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:''Note that the Tanners make it appear as if the LDS men believe they can have as many wives as they want in this life, while Heber is speaking of the rewards granted the faithful in the ''next'' life, despite all they have had to sacrifice. | :''Note that the Tanners make it appear as if the LDS men believe they can have as many wives as they want in this life, while Heber is speaking of the rewards granted the faithful in the ''next'' life, despite all they have had to sacrifice. | ||
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::And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, '''or wife''', or children, or lands, for my name's sake, '''shall receive an hundredfold''', and shall inherit everlasting life ({{b||Matthew|19|29}}). | ::And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, '''or wife''', or children, or lands, for my name's sake, '''shall receive an hundredfold''', and shall inherit everlasting life ({{b||Matthew|19|29}}). | ||
| − | :''Would the Tanners claim that Jesus "believed in having one hundred wives"? | + | :''Would the Tanners claim that Jesus "believed in having one hundred wives"?'' |
| − | : We also note that Heber's remark about "thousands" indicates that there are thousands of unsealed people available to be joined to the faithful. Kimball's remarks are clearly rhetorical, and intended to describe the greatness of the reward granted the faithful despite all their sacrifices. | + | :''We also note that Heber's remark about "thousands" indicates that there are thousands of unsealed people available to be joined to the faithful. Kimball's remarks are clearly rhetorical, and intended to describe the greatness of the reward granted the faithful despite all their sacrifices. |
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I have known men from Nauvoo, men who were there worth $150 or $200,000, come here with nothing but a handkerchief, containing a change of shirts, under their arms. They left their property there; and what we did not leave in hell's kitchen we left at Devil's Gate. The devil has a gate where he may catch everything that is not to do us good, but that is calculated to create a craving appetite for that which is not here....
Supposing that I have a wife or a dozen of them, and she should say, "You cannot be exalted without me," and suppose they all should say so, what of that? The never will affect my salvation one particle. Whose salvation will they affect? Their own. They have got to live their religion, serve their God, and do right, as well as myself. Suppose that I lose the whole of them before I go into the spirit world, but that I have been a good, faithful man all the days of my life, and lived my religion, and had favour with God, and was kind to them, do you think I will be destitute there? No, the Lord says there are more there than there are here. They have been increasing there; they increase there a great deal faster than we do here, because there is no obstruction. They do not call upon the doctors to kill their offspring; there are no doctors there, that is, if they are there, their occupation is changed, which proves that they are not there, because they have ceased to be doctors. In this world very many of the doctors are studying to diminish the human family.
In the spirit world there is an increase of males and females, there are millions of them, and if I am faithful all the time, and continue right along with brother Brigham, we will go to brother Joseph and say, "Here we are brother Joseph; we are here ourselves are we not, with none of the property we possessed in our probationary state, not even the rings on our fingers?" He will say to us, "Come along, my boys, we will give you a good suit of clothes. Where are your wives?" "They are back yonder; they would not follow us." "Never mind," says Joseph, "here are thousands, have all you want." Perhaps some do not believe that, but I am just simple enough to believe it.
Help brother Brigham along, help brother Heber, brother Daniel, the Twelve, and every other good person. I am looking for the day, and it is close at hand, when we will have a most heavenly time, one that will be romantic, one with all kinds of ups and downs, which is what I call romantic, for it will occupy in full all the time, so that we may never become idle, nor sleepy, nor cease being active in the things of God, which will prevent dotage. ||
Mormon men believed that they "could have all the wives they wanted." Heber C. Kimball said that in the resurrection, he could have "thousands" of wives.
- Note that the Tanners make it appear as if the LDS men believe they can have as many wives as they want in this life, while Heber is speaking of the rewards granted the faithful in the next life, despite all they have had to sacrifice.
- Jesus said something similar:
- And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life (Matthew 19:29).
- Would the Tanners claim that Jesus "believed in having one hundred wives"?
- We also note that Heber's remark about "thousands" indicates that there are thousands of unsealed people available to be joined to the faithful. Kimball's remarks are clearly rhetorical, and intended to describe the greatness of the reward granted the faithful despite all their sacrifices.