On December 6th, former Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney delivered his "Faith In America" speech from the Bush Presidential Library in College Station, TX. Much expectation was afloat for the governor to present his mormon faith as an explanation to his beliefs and quell the qualms of those believing Mormonism to be a cult, concerned with a President adjoining himself with such beliefs. Much to many's surprise, the word mormonism was only mentioned once in the speech and most comments were left to rhetorical, politically correct speak that Presidents are to be leaders of the entire country not just any particular sect of people - to which I agree - even though the U.S. has never elected a President that did not claim (whether lived up to the term or not) to be distinctly Christian, which mormonism is not.
Now that some time has passed and even Mike Huckabee posed a question as to what mormons believe - which was spun into a negative slam by both mainstream and unfair/unbalanced media outlets - the Elephant in the room is that the subject of mormonism (The Church of the Latter Day Saints - LDS) and what they actually believe and teach has yet to be addressed, to which I believe the LDS and their Presidential candidate hopes ambiguity abides.
It will be my attempt over the course of the next few posts to explain exactly what LDS teaches their following. Whether or not those teachings has an impact on a potential President - you can be the judge.
Personally speaking, (IMO) a person cannot separate him/herself from their core beliefs. Our faith indeed defines who we are. Though a Presidential candidate need not run for office based on his religious beliefs, his lack of faith should be a concern to Americans who enjoy the freedoms of our great nation that were founded by Christian men.
In the CNN/YouTube debate in Florida, the question was posed "do you believe this book [the Holy Bible]." The questioner then clarified his question so there was no mistaking the question by stating "Do you believe in this book" (turning the spine showing THE HOLY BIBLE inscription as he moved it close to the lens). Even if the question was a fake implant by the left wing as an attempt to expose the radical religious bent of conservatism, allow me the license to accept that question as "legitimate." As such, the implication in the question is: the Holy Bible is the ONLY word of God.
True or False: Mormons believe the Holy Bible to be the Word of God. False
They - as Mitt Romney stated in the debate mentioned above - believe the Bible to be the Word of God. The statement that Mitt Romney made as to his belief in the Bible is Fake - or False - that is if he truly holds to mormonism. To say that one believes the Holy Bible to be the Word of God must in fact believe that God spoke to the writers of Genesis to Revelation and inspired the message of the Bible. Theologians call this theory the plenary verbal inspiration of scriptures. (That is as deep as I will go in this format for Theology - you can thank me later).
Psalm 90:2 states: “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you have formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.”
Joseph Smith (the founder of LDS) has this to say about God - in direct contradiction to the above scripture:
“We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see. These are incomprehensible ideas to some, but they are simple. It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know that we may converse with him as one man converses with another, and that he was once a man like us” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.345; also cited in Gospel Principles, p.305).
I should probably go further on this subject - but will save it for another post. I want to close this post with an interesting answer to Mike Huckabee's question about mormonism:
Though Mitt Romney stated that it was a common falsity of Jesus being the brother to Satan and the LDS church has rejected the notion, I found this quote:
The 12th Mormon President Spencer W. Kimball wrote,
“Long before you were born a program was developed by your creators ... The principal personalities in this great drama were a Father Elohim, perfect in wisdom, judgment, and person, and two sons, Lucifer and Jehovah.” (Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, pp. 32-33).
This also goes to the false claim of believing the Bible to be the Word of God as Psalm 148:1-5 describes Lucifer as an Angel. Angels are created beings. The Son of God is the Alpha and Omega - the Beginning and the End.
It doesn't get much clearer than that. It simply sounds to me that Mitt Romney should run for President of the LDS and leave our Christian nation - distinctly Christian. More to come on this subject......
"...we need to make sure that we have a strong person who can take the baton from President Bush, and Gov. Huckabee is certainly one of those individuals. He'd make a fine president.” - Mitt Romney in 2005
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