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 Introduction In answering the question, "Is He The Jesus Of The Bible?" I will    primarily let the top leaders of the Mormon church and its teaching manuals    answer this question.    Mormon Prophet's Jesus Christ
 The president and prophet (the top man) of the Mormon church, Gordon B.    Hinckley, made a very telling comment about Jesus Christ in a talk in Paris    France on June 4, 1998.  Pres. Hinckley said;
 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, week ending June 20, 1998, page 7)Note Pres. Hinckley's words, " The traditional    Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak." Many    anti-Mormons have been saying this for decades. The Christ of Mormonism is not    the Christ of the Bible. What follows are more specific reasons why the Jesus    Christ of the Mormon church is not the one I believe in and cannot be found in    the Bible.    According to the Mormon Church The Spirit Of    Jesus Christ Did Not Always Exist, He Had A Beginning The first thing to understand is that the "God the Father" of Mormonism    has not always been God. He also had a beginning, just as his son.
 President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Our      Father in heaven according to the Prophet, had a Father, and since there      has been a condition of this kind through all eternity, each Father had a      Father" (Doctrines of Salvation 2:47)...President Joseph F. Smith      taught: "I know that God is a being with body, parts and passions...Man      was born of woman; Christ, the Savior, was born of woman; and God, the      Father was born of woman" (Church News, 19 Sept, 1936, p.2).  (Search      These Commandments, Melchizedek Priesthood Personal Study Guide,      Copyright 1984 by Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ      of Latter-day Saints, page 152) 
 As shown in this chapter, our Father in      heaven was once a man as we are now, capable of physical death...he and      our mother in heaven were empowered to give birth to spirit children...  (Achieving      a Celestial Marriage, Copyright 1976, 1992 by Corporation of the      President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, page 132)
 All men and women are...literally the sons and      daughters of Deity...Man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly      parents, and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father,      prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal [physical] body'....very person      who was ever born on earth was our spirit brother or sister in heaven.      The first spirit born to our heavenly parents was Jesus Christ...Our      spirits resemble our heavenly parents although they have resurrected      bodies. (Gospel Principles, page 9, 1981 edition, page 11, 1997      edition)What this means is that while "God the Father"    was progressing to become a God, the spirit of his son, "Jesus Christ," did    not exist. Only after the "Father" became a god was he able to procreate the    spirit of his son.  Now let us look at how the body of the Mormon Jesus came    about.    How Was The Body Of Jesus Christ Conceived In    Mary? How Did Mary Conceive Jesus Christ According to the Mormon church and    its top Leaders? Let us see how "God the Father," according to the Mormon    Church and its top leaders, used his parts and passions to procreate the body    of the Mormon "Jesus Christ."
 When the Virgin Mary conceived the child Jesus,      the Father had begotten him in his own likeness. He was not begotten by the      Holy Ghost. And who is the Father?...Now remember from this time forth, and      forever, that Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost. I will      repeat a little anecdote.  I was in conversation with a certain learned      professor upon this subject, when I replied, to this idea--"if the Son was      begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and      confirm females, and give the Holy Ghost to them, lest he should beget      children, to be palmed upon the Elders by the people, bringing the Elders      into great difficulties." (Journal of iscourses, Brigham Young,      1:51-52, April 9, 1852)On other occasions Brigham Young said: We first begin to read that Jesus came in the      flesh...But suppose I examine that, a moment. The New Testament tells me      that the Father gave His only-begotten Son a ransom for the sins of the      world. Do you believe that, brother B.? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is      the only-begotten Son of the Father? "Yes." Do you believe the Son was      begotten by the Father, as the Apostles said he was? Here I shall have to      disagree with you, to begin with; for I believe the Father came down from      heaven, as the Apostles said he did, and begot the Saviour of the world; for      he is the ONLY-begotten of the Father, which could not be if the Father did      not actually beget him in person. (Journal of Discourses, Brigham      Young, 1:237-238, July 24, 1853) These are interesting statements, because if we    accept them we would also have to believe that the Father committed incest.    The Father according to Brigham Young took one of his spirit daughters as his    wife and procreated the body of Jesus Christ with her. I find this offensive.    Are these isolated teachings only by Brigham Young? No, they are not. Now let    us learn what another president and prophet of the Mormon Church said while    speaking to children at an official meeting:
 ...The man Joseph, the husband of Mary, did      not, that we know of, have more than one wife, but Mary the wife of      Joseph had another husband... The very babe that was cradled in the      manger, was begotten, not by Joseph, the husband of Mary, but by another      Being.  Do you inquire by whom?  He was begotten by God our heavenly      Father. (Journal of Discourses, Brigham Young, 11:268, August 19,      1866)
 A MODERN PROPHET'S ANSWER...I want the little      folks [children] to hear what I am going to tell you. I am going to tell you      a simple truth, yet it is one of the greatest truths and one      of the most simple facts ever revealed to the children of men. Note in the first paragraph of this reference the    phrases "I am going to tell you a simple truth," "one of the greatest truths"    and  "simple facts ever revealed to the children of men." In other words what    is said is truth and revelation. Note that the person speaking was the    president of the Mormon Church and he was speaking at an official meeting.    This was not just his personal opinion. On page 126 of this last reference, a    teaching manual published by the Mormon Church, is a graphic picture of an    algebraic equation:     Daddy + Mommy = YouYou all know that your fathers are indeed your fathers and that your      mothers are indeed your mothers - you all know that don't you? You cannot      deny it. Now, we are told in scriptures that Jesus Christ is the only      begotten Son of God in the flesh. Well, now for the benefit of the older      ones, how are children begotten? I answer just as Jesus Christ was      begotten of his father...Now my little friends, I will repeat again in      words as simple as I can, and you ask your parents about it, that God,      the Eternal Father, is literally the father of Jesus Christ. (Joseph F.      Smith, Box Elder Stake Conference Dec 20, 1914 as quoted in Brigham City Box      Elder News, 28 Jan, 1915, pp.1-2.)  (Family Home Evening [Manual],      Personal Commitment, copyright 1972 by Corporation of the President of the      Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pages 125-126).
