Thursday, July 10, 2025

Melvin J. Ballard (August 14, 1934) Addressing Whether Jesus was a Polygamist

  

The Church has not taken the position that Jesus Christ has plural wives. It is true that one of the early elders of the Church so advocated it but the Church itself has never made any such statement. (Melvin J. Ballard, Letter to Eslie D. Jenson, August 14, 1934, repr. The Star of Truth 3, no. 7 [July 1955]: 216)

 

 

Further Reading:

 

B. H. Roberts Foundation/Mormonr, Latter-day Saints and Polygamy (cf. Primary Sources)