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Mormons Say Jesus Was Married?
Answering Protestants Blog ^ | 12 September 2014 | Matthew Olson

Posted on 09/12/2014 6:28:11 PM PDT by matthewrobertolson

According to Latter-Day Saints (LDS, Mormon) President Orson Hyde, Jesus was married to several women, including Mary Magdalene, and had biological children.

"..[In John 2,] Jesus was the bridegroom at the marriage of Cana of Galilee, and he told them what to do. Now there was actually a marriage; and if Jesus was not the bridegroom on that occasion, please tell who was. ... We say it was Jesus Christ who was married, to be brought into the relation whereby he could see his seed, before he was crucified. ... I do not despise to be called a son of Abraham, if he had a dozen wives; or to be called a brother, a son, a child of the Savior, if he had Mary, and Martha, and several others, as wives; and though he did cast seven devils out of one of them, it is all the same to me. ... I shall say here, that before the Savior died, he looked upon his own natural children, as we look upon ours; he saw his seed, and immediately afterwards he was cut off from the earth; but who shall declare his generation?"

-- Hyde, at the Mormon General Conference, on 6 October 1854. (Printed in Journal of Discourses, Vol. 2, p. 82.)

Apparently, this position had support from Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, Orson Pratt, and others.

The LDS organization has since denied these claims. A spokesman said, "The belief that Christ was married has never been official Church doctrine. It is neither sanctioned nor taught by the Church. While it is true that a few Church leaders in the mid-1800s expressed their opinions on the matter, it was not then, and is not now, Church doctrine."

Still, Hyde's is an allowed position within Mormonism. That is concerning.

Of course, Christ is the figurative Bridegroom -- but He is not so literally, in a carnal sense! Also, for the record, the "seed" of His mentioned in Isaiah 53:10 refers to our spiritual relationship with Him, in the sense of John 12:24 and Galatians 3:26.

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TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Other Christian; Theology
KEYWORDS: inman; jesus; lds; marriage; mormon; romneyagenda; romneymarriage; romneywilldecide
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I would especially appreciate Mormon feedback.
1 posted on 09/12/2014 6:28:11 PM PDT by matthewrobertolson
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To: matthewrobertolson

Mormonism is a cult and is not to be considered Christian in any sense of the word.


2 posted on 09/12/2014 6:30:22 PM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: matthewrobertolson

Don’t you have to be married and have spirit children if you want to be a god of your own planet?

I don’t see how Mormons could consistently have any other view.


3 posted on 09/12/2014 6:35:37 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: matthewrobertolson

I think it makes as much sense to say he was married as to say he was not, at least in terms of what evidence is offered in the Bible. What I find interesting is that people find the notion so strange that he might have been married, as if contact with a wife is somehow defiling.


4 posted on 09/12/2014 6:38:40 PM PDT by Burkean (.)
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To: matthewrobertolson

Protestants suffer a lot of outrage from Catholics at FR, because Protestants are willing to critique the Mormon religion.

Mormonism is it’s own religion, it isn’t Christian, and they get a lot of their converts from Catholics, and Mormons get tons of Catholic support here.


5 posted on 09/12/2014 6:40:35 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: matthewrobertolson
Got news for you - Mormons aren't Protestants
6 posted on 09/12/2014 6:46:25 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: matthewrobertolson

some people will; do anything to deny the Jesus of The Bible


7 posted on 09/12/2014 6:52:30 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: matthewrobertolson
Mormons will be judged on their presumptions to craft writings equal to the Holy Writ, but Joe Smith had the problem from the very beginning. There's not much new in that regard.

Deut 18:21 KJV "When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him."

Among the many things Joe Smith prophesied falsely was his claim that Christ's return would be when he would be 85 years old, which would've been 1890. But in fact, Joe Smith died at age 39 in Carthage, Illinois.

"I prophesy in the name of the Lord God, and let it be written--the Son of Man will not come in the clouds of Heaven till I am eighty-five year old." E.F. Parry, LDS, Joseph Smith's Teachings, p.86. Cf., Church Chronology, p. 22.

HF

8 posted on 09/12/2014 6:58:27 PM PDT by holden
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To: matthewrobertolson; metmom; boatbums; caww; presently no screen name; redleghunter; ...

Your “article” is hardly substantive, but i understand you must be desperately looking for more hits for your poor blog. Again.

You first problem is including Mormons as Protestants, which is akin to including Santería as Catholic. Would you stand for that? Just what is your criteria for defining “Protestant?” That they are not in submission to the Roman pontiff? Whats next, Unitarianism, Scientology?

Why not that they hold to basic distinctives as well as core truths and of the Reformation, from adherence to the apostle’s creed to Scripture being the supreme authority as literally being the Word of God?

Go do a search and find out who has the most ministries combatting Mormonism. It is not Rome.


9 posted on 09/12/2014 6:58:41 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: matthewrobertolson
Mormons also say that JESUS and Lucifer are brothers.

Are they NUTS?! That says that EITHER Jesus is a created being like Lucifer was OR that Lucifer was divine. EITHER/BOTH is/are NUTS!

10 posted on 09/12/2014 7:05:50 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: matthewrobertolson

They can believe whatever they want to believe until Sharia Law takes over.


11 posted on 09/12/2014 7:09:05 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: ealgeone
Mormonism is a cult and is not to be considered Christian in any sense of the word.

I had never thought as Mormonism in the light of a cult, but...it sure has all the earmarks of one, doesn't it?
It certainly isn't Christian.

12 posted on 09/12/2014 7:09:21 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: daniel1212

Another thread not posted by Catholics to denegrate Protestants?


13 posted on 09/12/2014 7:09:27 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: matthewrobertolson

Precisely why Romney couldn’t win the evangelical vote. If he runs again, he will lose again.

If you believe all that nonsense that is divorced from reality, why could anyone trust you with actual reality?


14 posted on 09/12/2014 7:09:57 PM PDT by bobo1 (progressives=commies/fascists)
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To: matthewrobertolson

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15 posted on 09/12/2014 7:11:09 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: Burkean

I think it makes as much sense to say he was married as to say he was not, at least in terms of what evidence is offered in the Bible.

How? A married Jesus would have been...married, No? No reason not to present him as such.

A negative cannot be the proof or basis for an argument


16 posted on 09/12/2014 7:17:01 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: matthewrobertolson

I think Mormonism is just something Joe Smith pulled out of his hat.


17 posted on 09/12/2014 7:19:28 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: bobo1
"Precisely why Romney couldn’t win the evangelical vote. " I thought he lost becasue he was a RINO who spoke out of both sides of his mouth. Religion having nothing to do with it. mit romney photo:  romney-mouth.gif
18 posted on 09/12/2014 7:22:30 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Don Corleone
They can believe whatever they want to believe until Sharia Law takes over.

I don't care what the Mormons, Sikhs, Buddhists, etc believe since they don't want to behead infidels like me, (and Buddhists, Sikhs, etc).

19 posted on 09/12/2014 7:24:06 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: bobo1

Romney is yesterday.


20 posted on 09/12/2014 7:27:26 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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