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==Question: What purposes could plural marriage possibly serve?==
===Save for scriptural accounts, any other "reasons" which we attach, in retrospect, to plural marriage can only be based on supposition and intellectual deduction===

Any such list as this is therefore tentative. Any or all of these things could have been intended by the Lord for the benefit of the Church and the Saints. A few of these benefits which have been suggested include:

# It was to try (prove) His people.  Polygamy stood as an Abrahamic test for the saints. 
# It was to "raise up" righteous seed. 
# It served to "set apart" his people as a peculiar people to the world. This social isolation that gave the church space to solidify itself into an identity independent of the many denominations from which the membership was derived.
# Polygamy was part of the "restoration of all things." 
# Numerous family ties were created, building a network of associations that strengthened the Church.
# Polygamy created a system where a higher percentage of women and men got married compared to the national average at the time.<ref>David R. Keller, "[http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/27/where-the-lost-boys-go/ Where the Lost Boys Go]," FAIR Blog (last accessed 9 May 2008)</ref>

Other benefits which we do not yet see or understand could also have been intended.  But, it reminds us plural marriage may have accomplished more than we sometimes appreciate.
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[[de:Frage: Welchen Zweck könnte Polygamie vielleicht dienen?]]
[[es:Pregunta: ¿Qué propósitos podría servir la poligamia?]]
[[pt:Pergunta: O que fins seria o casamento plural, eventualmente, servir?]]
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