How did the Saints wrestle with the revelation on plural marriage in Doctrine and Covenants 132 and how can reading their own accounts inform our faith, and personal testimony?

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2021 Episode Doctrine & Covenants 129-132 Part 2
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TIMECODE:

00:00 Part 2 - Sister Brittany Chapman Nash
00:07 Don’t need to have a testimony of plural marriage
02:01 Context to a revelation for Emma Smith
05:21 Emma rejected the revelation
08:44 Joseph F. Smith’s statement on this section
11:44 Preaching publicly about this revelation
14:09 Section 132 would have been different if delivered to body of the Saints
17:26 Provenance of Section 132
20:19 Joseph Smith restoring patterns from previous dispensations
22:30 Not a statement about what God thinks about marriage
27:25 Some motivations for marriage
30:34 Pattern of women (and men) agreeing to plural marriage
35:08 Having increase and Abrahamic sacrifice
38:35 Finding peace through reading first-person accounts
42:10 No social or religious repercussions for those who did not practice
46:00 Nephi killing Laban
49:40 Let’s Talk About: Polygamy by Brittany Chapman Nash
52:27 The Saints' reception of plural marriage
55:33 Martha Craig Cox writing about the principle
58:20 Consent is an eternal principle
1:00:00 Reflections on living plural marriage
1:03:21 The results of wrestling with difficult topics
1:04:33 Moving forward with faith in Jesus Christ
1:07:19 End of Part 2 - Sister Brittany Chapman Nash

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Thanks to the followHIM team:
Steve & Shannon Sorensen: Cofounder, Executive Producer, Sponsor
David & Verla Sorensen: Sponsors
Dr. Hank Smith: Co-host
John Bytheway: Co-host
David Perry: Producer
Kyle Nelson: Marketing, Sponsor
Lisa Spice: Client Relations, Editor, Show Notes
Will Stoughton: Video Editor
Krystal Roberts: Translation Team, English & French Transcripts, Website
Ariel Cuadra: Spanish Transcripts
Amelia Kabwika: Portuguese Transcripts
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