Nick Smith

@WhatisCN @BonifaceOption @Brian_Sauve @dalepartridge @haymes_joshua @rightresponsem

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@jholder76 When I play COD with my 2 sons it gets real.

Joel probably thinks Call of Duty is real.

@adamstr36707328 @RepJimmyGomez 😂

@RepJimmyGomez You don’t have to sell me anymore on it!

48 hours. No sleep. Just the crushing weight of what the Republicans did and the millions of people who will be impacted.

@AdamPage85 For me, the problem is that I really don’t know. But that’s the big problem. If we are convictionally confessional I should be able to say that I know without a doubt that NAMB is free of egalitarianism.

@DennyBurk I interview all candidates for membership where I pastor. Do y’all have a set of questions that you use? If so, could I possibly get them from you?

At our church, pastors interview candidates for membership. One of our primary responsibilities is looking for evidence of regeneration. Under no circumstances would we ever recognize as a Christian someone who denies the bodily resurrection. No chance. Never. What kind of church would you have if you began recognizing resurrection-deniers as Christians? Eventually, you would have an apostate church.

@rightresponsem What did you do this time?

If you’re a heterosexual white male… and you’re excommunicated from a Protestant church in 2025… there’s a 99% chance it was because you’re actually a real Christian.

@laurel_prolife I was rocking sideburns

I got married at 19. We are going on 25 years this December. I bet that woman whining about a 20yr old MAN getting married also thinks 10yr old kids are mature enough to ‘change gender.’

@jholder76 That’s hilarious 😆

Best one yet 😂😂

@paytonmcnabb_ @SecretService That’s so cool!

The newest @SecretService special agent DJ🥹🥹🥹

Yes please

@AdamPage85 Mark and avoid

Thabiti’s rec list = my 🚩 list.

The SBC probably should have passed the Law Amendment.

@ScottK @tscottme @badtothebone124 This will help you understand. merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cha…

@NicholasOSmith @tscottme @badtothebone124 No. Read the Manifesto. It was included in my post. Or, are you just skimming what I post and not giving what I post the proper attention because you don't really give a crap?

Obviously false prophet, conman.

@CTmagazine 😂

The Bible does not give us a refugee policy. But it tells us we belong to a refugee family. christianitytoday.com/2025/01/jesus-…

@ScottK @tscottme @badtothebone124 If polygamy (plural marriage) was practiced at one time but now is not, is that not a change in doctrine?

@NicholasOSmith @tscottme @badtothebone124 Doctrine was never changed. The same with the Law of Consecration in connection with The United Order. Neither Plural Marriage or The United Order are practiced at this time.

@ScottK @tscottme @badtothebone124 I don’t think it’s a conspiracy. Just doctrine that is subjective to new “visions” from Mormon presidents. Changing doctrine for changing times. Not absolute. That was the discussion until you diverted.

@NicholasOSmith @tscottme @badtothebone124 What, that the practice of Plural Marriage was stopped so The Church and the mission that God the Eternal Father gave it? Ooooh, such a conspiracy!

@ScottK @tscottme @badtothebone124 Maybe not. 😂 But you still didn’t address anything.

@NicholasOSmith @tscottme @badtothebone124 Well, if you aren't going to show us all of your amazing work, then perhaps it's not worth reading, huh?

@ScottK @tscottme @badtothebone124 Sure. 😉. Maybe a prophet can find it.

@NicholasOSmith @tscottme @badtothebone124 I said that because I looked all over for any papers you wrote on the subject and found *nothing*. Literally *nothing*.

@ScottK @tscottme @badtothebone124 There it is. Cult arguments start falling so instead of engaging revert to insults. 😉 typical and expected. I got you.

@NicholasOSmith @tscottme @badtothebone124 "Written papers on it".

@ScottK @tscottme @badtothebone124 I read it. Read it before. Written papers on it. So LDS practice and doctrine changes as a result of passed laws and new revelation from LDS presidents. That’s not absolute but subjective. Changing truth for changing times.

