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To: ejonesie22

Let me address this issue of Christ being Satan’s brother. For some this is a major issue, but why it should demean Jesus, I don’t know.

Latter-day Saints believe that all of God’s children lived as spirits before we were born. This is often referred by Church members as the premortal existence or preexistence.

Jesus was the firstborn of all God’s children and chosen and anointed by the Father in this premortal existence to be the Savior of mankind. Lucifer was among these hosts in the premortal existence and because of jealousy and pride (wanting God’s honor for himself) rebelled against God and declared war against the Father and the Son.

Because of rebellion he was cast out of God’s presence along with many others who had followed him in the rebellion (sometimes referred to as the “war in heaven” , and became Satan, the father of lies. His mission to fight against the Father and the Son continue on this earth where he seeks to tempt us humans to sin.

Christ is all good, Satan is all evil. While technically you could say they are brothers, there is no similarity at all between them. To me this “relationship” does not diminish Jesus in the slightest.

Best,

Normandy


222 posted on 03/19/2010 7:51:22 PM PDT by Normandy
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To: Normandy
Start from a false assumption and everything else becomes grosser error.

Christ was not just one of a number of some man god's spirit children in some preexistence Christ is the word made flesh. He is God, not a god but The God, who has existed forever.. The Bible is very clear in this. Ironically the BOM is also replete with references to the Trinity. Of course that is conveniently kicked to the curb because one of the big selling points the LDS con pushes is the whole “god of your own harem and planet” bit which dies rather rapidly in the True Monotheistic reality of the Trinity.

Anything else demotes Christ and putting him on par with the Evil One himself just makes it worse.

259 posted on 03/19/2010 8:39:15 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Palin bashers on freerepublic, like a fart in Church...)
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To: Normandy
Jesus was the firstborn of all God’s children and chosen and anointed by the Father in this premortal existence to be the Savior of mankind.

So, Jesus is NOT God; but merely one of his children? ...with a special TASK to do?

268 posted on 03/19/2010 8:48:56 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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