I don’t think that my sentence does convey that meaning really.

#62: I don’t understand the eternities well enough to be confident about any of this, so I hold to the faith that God will straighten everything out in the end in a way that finally will make sense and bring happiness to all involved.

Amen, Ray.

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I don’t advocate the mortal practice of polygamy because of the obvious potential for problems. But I don’t find the mere concept abhorrent in the slightest. If you don’t want your heaven like that, fine, but keep us out of it.

Who is the “us” to which you refer? This rather engaging blog would be less so if all of the posts read “me, too”; “me, too”; “me, too”; etc. I find the exchange of sincere and thoughtful ideas to be a wonderful thing (even when people of good will disagree), and believe such a dialogue to be an essential element of the quest for wisdom that is one of the callings of mortality.

I wouldn’t try (and wasn’t trying) to dictate eternal terms for anyone, Seth. I was merely voicing my opinion, as are you.

If you feel good about polygamy, or if you even desire such an arrangement in the hereafter, that is your right. I much prefer the beautiful monogamy celebrated so exquisitely by the modern LDS Church.

The Spirit impresses upon my mind that PM had been crucial/necessary/pivotal to the Restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Thank you very much for that story, Laura. I think this is an excellent summation.

The above is an excellent article on the subject of polygyny.

“Feelings” are one thing, and Holy Writ are another. To wit:

Isaiah 55:9
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

And I don’t think your personal scruples and feelings are to be taken as a guide for anyone’s relationship but your own.

If you don’t like the practice, fine. But don’t go around telling the rest of us how we are obligated to spend our eternities. If a women loses a husband to death and remarries, who are you to force her to choose between the two just to meet up with your preconceptions of a happy family?

This is a denial of love and the human heart at the most basic level.

I do not believe that polygamy will be forced upon the unwilling in the hereafter. But I also believe it will exist. And I believe it should exist.

If you do not wish to embrace the idea, then you need not do so. But nobody gave you the right to dictate eternal terms for the rest of us.

I don’t advocate the mortal practice of polygamy because of the obvious potential for problems. But I don’t find the mere concept abhorrent in the slightest. If you don’t want your heaven like that, fine, but keep us out of it.