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You are completely missing my point, evidently purposefully.

I said I may well be wrong on this point. I’ll have to do some research.

You said that Hinckley denied that the Church teaches the doctrine.

He did not. He said: “I don’t know that we teach it. I don’t know that we emphasize it. I haven’t heard it discussed for a long time in public discourse. I don’t know. I don’t know all the circumstances under which that statement was made. I understand the philosophical background behind it. But I don’t know a lot about it and I don’t know that others know a lot about it.”

In other words: It is not emphasized in the Church. I (Hinckley) don’t know a lot about that doctrine (and why should he? It’s not been fully revealed), though I understand the philosophy behind it.

You are twisting the quote to say: That is not the doctrine of the Church.

This is an increasingly Pharisaical line of questioning, PM. Will you persist until you’re satisfied you’ve caught me in my own words? Is that your objective?

This is an increasingly Pharisaical line of questioning, PM. Will you persist until you’re satisfied you’ve caught me in my own words? Is that your objective?

The only question I asked in that post was this: "How can any thinking man defend this kind of sleazy garbage?"

The rest of my post was simply an observation that Gordon Hinckley, like Joseph Smith before him, was a world class liar and dissembler. Hinkley lied when he claimed that he didn't know that the church taught that. That doctrine is taught from day one in Priesthood classes. That doctrine is what differentiates Mormonism from all other religions and that doctrine is what keeps Mormonism from being classified as even nominally "Christian". For Gordon Hinckley to claim that he didn't know that the LDS Church taught that is ludicrous. If he were under oath during that interview, he would have been charged and convicted of perjury.

You answered my question by admitting that the doctrine that God was once a man is, in fact, still taught in the LDS Church. Your admission makes a liar out of Gordon Hinckley.

Thank you for your frank honesty. It's too bad Gordon Hinckley couldn't be as honest as you.