 Our Heavenly Father + Mary = Jesus
 (Ibid, page 126).    Another LDS teaching manual has:
  ...he was able to make payment because he      lived a sinless life and because he was actually, literally, biologically      the Son of God in the flesh. (Messages for Exaltation, For the      Sunday Schools of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Gospel      Doctrine Class, published by the Deseret Sunday School Union, printed by      Deseret News Press, 1967, pages 378-379)Apostle Orson Pratt, in his publication, The    Seer, expressed a similar idea. God, the Father of our spirits, became the      Father of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh....it was the      personage of the Father who begat the body of Jesus...both the spirit and      body of Jesus were begotten by the Father... The fleshly body of Jesus      required a Mother as well as a Father. Therefore, the Father and Mother of      Jesus, according to the flesh, must have been associated together in the      capacity of Husband and Wife, hence the virgin Mary must have been, for      the time being, the Lawful wife of God the Father. (The Seer, by      Apostle Orson Pratt, October 1853, Vol. 1, No. 10, p. 158)Another said: President Ezra Taft Benson stated, "The Church      of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus Christ is the      Son of God in the most literal sense. The body in which He performed His      mission in the flesh was fathered by that same Holy Being we worship as God,      our Eternal Father. Jesus was not the son of Joseph, nor was He begotten by      the Holy Ghost. He is the Son of the Eternal Father!" (Benson, p. 4).    (Encyclopedia      of Mormonism, Vol. 2,  p. 725, 1992; The Teachings of Ezra Taft      Benson, p. 7) 
 Ancient and modern scriptures use the title      Only Begotten to emphasize the divine nature of Jesus Christ. Latter-day      Saints recognize Jesus as literally the Only Begotten Son of God the Father      in the flesh (John 3:16; D&C 93:11; Moses 6:52). This title signifies      that Jesus' physical body was the offspring of a mortal mother and of the      eternal Father (Luke 1:35, 1 Ne. 11:18). It is LDS doctrine that Jesus      Christ is the child of Mary and God the Father, "not in violation of natural      law but in accordance with a higher manifestation thereof" (Jesus The      Christ, James E. Talmage, p. 81; Encyclopedia of Mormonism,      Vol.2, page 729)
 
 These name-titles all signify that our Lord is      the only Son of the Father in the flesh. Each of the words is to be      understood literally. Only means only; Begotten means begotten; and Son      means son. Christ was begotten by an Immortal Father in the same way that      mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.   (Mormon Doctrine,      Bruce R. McConkie, p. 546-547)
 God the Father is a perfected, glorified, holy      Man, an immortal Personage. And Christ was born into the world as the      literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real,      and literal sense that any mortal son is born to a mortal father. There is      nothing figurative about his paternity; he was begotten, conceived and      born in the normal and natural course of events, for he is the Son of God,      and that designation means what it says.    (ibid, p. 742)I have provided a broad number of sources over a    long time period to show that the teachings about the conception of Jesus    Christ are not isolated to one time period or to one small group of    authors/sources. 
 Jesus Christ Was Married, Had Children
 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  (President Orson Hyde, Oct. 6, 1854, Journal of Discourses,       2:82 [Vol 2, page 82]).President Brigham Young, the president and    prophet, speaking afterwards at the same General  Conference , October 6,    l854, began his sermon with the remark, "I do not wish to eradicate any items    from the lecture Elder Hyde has given us this evening.....but I will say he    has not dipped into it yet; he has only run round the edge of the field.  He    has done so beautifully, and it will  have its desired effect." (Journal of    Discourses, 2:88-90) I discover that some of the Eastern papers      represent me as a great  blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on      Marriage, at our last [General] Conference [cf. JD 2:79-87, October 6,      l854], that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary,      Martha, and others were his wives, and that he began children.  All that      I have to say in reply to that charge is this--they worship a Savior that is      too pure and holy to fulfil the commands of his Father.  I worship one that      is just pure and holy enough to "fulfil all  righteousness;' no only the      righteous law of baptism, but the still more righteous and important law "to      multiply and replenish the earth."  Startle not at this!  for even the      Father himself honored that law by coming down to Mary, without a natural      body, and begetting a son; and if Jesus begat children, he only "did that      which he had seen his Father do." (President Orson Hyde, March  l8, l855;      Journal of Discourses, 2:2l0) It will be borne in mind that once on a time,      there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and on a careful reading of that      transaction, it will be discovered that no less a person than Jesus      Christ was married on that occasion.  If he was never married, his      intimacy with Mary and Martha, and the other Mary also whom Jesus loved,      must have been highly unbecoming and improper to say the best of it. (Orson      Hyde, Journal of Discourses, 4:259)The teaching that Jesus Christ is married is no    longer taught by the Mormon church. But the concept is still consistent with    the teaching of the Mormon church that a man now living must be married to    progress and become a god.    Conclusions The only reasonable conclusion a Christian could arrive at is that    President Hinckley was correct. The "Jesus Christ" of the Mormon church is not    the same as found in the Bible. Gal. 1:6-9 warns us about those that bring    another gospel. It also says that those that do are accursed.  2 Cor. 11:4    warms us of those that bring another Jesus.    John Farkas
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