Heber C Kimball
How many wives does God the Father have? According to Mormon doctrine, everyone was conceived by a spiritual mother(goddess) and father(god) in heaven before coming to earth. We pre-existed as spirit beings in heaven before receiving a physical body on this planet. Every person is supposed to have had the same "heavenly father". This heavenly father is supposedly confined to one place in a physical body of an exalted man. Early Mormon leaders claimed that God the father had a number of wives. Here are the words of Heber C. Kimball: "In the spirit world there is an increase of males and females, there are millions of them, and if I am faithful all the time, and continue right along with brother Brigham, we will go to brother Joseph and say, 'Here we are brother Joseph; we are here ourselves are we not, with none of the property we possessed in our probationary state, not even the rings on our fingers?' He will say to us, 'Come along, my boys, we will give you a good suit of clothes. Where are your wives?' 'They are back yonder; they would not follow us.' 'Never mind,' says Joseph, 'here are thousands, have all you want.' Perhaps some do not believe that, but I am just simple enough to believe it" (Journal of Discourses 4:209).
It is incomprehensible how all people on earth could be a spirit child of one father God and his wives. It sounds logistically impossible. Today there are over 7 billion people on the earth. How many wives would it take to bear 7 billion spirit beings? Kimball believed that Joseph would tell him that thousands of wives would be available. Let's suppose that God the Father had 7 thousand wives. Each wife would need to bear 1 million spirit children for there to be 7 billion people on an earth. Kimball claimed that there were millions of males and females in the spirit world. Or, let's suppose God the Father had 7 million wives. Each wife would have to bear 1 thousand spirit children to reach the 7 billion people mark. God the Father would have to be extremely busy with his wives. I am not going to do the math on that!
Mormon doctrine creates some serious logistical problems. It doesn't seem possible or even logical. Who would want to be the millionth wife? What kind of care would the thousandth child receive? This is much different than Genesis 2:24: "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." It doesn't say a thousand flesh or a million flesh. It says one man and one woman should become one flesh. Jesus spoke of the heavenly marriage mistake in Matthew 22:29&30: "Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven." I think we can safely say that the God of the Bible is not the Mormon god with his many wives.
It is incomprehensible how all people on earth could be a spirit child of one father God and his wives. It sounds logistically impossible. Today there are over 7 billion people on the earth. How many wives would it take to bear 7 billion spirit beings? Kimball believed that Joseph would tell him that thousands of wives would be available. Let's suppose that God the Father had 7 thousand wives. Each wife would need to bear 1 million spirit children for there to be 7 billion people on an earth. Kimball claimed that there were millions of males and females in the spirit world. Or, let's suppose God the Father had 7 million wives. Each wife would have to bear 1 thousand spirit children to reach the 7 billion people mark. God the Father would have to be extremely busy with his wives. I am not going to do the math on that!
Mormon doctrine creates some serious logistical problems. It doesn't seem possible or even logical. Who would want to be the millionth wife? What kind of care would the thousandth child receive? This is much different than Genesis 2:24: "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." It doesn't say a thousand flesh or a million flesh. It says one man and one woman should become one flesh. Jesus spoke of the heavenly marriage mistake in Matthew 22:29&30: "Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven." I think we can safely say that the God of the Bible is not the Mormon god with his many wives.
