ReformationUnderway

This blog is not intended to be a political forum. The context for this post is a political campaign, but I'm posting it for other reasons. Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a Baptist pastor before he was elected, was questioned about Romney's faith during an interview, and asked the interviewer, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"

I have never been in a Mormon church. I have never studied their doctrine to any great extent. That said, I have, however, heard a number of former Mormons state that the church does teach that Jesus and Satan are brothers.The interesting thing about this matter is the statement made by a spokeswoman for the Mormon church. We are not told in the article the exact question asked of the spokeswoman, but examine the response and see if you think it answers the question posed by Huckabee.

"We believe, as other Christians believe and as Paul wrote, that God is the father of all," said the spokeswoman, Kim Farah. "That means that all beings were created by God and are his spirit children. Christ, on the other hand, was the only begotten in the flesh and we worship him as the son of God and the savior of mankind. Satan is the exact opposite of who Christ is and what he stands for."

That response didn't enlighten me at all as to whether they teach that Satan is the brother of Jesus. You could conclude, though not definitively, that they don't believe Satan was "begotten in the flesh." You could not conclude that they teach that Satan was not begotten as a son of God the Father.