my memory of what I studied differs.Shawn Henry wrote: ↑September 18th, 2022, 3:22 pmBy polygamy's fruits you will know it.Atticus wrote: ↑September 18th, 2022, 3:08 pmJacob 2 also deals with more than unauthorized polygamy and whoredoms. There are other sins the Nephite men were guilty of that would lead them all, including the women, into captivity if they didn't repent.Shawn Henry wrote: ↑September 18th, 2022, 2:57 pmI know I'm inserting myself here into this conversation, but yes, they are. They are so synonymous that they are almost completely interchangeable. It's like saying getting hit in the head with a crowbar versus hit in the head with a baseball bat. Same end result, you're in a coma or your dead.
Where did it lead us? It got us kicked out of Nauvoo, out of the last stake of Zion, out of the promised land and out of the country entirely into Mexican territory under the oppressive rule of BY in a barren wasteland of a desert and the heavens closed and the Lord stopped adding revelations to the D&C. Sounds like captivity to me.
Joseph Smith had warned the saints to stop retaliating against the locals. Members were burning down barns, destroying property etc. Members were so arrogant about their "righteousness" that whoever didn't agree with them were looked down on like goyim. Pride, arrogance, and vengeance is what got them thrown out. It's like a california group that moved into a small town in Utah about 15 yrs ago. They tried to force themselves into the community and tried to take power. They eventually left because they were completely "unwanted". I am personally familiar with that story.
The history of the church is nothing like what has been taught or promulgated as 'truth'.