Depois de mais de um ano de espera, foram publicados em língua portuguesa os ensaios do site lds.org. Eles podem ser encontrados neste link.
Os ensaios estão em uma seção do site intitulada Tópicos do Evangelho e incluem O Livro de Mórmon e Estudos de DNA, A Tradução do Livro de Mórmon, A Paz e a Violência entre os Membros da Igreja no Século XIX, O Casamento Plural em A Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos Santos dos Últimos Dias, e As Etnias e o Sacerdócio, entre outros.
Além do português, os ensaios também foram traduzidos para o alemão, francês, italiano, e espanhol.
A novidades nos foi relatada hoje (29/12) pelo nosso leitor Orwell.
Vozes Mórmons 
O material “O Casamento Plural em A Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos Santos dos Últimos Dias” é uma tradução parca e porca ao meu ver… Erra quando afirma que o casamento plural foi autorizado no por D’us passado … Erra novamente ao citar os patriarcas e surpreendentemente ao citar Moisés, que teve apenas uma esposa. Erra também quando afirma que a maioria dos homens tinham 2 esposas e que as mulheres tinham liberdade para escolher se aceitavam este modo de casamento ou se desejavam ficar solteiras…
Vejam se pela boca de duas ou mais testemunhas toda verdade pode ser confirmada por 2 ou mais erros no mesmo texto ela pode ser desfeita. Oculta-se que os lideres maiores como JS e BY tiveram mais de 30 esposas… Fora outros que talvez não detenham estes “recordes”, mas deveria ser uma grande farra esta pratica…
É um episódio vergonhoso para a igreja… No Fairmormon pode-se ler:
“Zina Marries Henry
(1) Henry courted Zina in 1840 and early 1841. She was nineteen going on twenty,1 and Henry was four years her senior. Both were active Church members and close to the leadership. Henry was an avid missionary, a friend of Zina’s brothers, and a one-time member of the Nauvoo Legion Band.2
(2) While Zina was being courted by Henry she was also approached by Joseph Smith who explained plural marriage to her and indicated that she should be his plural wife. From available accounts, Joseph approached Zina three times and was turned down each time.3 The teaching of plural marriage, at this time, was done in secret, one individual to another. There were only a few men and women who were introduced to and invited to participate in the principle. Zina clearly knew about the principle while being courted by Henry, but there is no extant information indicating he was aware of plural marriage or of Joseph’s proposals to Zina.
(3) Zina and Henry were married on March 7, 1841, by John C. Bennett, just a month after Bennett’s election as mayor.4 Bennett was also Assistant President of the Church. Tradition among some descendents of Henry and Zina indicates that Bennett was not their first choice to perform the marriage. Oa Cannon, granddaughter of Zina and Henry, relates the following:
Sealing to Joseph Smith
(4) Sometime after Henry and Zina were married, Joseph told Dimick Huntington, Zina’s brother, the story of why he was compelled to introduce plural marriage, and asked that Dimick tell the story to Zina. As Zina is quoted by one author to have said, “Tell Zina I have put it off and put it off until an angel with a drawn sword has stood before me and told me if I did not establish that principle [plurality of wives] and live it, I would lose my position and my life and the Church could progress no further.”6
(5) Sometime after Zina heard this story and almost eight months after being married to Henry, Zina was sealed to Joseph Smith. The ordinance was performed by Dimick on October 27, 1841, on the banks of the Mississippi River.7 This event marks a major change in Zina’s behavior, as she had previously turned down Joseph’s proposals.
(6) There was no divorce from Henry; Zina was still married to him prior to the sealing, was pregnant with Henry’s first child at the time of the sealing, and continued to live as Henry’s wife after the sealing. Joseph obviously felt that it was permissible to marry an already married woman, else he would not have been sealed to Zina.8 Some may claim that such polyandrous sealings were eternal in nature only, meaning that Joseph never intended them to be recognized as an earthly marriage. There is strong historical evidence to refute such a position, however. Perhaps the best contraindication in Zina’s case is that the sealing was repeated after the completion of the Nauvoo temple, Brigham was married to Zina in what appears to be a levirate marriage on behalf of Joseph, and Zina declared herself a wife of the martyred Prophet after polygamy was made public in the 1850s.” grifos meus
Link aqui: http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/2006-fair-conference/2006-zina-and-her-men-an-examination-of-the-changing-marital-state-of-zina-diantha-huntington-jacobs-smith-young
Observem que no paragrafo 4 e 5 entendemos que JS não desiste da ideia de possuir Zina como esposa… Se lerem este artigo no link verão que uma questão que levantam para BY ter casado com Zina é a lei do levirato… Onde está escrito que Young era irmão carnal de Smith? Isso é nojento. Porque o foco na lei do Levirato se esta lei 1º se aplica apenas a judeus… 2º o irmão casar-se com a “cunhada” tinha um único objetivo prover progênie ao “irmão” algo apenas carnal… E se observarem mais profundamente o Henri Jacobs ainda era o esposo “corno” original desta história…
No paragrafo 5 podemos ler que Zina é selada a JS, ainda casada com H Jacobs… (Poliandria) O Fair não é um site “antimormon” pelo contrário, ele tenta engendrar explicações racionais para as questões mais complexas e contraditórias da história da igreja…
Por isso a tradução no site oficial sobre casamento plural é um lixo.
Shalom
Oba. Que maravilha.