Huckabee asks if Mormons believe Jesus, devil are brothers

AP ^ | December 12, 2007

[mamelukesabre]

Ok, I don’t see what the big deal is. He asked a simple question and got a simple answer. I’m not sure why he asked this question. We can read all kinds of evil motives into WHY huckster would ask this question. But the question itself seems pretty harmless.

BTW, I could be wrong, but as far as I know, mormons do not believe in the holy trinity as catholics do. Jesus is god’s kid, and the holy spirit is god’s drinking buddy. And satan is the bully that used to beat up god’s kid. And for that god sent satan to hell for eternity. See, jesus is his only REAL kid. THe rest of us are his step kids. And some of us are his red headed step kids.(try not to be one of those or you end up in the same place as satan)

This is my lame brain simple version of what I understand the truth to be as the mormons see it. I don’t know where huckster got the idea that satan was jesus’s brother. But huckster’s version of the mormon doctrine sounds just as good as mine.(to me at least)

Maybe a mormon can respond to my statements here and set both me and huckster straight.

NOw, before all the evangelical types get too superior on this thread, I’d like to point out that the catholic version of the holy trinity is, in my opinion, just as nuts as huckster’s account of the mormon belief of jesus and satan being brothers. Actually, if you think long and hard about it, the three in one thing might even be more nuts. At least, my simple mind can UNDERSTAND the drinking buddy, the kid, and the bully concept. I can’t, however, make heads or tails of the three in one thing.

[ansel12]

“This is the last thing the Party needs for its most loyal constituency (prob. 90 percent Republican).”

I would like to see those national figures for the Mormon vote, I’m not buying 90%.

[DManA]

Silly Huk. The core difference between Christians and Mormons has nothing to do with Satan. The core question is, is Jesus, or is He not ONE with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Is God a Trinity? Who cares about Satan.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

At this point I’d be happy with Hunter, Tancredo or Thompson, grudgingly support Romney or (shudder) McCain, and probably not support Giuliani, Paul or Huckabee.

[RightOnline]

"...if people are drinking so much jesus-juice that they cant see...

Just what in the hell is that supposed to mean?

[libbylu]

To write this for a NYT article is way low, why the heck would he ask such a question in a newspaper article that he could find the answer to in no time elsewhere? If he does this, it will be his fall, I hope he does. When I cool off I will read the rest of the article.

[DManA]

Are you not aware that Evangelicals are Trinitarians also?

NOw, before all the evangelical types get too superior on this thread

[WestSylvanian]

“The Rats are loving his rise in the polls.”

The Rats are behind his rise in the polls. It’s wall-to-wall Huckabee love on all the major networks. Meanwhile, they miss no opportunity to slam Romney. Tonight on Wolf Blitzer Gloria Borger, Jack Cafferty, and that Democrat lawyer who they call upon as a commentator, were ridiculing Romney and his endorsement by National Review. I find that very interesting.

[PAR35]

Don’t the Mormons teach that Satan is one of the spirit children of God and His wife? And since Jesus is a son of God (literally, in Mormon theology), they would be spirit brothers, wouldn’t they?

[mombonn]

I remember Jimmy Carter's presidency.

So do I. I still remember sitting on the bed, crying, that our country had elected that lying peanut farmer.

I claim Jesus as Savior, as does he.

Thankfully, Jesus knows our hearts, not just our politics.

[JRochelle]

Jesus Juice is wine.

I think. According to Micheal Jackson...

[no more apples]

No idea, since I’ve never studied the Mormon faith.

[roses of sharon]

Why isn’t he talking about our men in TWO WAR THEATERS who are being killed by ISLAMIC cultists?????????

[libbylu]

I was so ashamed to be American while carter was present,it was palpable. So happy to see Reagan elected. What a contrast.

[DManA]

It's wall-to-wall Huckabee love on all the major networks.

Huckabee is a former broadcaster himself. He has ingratiated himself with the big media herd. He's kind of like this cycle's McCain the reporter's buddy.

[Kevmo]

I think 1200 if the thread doesn’t get pulled.

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Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts

[Petronski]

Huckabee’s an ass.

How is this relevant to the office of the President?

[neodanite]

Huck’s question for Arlen Specter:

Didn’t Jews murder God’s only son?

His question for Rudy:

Isn’t Catholicism really a Satanic cult full of pagan images and customs?

His question for McCain:

Don’t you know that if you don’t turn your life over to Jesus, you’ll be damned like all those drowned New Orleaneans?

Huck is a bigot.

[fish hawk]

 In Mormonism, Jesus is also seen as the brother of 
Satan. Since Satan was also a preexistent spirit creation
 of the male and female earth gods, Christ must therefore 
be considered his relation. In other words, Christ and the 
devil are "blood" brothers. If the devil and his 
demons were all spirit children of the Mormon earth god 
"Elohim", it must follow that they too are 
Jesus' brothers, just as they are the brothers of all 
men. As one Mormon writer states, "As for the devil 
and his fellow spirits, they are brothers to man and also 
to Jesus and sons and daughters to God in the same sense 
that we are." (85) 

note (85) J.H.Evens, An American Prophet (1933)P.238

This is from "Cult Watch" by John Ankerberg and 
John Weldon

Harvest House 1991

[cajungirl]

It scares me but if the choice were Hillary versus Huck, I might go for Hillary.

I need an intervention!