Are there any Mormons who have only one spouse? Is that allowed?
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i doubt that the relegions or sects allowing polygamy insist that one have to be polygamous. islam allow 4 wives but even it never says that it is must to have four wives. none of my muslim friends have more than one spouse though there are many who do. i never heard that those monogamous muslims are declare false muslims for it.
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IF Jesus was married, he would have only had one wife.  He was supposed to be Jewish, not Mormon.
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I am a mormon. And have answered your qwestions before. All im saying are facts. Baptisms for the dead is an ordinance in the temple. People are baptized in place of one who has passed away. The Aaronic and Melchezedick (dont know how to spell it) priesthood. We do not do evil things. Families are sealed for time and all eternity in the temple. You can contact the Mormon missionaries and ask questions\nTemples are houses of the Lord, the most sacred structures on the earth. \nAnciently, the Lord directed Solomon to build a temple (1 Chronicles 28:1–6). After Jesus Christ restored His Church through Joseph Smith, He again directed that temples be built. \n\nIn temples, Church members participate in ordinances designed to unite their families together forever and help them return to God. This next part is from www.mormon.org\n\nIn the temple, members: \n\nLearn eternal truths. \nReceive sacred ordinances, including those that bind husband and wife together for eternity, as well as join children and parents (Malachi 4:5–6). \nProvide ordinances such as baptism for those who have died without the opportunity to receive the gospel of Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:29); 1 Peter 4:6) \n\nThis part is more on baptisms for the dead.\nMany people have died without receiving baptism and other ordinances that Jesus Christ taught were necessary to enter the kingdom of God (John 3:5). Because Heavenly Father wants all His children to have the opportunity to return to Him, He has provided a way for those who have died without these ordinances to receive them. \nIn holy temples, members of the Church can perform these ordinances on behalf of their ancestors who have died. \n\nThis makes it possible for those who have not received these ordinances to accept them, if they choose, and return to live one day with our Heavenly Father. \n\nThis part is on marraige and eternal marraige.\nWhen a man and woman are married in a temple, their family can be together forever. This is a common goal of Latter-day Saints. However, this is not always possible. One of the marriage partners may not be a member of the Church or may not be prepared to go to the temple. Some people never have the opportunity to marry. \nChurch members who have been divorced, who have never married, or who have been married outside the temple can participate in the ordinances of the gospel and enjoy opportunities for Church service. \n\nThe knowledge that a family can be together forever helps strengthen families—not only those who have been bound together through temple ordinances, but also those who hope to realize that blessing in the future. \n\nThe Savior promised that certain sacred acts performed in this life would be effective in the world to come. Consider His words to Peter: “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Matthew 16:19). \nWhen a marriage is performed by the proper authority, in the holy temple, it can last through eternity, rather than “till death do you part.” \n\nYour marriage and family do not need to end at death. This promise can give you a sense of eternal belonging and eternal commitment.
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Have you ever heard of polygamy involving more than one husband? I like it about as much as the idea of a threesome with two women. Don't men have enough problems with just one wife?
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Paul writes to Timothy about overseers and deacons that, among other things, they should be the husbands of one wife. (I Timothy 3:2, 12) These are people who are supposed to be an example to the flock, so it is especially important that they really do things by the Book.\n\nFor that matter, while back in Old Testament times the patriarchs did often have more than one wife, God instructed the kings of Israel (whether they obeyed Him is another matter, but still...) that they were not to have multiple wives. This is so their hearts would not be led astray. (Deuteronomy 17:17)\n\nBut as far as we 'ordinary people' are concerned, in Matthew 19:3-6, Jesus takes a very strict view of Genesis 2:24, basically indicating that we should live strictly by the following: leave father and mother, cleave to wife, become one flesh. In this instance, He interprets that to mean no divorce (because that is the matter under discussion). Using the same kind of thinking, it would also mean having only one spouse of the opposite sex.
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last i checked it is mainly mormon. also a large polygamy population.  I think mexicans are the least of the problem
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Just who told you it is morally wrong to love two people at the same time? It is NOT immoral at all. Polygamy is alive and well and I think the civil laws against it should be repealed. \n\nIf you want to look at it Biblically, multi-marriages were very common in the Old Testament and although not directly spoken of in the New Testament it is still there.\n\nThe plural marriages usually spoken of in Utah concerning the Mormon Church is not a good kind of polygamy because it is forced upon the woman. Standard or Christian polygamy is perfectly good and is not forced upon anyone.\n\nIf the two men have no problems with both having and loving you then you should pursue it. \n\nRead more about it through the web sites below if you wish.
