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Huckabee asks if Mormons believe Jesus, devil are brothers
AP ^ | December 12, 2007

Posted on 12/11/2007 4:12:59 PM PST by Tlaloc

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"

The article, to be published in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, says Huckabee asked the question after saying he believes Mormonism is a religion but doesn't know much about it. His rival Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, is a member of the Mormon church, which is known officially as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The authoritative Encyclopedia of Mormonism, published in 1992, does not refer to Jesus and Satan as brothers. It speaks of Jesus as the son of God and of Satan as a fallen angel, which is a Biblical account.

A spokeswoman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Huckabee's question is usually raised by those who wish to smear the Mormon faith rather than clarify doctrine.

"We believe, as other Christians believe and as Paul wrote, that God is the father of all," said the spokeswoman, Kim Farah. "That means that all beings were created by God and are his spirit children. Christ, on the other hand, was the only begotten in the flesh and we worship him as the son of God and the savior of mankind. Satan is the exact opposite of who Christ is and what he stands for."

Romney did not respond to a request for comment.

Earlier this month in Iowa, Huckabee wouldn't say whether he thought Mormonism — rival Romney's religion — was a cult.

"I'm just not going to go off into evaluating other people's doctrines and faiths. I think that is absolutely not a role for a president," the former Arkansas governor said.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: awwshucks; biblefight; carterx2; dirtytricks; expiredjuice; huckabee; huckabeesholywar; mormon; mormonism; reduxcarter; rinos; romney; satan; shazam
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To: PAR35

Very little.

What’s your point?


101 posted on 12/11/2007 4:59:28 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: AppyPappy

Facts just slow you down when allowing emotion to overrule intellect.


102 posted on 12/11/2007 5:00:49 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (-Not Afraid of the truth, and the whole truth - Are you?)
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To: mamelukesabre

At least everyone knows where you stand..If we knew everything we’d be,,,GOD..


103 posted on 12/11/2007 5:01:18 PM PST by silentreignofheroes (I'm Southron,,,and I Vote...)
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To: Zakeet

Ok, that helps a little I think. It sounds like a symbiotic relationship.

So my question to you is...which one is the parasite and which one is the host?


104 posted on 12/11/2007 5:01:30 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre

So if you don’t accept the Trinity, you are either a Mormon, a Unitarian, a non-Christian, or not familiar with your own religion.


105 posted on 12/11/2007 5:04:03 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Huckabee asks if Mormons believe Jesus, devil are brothers)
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To: cajungirl

“Im a Methodist and a Trinitarian. I thought everyone was.”

You are not supposed to tell!
Cat is out of the bag, now. Thanks....thanks a lot.

(yust kiddinck!)

: )


106 posted on 12/11/2007 5:04:42 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (-Not Afraid of the truth, and the whole truth - Are you?)
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To: UCANSEE2

The Mormons ciled mi chikens


107 posted on 12/11/2007 5:06:38 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Tlaloc
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?”

What a hateful and utterly stupid thing to say! Even I know enough about the Mormon religion to know that they do not believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers! They believe Jesus is the son of God, as do other Christians. What I can’t believe is how anyone could consider voting for Mike Huckabee after learning the facts about him! Now I believe he is not only a RINO, he is a bigot!

108 posted on 12/11/2007 5:07:11 PM PST by seekthetruth
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To: Tlaloc

That speaks to the irrelevance of all of the candidates in the coming election except for Duncan Hunter. It’s a balkanizing, old European, ethnic sideshow.

[Sideshow barker raises his voice.]

“Step right up, folks! We got your manly, bearded fat woman, who wants to be commander-in-chief for the glory of amazonian feminism! We got your hillbillies! Yes, that’s right, folks! The South will rise again! We got your romantic mystery religion man, whose church only gives business to its own members and micromanages every family! Right here, folks! See the shameless lawyer beast who’ll enslave all Americans for his own kind! See the effeminate, young man whose mind resides in Oprah! They’re bowing to the Iranians and selling your Nation out to China! Come on, folks! It won’t cost much! Vote for one to keep the other out, and get the same results!”


109 posted on 12/11/2007 5:07:45 PM PST by familyop (Nihilism is as hilarious as it was during the late 1930s.)
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To: mamelukesabre
What’s your point?
110 posted on 12/11/2007 5:10:11 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Kevmo
I think 1200 if the thread doesn’t get pulled.

I started to write 300 by mid night but realized that wouldn't mean a whole lot since so many time zones are represented at F.R. It's 7:06 P.M. where I am.

