Do Mormons believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers?<\/p>\n
No.<\/p>\n
Would Mike Huckabee accept that answer? Probably not.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The \u201cJesus\/Satan Brotherhood\u201d question, as the spokesman for the LDS Church stated, \u201cis usually raised by those who wish to smear the Mormon faith rather than clarify doctrine.\u201d<\/a> <\/div>\n None of those brothers was Satan. And my Church has never said, implied, or believed otherwise.<\/p>\n \u201cWait a minute!\u201d the Huckster might answer. \u201cYou believe that both Jesus and Satan lived in heaven before the creation of the Earth, and that both are the spirit children of God, don\u2019t you? Deny that, you lying Mormon cultist!\u201d<\/p>\n Ah, so the question is deeper than it appears, isn\u2019t it, Hucky? Which belies your own smirky little lie that you don\u2019t know much about my faith. Because to even ask<\/span> your smarmy question, you have to have a basic understanding of the LDS doctrine of preexistence, and the idea that all of us are sons and daughters of God, at least as far as the soul is concerned. So in that sense, yes, Jesus and Satan are brothers, as much as I\u2019m a brother of, say, Manuel Noriega. But if you were to ask me if Manuel were my brother, I\u2019d say no, because I only have one brother \u2013 in the flesh. And when people ask me about my brother, I usually answer without thinking theologically or spiritually. Manuel never figures into the equation.<\/p>\n When you asked the question, you intended it to be heard one way even when you knew you were insinuating something else. It\u2019s the same tactic that puds like you employ when you go around saying Mormons aren\u2019t Christians. Using specific theological constructs \u2013 i.e. Mormons are not a part of the historical Christian tradition, or Mormons deny the Nicene Creed \u2013 you define Christian in an exclusive way that is lost on the casual listener, who hears \u201cMormons aren\u2019t Christians\u201d and concludes that we worship Joseph Smith or Brigham Young or a head of polygamous lettuce and not Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n Both \u201cChristian\u201d and, in this case, \u201cbrother,\u201d have both a common definition and a theological one. When you slander us as \u201cnon-Christians\u201d or \u201cJesus\/Satan\/Brother\u201d types, you are thinking theologically while, at the same time, intending the hearer to associate the accusation with the common definition.<\/p>\n In other words, you are deliberately attempting to be misunderstood. Or, to put it more bluntly, you\u2019re being dishonest.<\/p>\n You, Mr. Huckabee, are excrement.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n