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I am mormon, and most of my relatives on my mothers side are catholic. We get along great, and share quite a bit in common. As with any church, the LDS (mormon) church suggests that you marry within your own faith. It just seems to make things a lot easier for both people involved. \n\nSo does the Mormon church forbid it? No, but the Church encourages its members to marry within the Church. This is sound advice in general, for the more a married couple have in common, the more likely their marriage will be successful. When a couple disagrees on basic core values and beliefs, it can lead to additional stress, conflicts, and disappointment. The issue of how kids are raised can be especially problematic. Naturally, the Church hopes they will be raised LDS. We believe that the Lord wants children to be raised with the truth of the Gospel. \nSome of the greatest blessings of the Gospel are available to married couples who both live the Gospel and are willing to receive sacred covenants made in temples. Temple marriage, for example, offers the potential to be married throughout eternity and to enjoy the blessings of family life in the presence of God. Thus, we hope that all our young people will choose to be married in the temple to a spouse who is committed to Christ and is willing to live life according to the Gospel.
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That has nothing to do with Orthodoxy, but only a person who is a Cohen (that is, a descendant of Aaron) cannot marry a divorcee. Anyone else can.
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He never approved of many wives.\n\nThe Bible says that God’s original intention was for one man to be married to only one woman, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). Mankind quickly perverted the concept of marriage to allow for multiple wives (Genesis 4:19). The Bible does not specifically condemn the practice of polygamy until the New Testament (1 Timothy 3:2), but that does not mean God approved of polygamy before.\n\n \n\nWe see in Deuteronomy 17:14-20, that the kings were not supposed to have multiple wives. Ultimately the case can be made from Genesis 2:23-24, 1 Timothy 3:2,12 and Titus 1:6 that nobody should have multiple wives. Although the New Testament passages relate to elders and deacons we can apply it to all Christians men because these are worthy standards for all men and we should all seek to be Holy as God is Holy (1 Peter 1:16), and if these standards are holy for elders and deacons then they are holy for all.\n\n \n\nUltimately, everyone who had more than one wife was in sin and against God's will. However, God does not constantly admonish us for all sins in the same way. Everyone sins every day and sometimes we do not see the immediate response in relation to that sin. I can speed and not have a direct chastising from God, although I would certainly have conviction. In the same manner I can commit other sins and not feel the response of God, however I should always know that God hates sin and that as a Christian I know that Jesus bore my sins on the cross and I do not want to multiply those sins. I can also sin and see that God is responding immediately to cause me to stop my rebellion, repent and return to Him. It is God's decision how and when He admonishes His children and those who are unsaved.
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as a Mormon i have heard many things over the years and just let people know that i believe that they are wrong, and that they believe i am wrong.  i respect that everyone has their own opinions and i have mine.  people will also make fun of and challenge what is different from their beliefs.  one big thing that we get a lot is that we have more than one wife.  which is not true.  at one point in time we did, but even during that time only 2-5% were apart of polygamy.  another thing i hear a lot is that we re not Christians.  my response is yes we are.  i believe in Christ as my savior and brother to help me get through this life.  i use his teachings in the bible to guide me in what i say act and do.  if this is not a christian than i do not know what is.  getting into Joseph smith is sometimes hard to get  into with those who do not believe, but i just say i believe that he restored Christ church on earth and that he did see god and his son Jesus Christ.  people will either leave you alone or talk bad more.  hope that this helps.
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I believe that it is very unnatural to only be with one person. It is human nature to want to spread our seed. However, if you have decided to commit yourself to one person you must be true to them and only them. If you don't think it would be possible for you participate in a monogamous relationship, maybe you need to find another person that shares your same ideas and values on relationships.
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Actually Mormons have not stopped polygamy at all.  They simply have hidden it among certain members.  I have studied Mormons and many other religions for decades and know a great deal about them.  More than most Mormons even know.  They publicly denounce polygamy and when recruiting will tell people that ask about it, that no they dont believe it and will refer to Adam having one wife Eve.  However when a Mormon has been in the organization long enough they will say that polygamy is in their belief and they should be like Abraham having many wives.  However they encourage not practicing it to not draw attention by the law.  Yet even today there are those known as the hard core Mormons that live in communes in Utah that do practice polygamy openly.  The church spends a great deal of effort to hide these people as they are considered the "true believers".\n\nYears ago at one of their get togethers there was a Mormon that showed up traveling around.  He had the classic 1800s look of an Omish type person with his beard and no mustache.  I knew I struck pay dirt and went to meet him.  The Mormon bishop and elders knowing who I was tried to distract me but I eventually got to him.  He had no idea who I was and I potrayed myself as a fellow Mormon.  I said all the keywords stating my dad had went through temple marriage ceremonies.  I told him I hope to wear the sacred robe and speak the oaths of secrecy too.  The guy began to speak of how he felt that modern Mormons were gutless and not going to have their own planet like Jehovah.  He then told me about his multiple wives in Utah.  He was overall disgusted that Mormonism had sold out and not practicing what Joseph and Brigham had taught.\n\nSo yes they do believe in this heavily just have a hard time practicing it in the US.  There is a movie that is forbidden for all Mormons to watch but is a tremendous movie called "the godmakers".  It is good expose on them made by former Mormons.  \n\nI have talked with hundreds of Mormons in my time and it has always amazed me about them.  Averagely they are some of the most intelligent and nice people you will ever meet.  I have always just been blown away with the history of that religion and it obvious contradictory beliefs that these good people can stay in it.  It is quite a shame.\n\nI would not worry about these kids preaching out there.  I have never had a problem with anyone of any belief speaking their mind.  No matter how "wrong" I might feel they are, I enjoy hearing people's views.  I like knowing how people came to their life's conclusions.  What draws them to things.