The other reason it might not make your 1200 estimate is that people are getting a little weary of this s.o.s. different day.

Mormonism is weird, no it's not, yes it is, no it's not,yes it is.................

111 posted on 12/11/2007 5:10:12 PM PST by Graybeard58 ( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: cajungirl
It scares me but if the choice were Hillary versus Huck, I might go for Hillary.

I need an intervention!


LOL!

Forget about an intervention because if either of them gets elected, we’re all going to need to get good and liquored up and go on a four year binge. I would suggest Jack Daniels or Tequila.

I’ve been so confused that recently I’ve been channeling Rodney King and asking – “Can’t we all just get along?”
112 posted on 12/11/2007 5:10:17 PM PST by Caramelgal (Rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words or superficial interpretations)
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To: disraeligears

“I detect a certain innate unprincipled meaness within Huck that is generally associated with certain “true believers”... these kind of folks will smile and tell you how much they and Jesus love you, while inside they “know” that you are going to hell in a handbasket and that they are “better” than you... they justify lying to your face BECAUSE you’re going to hell in a handbasket and they are saved by God All Mighty with whom they have a special one-on-one relationship to the extent that they have Him on their personal speed dial while you have to settle for His voicemail...”

I sense that you have a problem with Christians.... Sorry you are going to hell though.


113 posted on 12/11/2007 5:10:59 PM PST by Evil_Bok (Huckaboom)
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To: disraeligears
I detect a certain innate unprincipled meaness within Huck that is generally associated with certain “true believers”... these kind of folks will smile and tell you how much they and Jesus love you, while inside they “know” that you are going to hell in a handbasket and that they are “better” than you... they justify lying to your face BECAUSE you’re going to hell in a handbasket and they are saved by God All Mighty with whom they have a special one-on-one relationship to the extent that they have Him on their personal speed dial while you have to settle for His voicemail...

The vast majority of Christians I know--and I know a lot of them since I am one myself--absolutely do not think they're "better" than non-Christians. Christians aren't lying when they say Jesus loves you. He does. It's also essentially impossible to be a Bible-believing Christian and NOT believe that unsaved people are hellbound, because it's utterly clear from the Bible that there is one way and one way only into heaven.

I have to say that from the tone of your message, it sounds like you harbor a visceral disgust for a huge number of people you obviously don't know at all, yet you're accusing those very people of "meanness?"

As for the one-on-one relationship with God, it's absolutely wide open to you if you want it, so there's really no reason to hate those who did accept His offer.

Bottom line? Christians aren't better. They're just forgiven.

MM (in TX)

114 posted on 12/11/2007 5:11:43 PM PST by MississippiMan (Behold now behemoth...he moves his tail like a cedar. Job 40:17)
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To: Tlaloc

Huckabee learned his political tactics in Ouachita Baptist University, and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. What a dope. What is next for Huckabee, is he going to ask Fred Thompson, do the Methodist allow evil dancing.


115 posted on 12/11/2007 5:12:13 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: Tlaloc
...The authoritative Encyclopedia of Mormonism, published in 1992

Okay, who published this encyclopedia... some outfit based in Salt Lake City?

116 posted on 12/11/2007 5:12:38 PM PST by pointsal (q)
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To: Evil_Bok

You are a disgrace.

You declare a fellow freeper is going to hell?

Who the hell are you?


117 posted on 12/11/2007 5:13:27 PM PST by JRochelle (Thanks to RomneyCare, abortions in MA are at the reduced price of only $50.00!)
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To: Graybeard58
I personally am of the Baptist race.

You can't fool me. Baptists don't race. Baptists play softball, and then have a potluck.

118 posted on 12/11/2007 5:13:49 PM PST by LexBaird (Behold, thou hast drinken of the Aide of Kool, and are lost unto Men.)
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To: Tlaloc
If this report is true, I think I can hear the rusty hinges of the door to the GOP nomination opening for Fred Thompson (or Romney).
119 posted on 12/11/2007 5:14:13 PM PST by unspun (God save us from egos -- especially our own.)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

“So if you don’t accept the Trinity,”

GOD does not help me because GOD approves or disapproves of what I am doing.
GOD helps me because GOD is GOD. Because GOD is life. Because GOD is love.

GOD does not help me because I am good. GOD helps me because GOD is good.

—James Dillet Freeman


120 posted on 12/11/2007 5:14:23 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (-Not Afraid of the truth, and the whole truth - Are you?)
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