Whether polygamy was an "accepted" practice is not the issue. God does not tell men to engage in this practice, but Joseph Smith did.On Polygamy… Is it not odd that the Bible should specify that it seems to be only if a man wants to be an Elder, that having just one wife comes into play? Doesn't that seem like Polygamy was probably an accepted practice among the rank-and-file Christian membership years after Jesus returned to Heaven? When/where does the Bible direct that to stop?
(BTW, "No", I'm not for Polygamy.)
This is what Jesus said in Matthew 19:
“Haven’t you read,” He replied, “that He who created them in the beginning made them male and female,” and He also said:
“ For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh?
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not separate.”
“Why then,” they asked Him, “did Moses command us to give divorce papers and to send her away?”
He told them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts. But it was not like that from the beginning. And I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
I don't see ANY room for more than one wife in this scripture.“ For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh?
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not separate.”
“Why then,” they asked Him, “did Moses command us to give divorce papers and to send her away?”
He told them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts. But it was not like that from the beginning. And I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”