“Expressions from the People,” Deseret News, 14 April 1885; “The abandonment of polygamy, that is considered by some to be so easy of accomplishment, is more untenable even than fighting. However much the people might desire to do this, they could not without yielding every other principle, for it is the very key stone of our faith, and is so closely interwoven into every-thing that pertains to our religion, that to tear it asunder and cast it away would involve the entire structure.”
Acts 17:26-28a; “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: 28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being…”
Why is polygamy the keystone of the Mormon religion?
Why isn’t Jesus the keystone?
If polygamy was so important to salvation then why did Smith hide it for over a decade and why did he lie about it? (Journal of Discourses 20:29)
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