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| − | ==Question: What purposes could plural marriage possibly serve?==
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| − | ===Save for scriptural accounts, any other "reasons" which we attach, in retrospect, to plural marriage can only be based on supposition and intellectual deduction===
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| − | 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:
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| − | # It was to try (prove) His people. Polygamy stood as an Abrahamic test for the saints.
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| − | # It was to "raise up" righteous seed.
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| − | # 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.
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| − | # Polygamy was part of the "restoration of all things."
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| − | # Numerous family ties were created, building a network of associations that strengthened the Church.
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| − | # 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>
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| − | 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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