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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I asked you first.
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I’m in for 900
Yep. Like I always say, there's no bigot like a "Christian" bigot. I'm not all that sure Huckabee is a Christian though, actually.
“Are you going for irony here?”
Was I supposed to use a “/i” ?
” And when I am far on the road to conviction and eight men. be they grammatical or otherwise come forward and tell me that they have seen the plates too, and not only seen those plates, but hefted them, I am convinced. I couldn’t feel more satisfied and at rest if then entire Whitmer family had testified. “
That quote is dishonest dano1, you left off half the essay where Twain goes on to rip Smith a new one.
http://syndication.nationaljournal.com/images/HuckXmascard.pdf
I am now officially blind.
LeGgrand Richards and Bruce McConkie can be ignored?
Interesting!
So you are saying god spit into three like an amoeba because he wanted to hedge against the possibility of being sued for damages.
My question to you is who is god afraid of?
“Why would he want to make Mitt’s problem HIS problem?”
That’s what makes it interesting, it will end up sliming both of them equally.
I cling to the following because there are too many things that I don't understand either but this is simple and straight forward:
Romans 10:9 (New International Version)
That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
It’s still early...
think of a crawfish boil,bullfrogs,anything,,but Hillary..
Weeding out the rif-raf that’s all,,
Person would tend to think that “the Huckster” could look up “Mormon” on the Net and find the answer to that question..
What’s wrong with Mary Poppins? My kids love that movie.
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Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
Good gawd almighty! that's enough to bury his campaign in an instant!
Twain does a good number on Mary Baker Eddy too.
Notice the dog.
He is crying out for help..
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My wife is LDS. I have learned a lot about them. Yes I guess you could say that the Mormons believe that God is the father of all and that he calls Jesus Christ His son. If Christ is his son and he is Father of all then that makes him father of Lucifer too. If He is father of both of them then I guess in some way you could say that makes them brothers. By the way I thought all Christian churches taught that same thing. If God didn’t create Lucifer who did? If God didn’t create Christ, who did? Why does Christ say he is God’s son, why does he pray to Him?
I detest religious bigotry.
Religious bigotry has no place in politics and that is exactly what Mr. Huckabee exhibited in his question.
Look at post #79 — no replies!
It probably means that the Mitt followers are gonna stay away from this thread.
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Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
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