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Originally Posted by Rize
I was doing some reading on LDS history and came across a few things I didn't know before. I was reading about Joseph Smith's marriages and wives and saw that he married 11 women who were already married...
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I have not been able to find good info on this, other than at one point he approached the apostles and told them that he had to marry their wives or be sealed to them one of the two.. this caused a large split. After this as I understand it, the remaining apostles kept their marriages with their wives, and JS did not pursue a marriage simultaneusly with their wives. (as i seem to recall)
My conclusions are is either
1) it was a test much like how abraham was tested with his son
or
2) They were to be sealed to JS for after this life.
neither of which is strong enough evidence that God was not with JS, or evidence that he was acting selfishly.
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, often without the husbands consent.
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I have not been able to find good info on this. The sources i have been directed to by critics who tried using this same argument have either been 3rd or 4th hand accounts, or had no information on that exact subject and have left me to assume that the critics were pulling things from it from between the lines.
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He also married 8 girls under the age of 18?
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that practice was quite common in the past... and even further in the past marriage was usually between 13-15 years of age.
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Is this common knowledge, and how does the church justify him marrying women and girls who were already married?
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Most of this stuff the church has no need to justify any more than they have to justify Abrahams attempted killing of his only son.
I imagine most the folks in the church that start really researching its history or who have had discussions with critics and have remained in the church are aware of these things.