Comments on: What was Joseph and Emma’s Relationship Like After Polygamy? https://askgramps.org/polygamyjoseph-smithemma-smith/ Moral answers to everyday concerns, curiosities, and uncertainties. Gramps considers all questions on all topics from all sources. Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:03:55 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mr. Berry https://askgramps.org/polygamyjoseph-smithemma-smith/#comment-35141 Fri, 01 Jul 2016 05:59:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=12168#comment-35141 In reply to Ruth.

For what reason would Joseph Smith need to be married/sealed to another man’s wife, while the other man was on a mission? You can read this story https:www.lds.org/topics/pluralmarriage. What you said Ruth is what I used to believe and accept. But it is not the truth. I have come to accept the truth about Joseph Smith and his many, many wives. And I believe he consummated most of those relationships as well. It is better to just face the truth and move forward instead of making excuses that are untruthful.
My faith is in Jesus Christ and the restored gospel, not in a man.

]]> By: izzymuse https://askgramps.org/polygamyjoseph-smithemma-smith/#comment-34279 Thu, 23 Jul 2015 06:30:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=12168#comment-34279 Joseph Smith Jr.’s polygamy is discussed in detail by this essay approved by the First Presidency: https://www.lds.org/topics/plural-marriage-in-kirtland-and-nauvoo?lang=eng

Joseph Smith was married “spiritually”, not legally, to more than twenty women. Some of his wives were married to faithful leaders (one was an apostle’s wife), several were around 14 years old, and some were sisters/ mother-daughter relations. These are discussed in the essay released by the LDS Church linked above.

]]> By: Ruth https://askgramps.org/polygamyjoseph-smithemma-smith/#comment-33353 Sun, 21 Sep 2014 17:25:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=12168#comment-33353 Correct me if I am wrong, but weren’t a lot of wives sealed to faithful members because they needed care and protection? In a time when women needed a husband to care for them because they did not work to support themselves and were not safe without a man to help I think God provided a way for these single women to be protected. I cannot quote a source for this, I’m sorry, but I have heard that most of Brigham Young’s wives were widows of men who had died, or unfaithful men who had left or stayed behind when the church headed West and that they were “given” to him to care for and that is what he did, care for and provide for them. I see it as a tender mercy from God, albeit a one that may have been hard to see at the time.

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