Joseph Smith's Uncanonized Revelations! Pt.1 w/Stephen Smoot & Brian Passantino 

Great references! Thanks, Joshua!

This was a fun one. We don't get too caught up in the weeds, but hopefully, it'll lead to more conversation on the subject. Their book is great - pretty concise with a number of interesting revelations. We talked about a couple of them in part 2.

We talk about a couple of them in part 2, but their book is much more comprehensive. Of course, most of them can be found in the Joseph Smith Papers as well for anyone who doesn't want to buy the book.

I understand your sentiment. However, this is not correct. Joseph personally commissioned and oversaw the publication of the Lectures on Faith in 1834-35 (9 years before his death). It's understood by historians that Sydney Rigdon and others of the school of the prophets wrote most of the content of the lectures, with Joseph likely writing one of them, personally. The specific lecture that later became misunderstood as possibly teaching some form of the trinity was lecture 5. Ironically, this is the very lecture that was supposedly written by Joseph himself. Of course, with a more careful study of the lecture and Joseph’s own teachings on the matter, it becomes more clear that the lecture isn't teaching the trinity at all. Much has been said on this subject by scholars/historians. I also covered each of the 7 lectures on this channel in case you're interested.

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Yes. Brigham started polygamy because he was obsessed with money, power and s*×. The voice of innocence is what came from Joseph and that can be found in the papers as well

@@StompMom5 Umm no, actually God the Father practices polygamy and so does his Father and his.........

​@@Rudyard_StriplingYeah....Brigham Young made that up too along with blood atonement, the priesthood ban and Adam God theory. No where in scripture has it ever said that, only Brigham said it. But most members made him their God so good for you

​@@StompMom5It's honestly a bit of a shame to see you fall so low as to deny polygamy and slander Brigham Young like that. Michelle Stone is a liar. There’s too much data from too many parties from Joseph’s inner circle and antagonists that confirm Joseph Smith practiced polygamy and D&C 132 was read to the Nauvoo Council. There are affidavits made by William Law, Jane Law, and Austin Cowles that describe and corroborate key details of D&C 132 on May 4, 1844, published in the Nauvoo Expositor on June 7, 1844. Among the things about D&C 132 verified, William Law recalled it said “this is the law” and to “enter into my law.” matching D&C 132:32-34. Jane Law recalled that it authorized some men to have up to “the number of ten” wives, and that women who did not allow their husbands to have more than one wife would “be under transgression before God” matching D&C 132:61-65. Austin Cowles recalled that the revelation Hyrum Smith read to the High Council taught sealing up to Eternal Life against all sins except the shedding of innocent blood (D&C 132:26) and that David and Solomon had many wives yet in this they sinned not save in the matter of Uriah (D&C 132:38-39). In response to the Expositor Affidavits, both Joseph and Hyrum in the Nauvoo city council confirmed that these statements were not fabrications out of nothing, that indeed there was an authentic revelation received and read to the Nauvoo High Council. They even admitted that it was about polygamy, but they said it was just about polygamy in former days and/or in the afterlife. These minutes were published in the Nauvoo Neighbor on June 19, 1844. William Clayton recorded in his journal that he wrote the original revelation on July 12, 1843 as it was dictated to him by the Prophet: “This A.M, I wrote a Revelation consisting of 10 pages on the order of the priesthood, showing the designs in Moses, Abraham, David and Solomon having many wives and concubines &c. After it was wrote Presidents Joseph and Hyrum presented it and read it to E[mma] who said she did not believe a word of it and appeared very rebellious” Which Joseph Smith’s own journal also says “Wednesday July 12 [1843] Receivd a Revelation in the office in presence of Hyrum & Wm. Clayton.” (Joseph Smith Papers: Journals Volume 3, May 1843-June 1844 page 57) Then one or two days later, Newell K. Whitney requested permission to have a copy made. Joseph C. Kingsbury described the copying process in 1886: ”Bishop Newel K. Whitney handed me the Revelation… the day [after] it was written or the day following and stating what it was asked me to make a copy of it. I did so, and then read my copy of it to Bishop Whitney, who compared it with the original to which he held in his hand while I read to him. When I had finished reading, Bishop Whitney pronounced the copy correct and Hyrum Smith came into the room at the time to fetch the original. Bishop Whitney handed it to him. I will also state that this copy, as also the original are identically the same as published in the present edition [1876] of the Book of Doctrine and Covenants.” Clayton later affirmed that the Kingsbury manuscript was an exact copy: “Towards evening Bishop Newel K. Whitney asked Joseph if he had any objections to his taking a copy of the revelation; Joseph replied that he had not, and handed it to him. It was carefully copied the following day by Joseph C. Kingsbury . . . The copy made by Joseph C. Kingsbury is a true and correct copy of the original in every respect. The copy was carefully preserved by Bishop Whitney.” (Andrew Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” Historical Record 6 (July 1887): 226.) Sidney Rigdon, who was excommunicated from the Church and tried to start his own sect and claiming to be the rightful successor of Joseph Smith, knew very well that Joseph and Hyrum practiced because after the Smith's deaths Sidney Rigdon made statements in his own Newspaper called the Latter Day Saints Messenger & Advocate where he said that they both died because of it, which you can look up yourself. There is also Mary Fielding Smith, the wife of Hyrum Smith, who had she not accepted and entered into plural marriage while Hyrum was alive and had not been taught the principle of sealings for eternity then she certainly would not have agreed to be sealed to Heber C. Kimball and she would not have gone west with the polygamous Brighamites. Even people who were in the RLDS, whose claim of being the true Church was dependent on whether Joseph practiced polygamy or not, even admitted it was practiced. In a meeting of the RLDS First Presidency on May 1, 1865 “The Question arose as to whether Joseph the Martyr taught the Doctrine of polygamy. President [William] Marks said Brother Hyrum came to his place once and told him he did not believe in it and he was going to see Joseph about it and if he had a revelation on the subject he would believe it, and after that Hyrum read a revelation on it in the High Council and He Marks felt it was not true but he saw the High Council received it.” (RLDS First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve meeting, 1 May 1865, RLDS Archives) In 1883, RLDS apostle Zenos Gurley Jr. interviewed Leonard Soby, who confirmed that the Utah affidavits were truthful and also signed an affidavit confirming that D&C 132 was the same revelation that he heard Hyrum Smith read. Zenos Gurley Jr. resigned his apostleship in the RLDS Church in response to Soby’s testimony. Let’s also not forget that all of the women have said they were sealed to Joseph Smith, which you can read about in Brian Hale’s books. You can even see the deeds of the property he gave to some of his wives on the Joseph Smith Papers. The data is overwhelming and to deny it is to deny reality and established historical facts. Your evidence is complete garbage that blatantly manipulates, or more you blatantly or ignorantly lie, about what was said and done to force a false claim that Joseph Smith never practiced polygamy. It's anti historical and only a pseudo intellectual person would make this claim, and I mean that as harshly as possible.