The US Government was, yet again, afraid of the presumed and assumed "voting block" power that The Saints held in the Utah Territory and was threatening to withold the Statehood of the Territory if The Saints didn't end the practice of Plural Marriage. The Government felt that, by passing the Edmunds Act of 1882, that they could exercize further control over The Saints before Statehood was granted. The Edmunds Act, also known as the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act of 1882,[1] is a United States federal statute, signed into law on March 23, 1882 by President Chester A. Arthur, declaring polygamy a felony in federal territories, punishable by "a fine of not more than five hundred dollars and by imprisonment for a term of not more than five years".[2] The act is named for U.S. Senator George F. Edmunds of Vermont. The Edmunds Act also prohibited "bigamous" or "unlawful cohabitation" (a misdemeanor),[3] thus removing the need to prove that actual marriages had occurred.[1] The act not only reinforced the 1862 Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act but also made the offense of unlawful cohabitation much easier to prove than polygamy misdemeanor and made it illegal for polygamists or cohabitants to vote, hold public office, or serve on juries in federal territories. ___________________________________________________________ Official Declaration 1 The Bible and the Book of Mormon teach that monogamy is God’s standard for marriage unless He declares otherwise (see 2 Samuel 12:7–8 and Jacob 2:27, 30). Following a revelation to Joseph Smith, the practice of plural marriage was instituted among Church members in the early 1840s (see section 132). From the 1860s to the 1880s, the United States government passed laws to make this religious practice illegal. These laws were eventually upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. After receiving revelation, President Wilford Woodruff issued the following Manifesto, which was accepted by the Church as authoritative and binding on October 6, 1890. This led to the end of the practice of plural marriage in the Church. To Whom It May Concern: Press dispatches having been sent for political purposes, from Salt Lake City, which have been widely published, to the effect that the Utah Commission, in their recent report to the Secretary of the Interior, allege that plural marriages are still being solemnized and that forty or more such marriages have been contracted in Utah since last June or during the past year, also that in public discourses the leaders of the Church have taught, encouraged and urged the continuance of the practice of polygamy— I, therefore, as President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, do hereby, in the most solemn manner, declare that these charges are false. We are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice, and I deny that either forty or any other number of plural marriages have during that period been solemnized in our Temples or in any other place in the Territory. One case has been reported, in which the parties allege that the marriage was performed in the Endowment House, in Salt Lake City, in the Spring of 1889, but I have not been able to learn who performed the ceremony; whatever was done in this matter was without my knowledge. In consequence of this alleged occurrence the Endowment House was, by my instructions, taken down without delay. Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriages, which laws have been pronounced constitutional by the court of last resort, I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws, and to use my influence with the members of the Church over which I preside to have them do likewise. There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculcate or encourage polygamy; and when any Elder of the Church has used language which appeared to convey any such teaching, he has been promptly reproved. And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land. Wilford Woodruff President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. President Lorenzo Snow offered the following: “I move that, recognizing Wilford Woodruff as the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the only man on the earth at the present time who holds the keys of the sealing ordinances, we consider him fully authorized by virtue of his position to issue the Manifesto which has been read in our hearing, and which is dated September 24th, 1890, and that as a Church in General Conference assembled, we accept his declaration concerning plural marriages as authoritative and binding.” Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6, 1890. ____________________________________________________________ Excerpts from Three Addresses by President Wilford Woodruff Regarding the Manifesto The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as President of this Church to lead you astray. It is not in the programme. It is not in the mind of God. If I were to attempt that, the Lord would remove me out of my place, and so He will any other man who attempts to lead the children of men astray from the oracles of God and from their duty. (Sixty-first Semiannual General Conference of the Church, Monday, October 6, 1890, Salt Lake City, Utah. Reported in Deseret Evening News, October 11, 1890, p. 2.) It matters not who lives or who dies, or who is called to lead this Church, they have got to lead it by the inspiration of Almighty God. If they do not do it that way, they cannot do it at all. …I have had some revelations of late, and very important ones to me, and I will tell you what the Lord has said to me. Let me bring your minds to what is termed the manifesto. …The Lord has told me to ask the Latter-day Saints a question, and He also told me that if they would listen to what I said to them and answer the question put to them, by the Spirit and power of God, they would all answer alike, and they would all believe alike with regard to this matter.The question is this: Which is the wisest course for the Latter-day Saints to pursue—to continue to attempt to practice plural marriage, with the laws of the nation against it and the opposition of sixty millions of people, and at the cost of the confiscation and loss of all the Temples, and the stopping of all the ordinances therein, both for the living and the dead, and the imprisonment of the First Presidency and Twelve and the heads of families in the Church, and the confiscation of personal property of the people (all of which of themselves would stop the practice); or, after doing and suffering what we have through our adherence to this principle to cease the practice and submit to the law, and through doing so leave the Prophets, Apostles and fathers at home, so that they can instruct the people and attend to the duties of the Church, and also leave the Temples in the hands of the Saints, so that they can attend to the ordinances of the Gospel, both for the living and the dead?The Lord showed me by vision and revelation exactly what would take place if we did not stop this practice. If we had not stopped it, you would have had no use for … any of the men in this temple at Logan; for all ordinances would be stopped throughout the land of Zion. Confusion would reign throughout Israel, and many men would be made prisoners. This trouble would have come upon the whole Church, and we should have been compelled to stop the practice. Now, the question is, whether it should be stopped in this manner, or in the way the Lord has manifested to us, and leave our Prophets and Apostles and fathers free men, and the temples in the hands of the people, so that the dead may be redeemed. A large number has already been delivered from the prison house in the spirit world by this people, and shall the work go on or stop? This is the question I lay before the Latter-day Saints. You have to judge for yourselves. I want you to answer it for yourselves. I shall not answer it; but I say to you that that is exactly the condition we as a people would have been in had we not taken the course we have.… I saw exactly what would come to pass if there was not something done. I have had this spirit upon me for a long time. But I want to say this: I should have let all the temples go out of our hands; I should have gone to prison myself, and let every other man go there, had not the God of heaven commanded me to do what I did do; and when the hour came that I was commanded to do that, it was all clear to me. I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write. …I leave this with you, for you to contemplate and consider. The Lord is at work with us. (Cache Stake Conference, Logan, Utah, Sunday, November 1, 1891. Reported in Deseret Weekly, November 14, 1891.) Now I will tell you what was manifested to me and what the Son of God performed in this thing. … All these things would have come to pass, as God Almighty lives, had not that Manifesto been given. Therefore, the Son of God felt disposed to have that thing presented to the Church and to the world for purposes in his own mind. The Lord had decreed the establishment of Zion. He had decreed the finishing of this temple. He had decreed that the salvation of the living and the dead should be given in these valleys of the mountains. And Almighty God decreed that the Devil should not thwart it. If you can understand that, that is a key to it. (From a discourse at the sixth session of the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple, April 1893. Typescript of Dedicatory Services, Archives, Church Historical Department, Salt Lake City, Utah.) The Edmunds–Tucker Act of 1887 was an Act of Congress that restricted some practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and disincorporated the LDS Church. An amendment to the earlier Edmunds Act, it was passed in response to the dispute between the United States Congress and the LDS Church regarding polygamy. The act was found at 48 U.S.C. § 1480, with the full text of the law published at 24 Stat. 635. In 1978, the act was repealed by Public Law 95-584, the full text of which was published at 92 Stat. 2483. [1][2] The act was named after its congressional sponsors, Senator George F. Edmunds of Vermont and Congressman John Randolph Tucker of Virginia. You asked, I Provided -- SK