(TIME magazine, August 4, 1997 (D. Van Biema).
Interviewer: Just another related question that comes up is the statements in the King Follet discourse by the Prophet.
Hinckley: Yeah.
Interviewer: About that, God the Father was once a man as we were. This is something that Christian writers are always addressing. Is this the teaching of the church today, that God the Father was once a man like we are?
Hinckley: I don’t know that we teach it. I don’t know that we emphasize it. I haven’t heard it discussed for a long time in public discourse. I don’t know. I don’t know all the circumstances under which that statement was made. I understand the philosophical background behind it. But I don’t know a lot about it and I don’t know that others know a lot about it.
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ReplyDeleteInterestingly enough, Hinckley said the following in the 1997 October General Conference: "I personally have been much quoted, and in a few instances misquoted and misunderstood. I think that's to be expected. None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand some matters of doctrine. I think I understand them thoroughly, and it is unfortunate that the reporting may not make this clear. I hope you will never look to the public press as the authority on the doctrines of the Church." http://www.mormonwiki.org/Gordon_B._Hinckley_interviews
It's common for people to back peddle after they said something that makes them look stupid. Look at the talk that Boyd K. Packer gave last conference about homo's, after he gave his talk the church changed it before they published it on line or in the new era mag. During the 80 the church covered up a lot of documents that made them look REALLY bad, and went as far as saying they didn't even have them until they were FORCED to show them. the church is great at damage control.
ReplyDeleteI'm not attacking your beliefs just saying that the church leaders are human like the rest of us, yet when their humanity is shown to the world the church covers it up or says its being attacked.
Or, when it is shown that people inside the church are still human, the anti folk jump all over it like it means the Church itself must not be correct.
ReplyDeleteThat is a very fundamental mormon doctrine that hinkley denies. He can't blame the media for misquoting him. He clearly said that that was not something the church teaches. Maybe if he had said, "You know, I'm freaking old, and I forget stuff all the time. So yeah I made a mistake, lets move on." it would be acceptable. But even then, you also have to understand that this is supposedly the one connection people have to the word of god. Someone in that position can't afford to make big mistakes like this, and really should not make big mistakes like this if you believe he is being divinely guided.
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