Huckabee: I appreciate the effort.
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"
To begin let me say that I truly appreciate what Mike Huckabee is trying to do. Mormons are insane and that fact cannot easily be contested. The problem is that while Huckabee intended to strike a blow against Mormons he actually struck a blow against Christianity.
You see, Mormons believe that God is the Father of all. So, it follows that Jesus and Satan would be brothers (given what "father" and "all" mean). The problem is that the source of this belief is not found in The Book of Mormon or some crazy Mormon writing. It is from the Bible:
"One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all."
-Ephesians 4:6
The belief is not Mormon; the belief is Christian.
It will be interesting to see what comes of this. I doubt that many people will take the three minutes required to find the passage and realize that it is in Ephesians. This could lead to some delightful idiocy of the "Mormons are heretics because they believe something written by Paul" variety.
The saddest part of all of this is that Huckabee could have said, "Don't Mormons believe that the Garden of Eden was in Missouri and that Native Americans are one of the lost tribes of isreal and that Jesus lived in North America and that Joseph Smith found golden tablets buried in a hill near his house?"
Huckabee could have focused on MORMON beliefs that are uniquely MORMON and so illustrated how STUPID Mormons are. Instead Huckabee displayed that that:
1) Christianity is dumb.
2) Huckabee is dumb.
3) Huckabee has never actually read the Bible.
I appreciate the effort, though.
6 comments:
With this making news and all the reaction and interest, it's obvious to me that doctrine does matter. The fact is, despite what others may want to think, that many do care if their leaders are being led by the same God/Jesus as they are. What LDS don't understand is that Christians hold to Jesus being the unique Son of God. That means for them, they think that He's God the Son. He's the second person of the *only* God there is. Every other son of God is not a son with the nature of God. They are creatures with different natures (e.g., angels and humans). Jesus, for Christians, is exalted above anything imaginable, since He is literally the Creator of everything outside Himself--including us and Lucifer (Jn. 1:1-3, 14; Rom. 9:5; and Col. 1:13-18). LDS devalue Jesus since He didn't create everything. LDS don't even believe that there is a God for any world who is God by nature. Each God (since Mormons are polytheists) had to become a god, and is worshipped exclusively for that world. "Worthy" LDS hope to become gods of their own worlds to receive exclusive worship from their own spirit kids. But Jesus taught there is only one true God (Jn. 17:3), and He warned us of false prophets and false Christs that would come in the last days (Mt. 24:24). http://www.MormonInfo.org
Thank you for posting!
I love hating Mormons.
Here we go:
Jesus and Lucifer are spirit-brothers.
Jesus was the first one born of heavenly parents, and Lucifer was a younger sibling. Jesus is referred to as Lucifer's, as well as our, elder brother in the pre-earth life (Ibid.; Milton R. Hunter, The Gospel through the Ages, 15; Abraham 3:22-28 with Moses 4:1-4).
mormoninfo.org? I would hug you if you had corporeal form.
Read this.
At least get through the Plato and lines bit.
Here's Orson's debate with Al Mohler: http://blog.beliefnet.com/blogalogue/mormondebate/
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