Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kevin Deegan wrote:
Go ahead fill us in
DAVEH: From my understanding of Protestantism (biased by my LDS perspective), few Christians in the early 1800s believed God the Father and Jesus, his only begotten Son, were physically separate entities. Nor did anybody blieve (as you apparently do, Kevin) that the Lord would reveal himself face to face with a modern day prophet as he did in Biblical times. Nor did the Christian community believe that Jesus has a physical body of flesh and bone, assuming that he merely is a spirit alone.So.....in one simple revelation from the Lord, a 14 year old boy learned that much that was commonly thought to be known about God was incorrect. The God he personally knew from that experience was 'different' from the God the preachers of his time were teaching. They said one thing, JS experienced another.
Let me ask you, Kevin......
1. Do you believe Jesus currently has a physical body of flesh and bone?
2. Do you believe Jesus and his Father are two separate entities?
3. Do you believe the Lord can (or will) speak to prophets in this current time? (I believe you have answered this with a resounding 'no' already.....so there is at least one thing we find different in our (yours and mine) belief about God.
......This is an example of what JS learned that I feel President Hinckley was trying to convey in his below quote. Almost any LDS person reading his words would have instantly understood the context of Hinckley's comments. Apparently, you understood him differently. I can only assume that is because you did not understand the context of what he was saying. Does that make sense to you, Kevin?
Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kevin Deegan wrote:DavidM you speak of the Jesus of the Mormons, that it is the Jesus of the Bible.Do you believe in the Traditional Christ revealed in the Bible or the Christ of President Hinkley who was revealed through LDS revelation in the fullness of times to Joe?Seems it is The current President prophet seer & revelator of the LDS that has drawn a line of division here! In bearing testimony of Jesus Christ, President Hinckley spoke of those outside the Church who say Latter-day Saints 'do not believe in the traditional Christ.' 'No, I don't. The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak. For the Christ of whom I speak has been revealed in this the Dispensation of the Fulness of Times. He together with His Father, appeared to the boy Joseph Smith in the year 1820, and when Joseph left the grove that day, he knew more of the nature of God than all the learned ministers of the gospel of the ages.' - Church News (6/20/98, p.7)DAVEH: Kevin......I'll ask you the same question I asked Dean in a parallel post......"Did it occur to you that you may not have understood the context of what Hincley meant when he said this?"
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