{"id":1349,"date":"2024-05-13T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2024-05-13T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:00:25","slug":"joseph-smith-caps-number-of-wives-at-the-number-of-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Smith Caps Number of Wives at the Number of Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Satura Apologia Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carthage Illinois \u2013 In a disappointing decision for many of the hard-core 19<sup>th<\/sup> century LDS polygamists, Joseph Smith announced that a man may have no more wives than he has Gods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is not right that man marries as many women as there be Gods.\u201d Joseph Smith said. \u201cBrigham Young is a shining role model to us all.\u201d Smith continued. \u201cHe only married fifty-six women. This leaves him at a least a couple million short of the number of Gods there are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked how many Gods there are, Brigham Young said there are more than can be counted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of this article\u2019s publication, many polygamists were looking at Islam as a feasible alternative. Unfortunately, Islam only allows nine wives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satura Apologia Today Carthage Illinois \u2013 In a disappointing decision for many of the hard-core 19th century LDS polygamists, Joseph Smith announced that a man may have no more wives than he has Gods. \u201cIt is not right that man marries as many women as there be Gods.\u201d Joseph Smith said. \u201cBrigham Young is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satura-apologia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}