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January 30, 2008

Sneaky talk

Filed under: Christian Apologetics, Christianity — Judah @ 12:20 pm

Crossing one’s fingers behind one’s back means that what one is saying is not the truth.

The recent death has been reported of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This organization is a cult that preaches an aberrant non-orthodox Christian theology while claiming (falsely) to be Christian - see here.

What really caught my eye about the report of their president’s death was a comment as follows…

Over the years, Hinckley laboured long to burnish the faith’s image as a world religion far removed from its peculiar and polygamous roots. Still, during his tenure the Roman Catholic Church, Southern Baptist Convention and United Methodist Church - the three largest U.S. denominations - each declared Mormon doctrines depart from mainstream Christianity.

“We are not a weird people,” Hinckley told Mike Wallace on “60 Minutes” in 1996. “The more people come to know us, the better they will understand us,” Hinckley said in an interview with The Associated Press in late 2005. “We’re a little different. We don’t smoke. We don’t drink. We do things in a little different way. That’s not dishonourable. I believe that’s to our credit.”

Yes, it may be considered to their credit… that they don’t smoke nor drink (although a little red wine has proven advantages to health, thus credit worthiness may be disputed) …and it is not dishonourable; not as a rule.

But that is NOT what was meant by the churches mentioned in the comment - the Roman Catholics, Southern Baptists and United Methodists. The now late Mr Hinckley sneakily shifted the topic of conversation sideways to avoid the issue of doctrine. Nobody was saying those things were dishonourable. It is their non-orthodox theology that is a departure from mainstream Christianity, and that was the issue which Mr Hinckley seemed to have preferred to avoid.

Sneaky, eh?

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