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Many people outside of the Judea-Christian faith believe in polyamory.  To a dgree it makes sense.  Can you have one soulmate?  Probably not, considering we seem to find our coulmates in the ame town as our w/o ever travelling to.... say.... China, where we could meet another.\nCan you love more than one person?  ABSOLUTELY.  Can you CHOOSE more than one person?  Most likely not.\nRemember, the grass is always greener on the other side.  If you are happy where you are, stop thinking about how happy you coul be, and just live life.
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Just one thing?\n\nWell, aside from the basis of the Religion itself, the "vision" by Joseph Smith that started it all, it would definitley be the view on polygamy they held for so long, and then suddenly dropped.\n\nOh yea, the poster above me has another good one.
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I was married to a mormon once, and her daddy was a bishop.  For her sake I tried to validate mormonism, but Joseph Smith was a lying con artist who victimized the weak and ignorant.  This is based on the mormons version of the mormon history.\n\nBeyond that, their doctrine is a perversion of Biblical truth on almost every point of their doctrine.
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Peace on you …. Thank you for asking about my religion.\n1. Definition of Polygamy\nPolygamy means a system of marriage whereby one person has more than one\nspouse. Polygamy can be of two types. One is polygyny where a man marries\nmore than one woman, and the other is polyandry, where a woman marries\nmore than one man. In Islam, limited polygyny is permitted; whereas polyandry\nis completely prohibited.\nNow coming to the original question, why is a man allowed to have more than\none wife?\n2. The Qur’an is the only religious scripture in the world that says,\n“marry only one”.\nThe Qur’an is the only religious book, on the face of this earth, that contains the\nphrase ‘marry only one’. There is no other religious book that instructs men to\nhave only one wife. In none of the other religious scriptures, whether it be the\nVedas, the Ramayan, the Mahabharat, the Geeta, the Talmud or the Bible does\none find a restriction on the number of wives. According to these scriptures one\ncan marry as many as one wishes. It was only later, that the Hindu priests and\nthe Christian Church restricted the number of wives to one.\nMany Hindu religious personalities, according to their scriptures, had multiple\nwives. King Dashrat, the father of Rama, had more than one wife. Krishna had\nseveral wives.\nIn earlier times, Christian men were permitted as many wives as they wished,\nsince the Bible puts no restriction on the number of wives. It was only a few\ncenturies ago that the Church restricted the number of wives to one.\nPolygyny is permitted in Judaism. According to Talmudic law, Abraham had\nthree wives, and Solomon had hundreds of wives. The practice of polygyny\ncontinued till Rabbi Gershom ben Yehudah (960 C.E to 1030 C.E) issued an\nedict against it. The Jewish Sephardic communities living in Muslim countries\ncontinued the practice till as late as 1950, until an Act of the Chief Rabbinate of\nIsrael extended the ban on marrying more than one wife.\n(*Interesting Note:- As per the 1975 census of India Hindus are more\npolygynous than Muslims. The report of the ‘Committee of The Status of\nWoman in Islam’, published in 1975 mentions on page numbers 66 and 67 that\nthe percentage of polygamous marriages between the years 1951 and 1961\nwas 5.06% among the Hindus and only 4.31% among the Muslims. According\nto Indian law only Muslim men are permitted to have more than one wife. It is\nillegal for any non-Muslim in India to have more than one wife. Despite it being\nillegal, Hindus have more multiple wives as compared to Muslims. Earlier, there\nwas no restriction even on Hindu men with respect to the number of wives\nallowed. It was only in 1954, when the Hindu Marriage Act was passed that it\nbecame illegal for a Hindu to have more than one wife. At present it is the Indian\nLaw that restricts a Hindu man from having more than one wife and not the\nHindu scriptures.)\nLet us now analyse why Islam allows a man to have more than one wife.\n3. Qur’an permits limited polygyny\nAs I mentioned earlier, Qur’an is the only religious book on the face of the earth\nthat says ‘marry only one’. The context of this phrase is the following verse from\nSurah Nisa of the Glorious Qur’an:\n“Marry women of your choice, two, or three, or four; but if ye fear that\nye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one.”\n[Al-Qur’an 4:3]\nBefore the Qur’an was revealed, there was no upper limit for polygyny and\nmany men had scores of wives, some even hundreds. Islam put an upper limit\nof four wives. Islam gives a man permission to marry two, three or four women,\nonly on the condition that he deals justly with them.\nIn the same chapter i.e. Surah Nisa verse 129 says:\n“Ye are never able to be fair and just as between women....”\n[Al-Qur’an 4:129]\nTherefore polygyny is not a rule but an exception. Many people are under the\nmisconception that it is compulsory for a Muslim man to have more than one