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Huckabee Questions Mormons' Belief
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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?"
The article, to be published in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, says
Huckabee asked the question after saying he believes Mormonism is a religion
but doesn't know much about it. His rival Mitt Romney, the former
Massachusetts governor, is a member of the Mormon church, which is known
officially as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The authoritative Encyclopedia of Mormonism, published in 1992, does not
refer to Jesus and Satan as brothers. It speaks of Jesus as the son of God
and of Satan as a fallen angel, which is a Biblical account.
A spokeswoman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said
Huckabee's question is usually raised by those who wish to smear the Mormon
faith rather than clarify doctrine.
"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."
Romney did not respond to a request for comment.
Earlier this month in Iowa, Huckabee wouldn't say whether he thought
Mormonism - rival Romney's religion - was a cult.
"I'm just not going to go off into evaluating other people's doctrines and
faiths. I think that is absolutely not a role for a president," the former
Arkansas governor said.
While he said he respects "anybody who practices his faith," Huckabee said
that what other people believe - he named Republican rivals Romney, John
McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton - "is theirs to
explain, not mine, and I'm not going to."
He also resisted wading into theology when pressed to explain why some
evangelicals don't view the Mormon faith as a Christian denomination.
Huckabee Questions Mormons' Belief
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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?"
The article, to be published in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, says
Huckabee asked the question after saying he believes Mormonism is a religion
but doesn't know much about it. His rival Mitt Romney, the former
Massachusetts governor, is a member of the Mormon church, which is known
officially as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The authoritative Encyclopedia of Mormonism, published in 1992, does not
refer to Jesus and Satan as brothers. It speaks of Jesus as the son of God
and of Satan as a fallen angel, which is a Biblical account.
A spokeswoman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said
Huckabee's question is usually raised by those who wish to smear the Mormon
faith rather than clarify doctrine.
"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."
Romney did not respond to a request for comment.
Earlier this month in Iowa, Huckabee wouldn't say whether he thought
Mormonism - rival Romney's religion - was a cult.
"I'm just not going to go off into evaluating other people's doctrines and
faiths. I think that is absolutely not a role for a president," the former
Arkansas governor said.
While he said he respects "anybody who practices his faith," Huckabee said
that what other people believe - he named Republican rivals Romney, John
McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton - "is theirs to
explain, not mine, and I'm not going to."
He also resisted wading into theology when pressed to explain why some
evangelicals don't view the Mormon faith as a Christian denomination.
