references to his wives other than Emma on the JosephSmith.net website sponsored by the LDS Church? A: zero

16. Why zero?

Sources:
FamilySearch.org
Kirtland Temple legal proceedings

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Posted by: Holy the Ghost ( )
Date: November 09, 2010 09:57PM

How many were already married to other men when he married them? A: five
I'm pretty sure it was more than 5.

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Posted by: ed ( )
Date: November 09, 2010 10:00PM

Yeah, I thought Compton details 11 women that were married to still-living husbands.

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Posted by: Anon ( )
Date: November 09, 2010 10:18PM

From a prior post:

In Nauvoo the problem was that Joseph Smith created TWO churches not ONE, and these two churches completely CONTRADICTED each other.

This is one of the most salient proofs that Smith was NOT following any divine direction.

One "Secret Church" was hiding inside the other; this inner church believed in and practiced polygamy -- supposedly by God's direct commandment. This is documented by the Mormon church itself (LDS genealogy library, church affidavits).

The second "Public Church" was being told that God DIDN'T condone polygamy and that polygamy WASN'T being practiced. This too is documented by the Mormon church itself (Nauvoo City Council records, Smith own statements, and local Church Newspapers etc.)!

This was pure duplicity! Two opposite beliefs and practices existed in Nauvoo at THE SAME TIME and both of these contradictory laws were supposedly given through God's revealed will!

That is simply impossible!

The publisher of the “Nauvoo Expositor” brought this impossibility to light. Smith and the City Leaders destroyed his business property without due legal process (caused a riot). Smith went to jail for it and was killed there.

The church eventually divided: One group (Utah Mormons) followed Smith's polygamy church; The other (RLDS) followed Emma's non-polygamy believers -- and BOTH churches could justify their beliefs due to Smith's contradictory words!

Was this the evidence of a "house of order"? Was this the work of a just and consistent God? No! This was obviously hypocrisy; It was exactly what Christ described as the evidence of a False Prophet! Christ said to forget, totallyn disregard, any nice sheep-like appearances and manners because there is often a wolf hiding inside. Christ said to sternly investigate what these "prophets" ACTUALLY DO. That's ALL that really counts -- ACTIONS!

Christ said: "By their FRUITS ye shall know them." Smith lied about the most basic morality that humans share: the nature of marriage and the definition of what a family should be!

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Posted by: perceptual ( )
Date: November 09, 2010 10:22PM

This doesn't sound much different than Warren Jeffs. It seems like all polygamists eventually go to younger and younger girls; how could this man be foreordained of God?

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Posted by: Mo Larkey ( )
Date: November 09, 2010 10:33PM

affidavits stating their marriage to Joseph Smith included sexual intercourse? 13

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Posted by: Simone Stigmata ( )
Date: November 09, 2010 10:47PM

I pulled the quiz from another site. Also, wwwdoti4mdotcom has more info on the 13 who testified.

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Posted by: Freevolved ( )
Date: November 09, 2010 10:54PM


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