I don’t need to be convinced. I was taught that in LDS sacrament meetings, LDS sunday school, LDS Institute; LDS relief society, at BYU, and from other Mormons.
They even re-define “virgin” to be ‘a woman of marriable age’ rather than a physical virign.
How much clearer can you get than this...
There is nothing figurative about his paternity; he was begotten, conceived and born in the normal and natural course of events, (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p.742 Son Of God, LDS Collectors Library ‘97 CD-ROM)
bodily offspring; (James R. Clark, Messages of the First Presidency, Vol.5, p.26-27 The Father and the Son: A Doctrinal Exposition by The First Presidency and the Twelve, June 1916, LDS Collectors Library ‘97 CD-ROM)
Ok If Mormons believe that then find a link where they **exactly** say that. Where do they say that Mary was not a virgin at Jesus Birth and that God the Father had intercourse with her?
You are convinced that Mormons teach this so it should be easy to find where they plainly state this.
Color me skeptical with this “implied” stuff.
Personally....I think many of the posters invent stuff about the Mormons.
Virgins don't conceive unless it is a miracle. Evidently, Mormons believe that God the Father did NOT have intercourse with Mary. They believe that she was over shaddowed by the Holy Ghost and that the conception was by power of the Holy Ghost ( this is what my **Christian** denomination teaches, by the way),
Alma 7
10 And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a son, yea, even the Son of God.
Nephi 2;114
14 Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign— Behold, a avirgin shall conceive, and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Emanuel.
My conclusion: This article is a hit piece. I don't believe a thing posted on Free Republic about the Mormons.