Another polygamy poll

[kamenraider]

kamenraider:

Is it your contention that Wilford Woodruff, his counselors, and Quorum of the Twelve are saying that some 95%-97% of the population of the Church(at that time) would not even be eligible for the CK simply because they were never asked to participate in polygamy?

No.

"You ask can a man be saved with but one wife? if he can, in what Kingdom? I answer, a man can be saved in the Celestial Kingdom with no wife at all, and a woman with no husband, and of course, then, a man can be saved in the Celestial Kingdom with but one wife."

--Brigham Young: American Moses by Leonard J. Arrington p. 317

I'm talking about eligibility for the highest degree of the celestial kingdom.

"Blessings offered, but rejected, are no longer blessings, but become like the talent hid in the earth by the wicked and slothful servant; the proffered good returns to the giver; the blessing is bestowed on those who will receive, and occupy; for unto him that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundantly, but unto him that hath not, or will not receive, shall be taken away that which he hath, or might have had."

--Joseph Smith, Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, Deseret, SLC 1984, pg. 509

"The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy. Others attain unto a glory and may even be permitted to come into the presence of the Father and the Son; but they cannot reign as kings in glory, because they had blessings offered unto them, and they refused to accept them."

--Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol.11, p.268 - p.269, August 19, 1866

"Strait is the gate," etc. (D&C 132:22).

BTW, do you think that church members had to be asked in order to participate in polygamy?