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| Former Mormon president and “prophet” Gordon Hinckley has muddled the issue of the LSD view of God. Many evangelical observers of Mormonism noticed the apparent whitewashing by Hinckley. A few years ago, he was questioned about the Church’s distinctive theological beliefs. When Hinckley was asked on an Australian TV broadcast if his church taught that God the Father has a wife, he replied, “I don’t know, but I suppose so. As we have a Father I assume we have a mother.” When pressed by interviewer David Ransom, Hinckley admitted: “Yes. Well we...Yes, we have a mother in heaven.” Similarly, when Time magazine, in a 1997 cover story, asked Hinckley if his church teaches that “God the Father was once a man,” the Mormon president attempted to side-step the issue: “I don’t know that we teach it. I don’t know that we emphasize it...I understand the philosophical background behind it, but I don’t know a lot about it, and I don’t think others know a lot about it.” However, FARMS seems to know much about God existing in the form of a man. | There is two-edged word of God for Mormons. Former President Gordon B. Hinckley, upon accepting the award on behalf of the Church, explained that the Bible project was developed to “help the people become better Bible scholars.” He said that the Latter-day Saints read, believe, and love the Bible, and that they are trying to live in accordance with its teachings and to “have a personal witness that Jesus is the Christ.” On the other hand, the Book of Mormon makes this statement: "And after they go forth by the hand of the twelve apostles of the Lamb, from the Jews unto the Gentiles, thou seest the formation of that great and abominable church, which is most abominable above all other churches; for behold, they have taken away from the gospel of the Lamb many parts which are plain and most precious; and also many covenants of the Lord have they taken away. And all this have they done that they might pervert the right ways of the Lord, that they might blind the eyes and harden the hearts of the children of men (1 Nephi 13:26-27 emphasis mine)."
How can Mormons seriously believe that the Bible is authoritative when they are told that plain and precious parts have been removed?
There are Mormons who admit that they have a “different” Jesus. In fact, there is support for this idea coming from the highest level in the Mormon Church. The LDS Church News Week reports the Mormon prophet explaining the Christ of Mormonism: “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 Fullness 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.’” |
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