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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Mormonism is a cult and is not to be considered Christian in any sense of the word.
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.
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.
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.
some people will; do anything to deny the Jesus of The Bible
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.
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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.
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!
They can believe whatever they want to believe until Sharia Law takes over.
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.
Another thread not posted by Catholics to denegrate Protestants?
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?
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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
I think Mormonism is just something Joe Smith pulled out of his hat.
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).
Romney is yesterday.
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