Originally Posted by
James Banta
I don't see them as lying about the idea that the Bible is wrong about Jesus not being conceived of the Holy Spirit. They admit that but believe that their God Elohim committed incest with his own daughter impregnating her with the being that would become Jesus..
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. (Mormon Doctrine, by Bruce McConkie, p. 742)
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 (Ezra Taft Benson, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, vol. 2, pp. 724-725)
For Latter-day Saints, the paternity of Jesus is not obscure. He was the literal, biological son of an immortal, tangible Father and Mary(Ibid, Vol 2, p. 729)
Surely this is a clear statement that the LDS know better than what God has taught us in the Bible that:
Matthew 1:18
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Not only do the LDS demand that the Father is a separate being of flesh and Bone, but they deny the Bible that Mary was not with Child of the Holy Spirit but of a man exalted but never the less a man.. (Col 1:15, D&C 130:22).. IHS jim