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A FairMormon Response to Questions Asked in Swedish Fireside with Elder's Jensen and Turley

1: BoM translation—2: Polygamy and Polyandry—3: Polygamy forced?—4: Book of Abraham—5: "Lying for Lord"—6: Mark Hofmann—7: Blood atonement—8: First Vision—9: Sanitized history—10: "Not all truth is useful"—11: Angelic affidavits—12: Blacks and priesthood—13: Temple concerns—14: Evidence of Vikings—15: Adam-God—16: Kinderhook

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Question:
I have a difficult question.

• The time of Abraham, God reveals that.... it’s OK to have more than one wife....does the church believe that it was a teaching from God that he married women who had other men that were still alive, and even some apostles wives when they were away on missions?
• One woman said the child that she bore she didn’t know if it was the child of Joseph or the child of, in this case, Orson Hyde....So that indicates that it was definitely not a spiritual marriage.

Short Answer:

• Question: Did Joseph marry women who were already married to others?
  Answer: Yes. There is no evidence these marriages were consummated. They were likely to bind families together to Joseph.
  
• Question: Was Joseph sealed to apostles' wives?
  Answer: Yes xxx
  
• Question: Did Joseph marry the wives of men on missions? Answer: Yes, in one case. No in all the others.
• Question: Did a woman say she did not know if Joseph or Orson Hyde was the father of a child?
  Answer: Unlikely