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Theology: LDS god is in harmony with the Bible

Well said....AMEN.

To bad that those who need to understand this will not be reading it. It makes so much sense, why is it so hard to understand? Could it be that they don't want to understand?

Very good Brother Card very good.

Mitt's talk was awesome to say the least on a par with Reagan and George Washington I would say.

God Bless The Romney's.

So where, then, do the turtles come in?

Beautifully written and explained. Thank you.

Brother Card, you speak of accuracy. I found your explanation of our becoming Gods less than accurate. I had the distinct impression that you were apologizing, as if to say, "Well, that's not exactly what we believe," when indeed it is.

You said, "We are forever his [God's] children and will never be his equals." That is neither accurate nor true.

You are a father today just as much as your father was to you, in every sense of the word.

Those who reach exaltation will be Gods to their children as much as our God is to us, in every sense of the word.

Our becoming Gods does not diminish His standing or capacity as our God any more than our becoming fathers diminish our fathers' standing and capacity as our fathers. We don't replace them, we join them!

I do agree with you on the point that more people need to attend their Sunday school classes--all of us!

I really enjoyed the geometry parable. It does the job to explain the differences.

I just learned something. Good old Plato, I wonder what he feels about his influence now?

Well said, Orson. I don't believe we ever had to be this specific when we taught the Brasilians the gospel in Sao Paulo, ne? And what's with the full head of hair? Congrats on your success in writing and thanks for sharing this with us. Elder Bird

Best explanation yet.

Unfortunately, that's a completely incorrect characterization of the traditional Christian concept of the Holy Trinity, which actually is much more close to the LDS concept of "Godhead" than most LDS realize.

What is the expression? If you want to know what a Mormon believes, ask a Mormon?

If you want to know what a traditional Christian believes, ask a traditional Christian. Not a Mormon.

Kathy,

I have a conversation on this very topic with a Traditional Christinas and he believed EXACTLY what Mr. Card said, so I think he did his research. Well done Orson!

If you want to understand something to the fullest extent possible, you first have to understand the definition of it (i.e. traditional Christian).
Your definition does not make it so!

Kathy,

I had a conversation on this very topic with a Traditional Christian and he believed EXACTLY what Mr. Card said, so I think he did his research. Well done Orson!

Where do you get this parallel line business? First you present a faulty understanding of the Trinity and then you shoot it down. That's called a straw-man argument.

Orson--BULLS EYE!

To me, the only question of relevance in the debate about who is and is not a Christian is to what degree does one's concept of Christ influence his or her daily decisions. If my concept of Christ deepens my commitment to live His teachings, isn't that preferable to making sure your dictionary and my dictionary have the same definition for Christian?

When a Mormon kneels and pleads for divine guidance, I doubt she envisions a much different God than the Evangelist on his knees, and I doubt the God who hears their prayers applies the dictionary test in deciding whose prayer to answer.

You have hands and fingers (unlike the God you appear to worship). Please stop telling us what we don't know and tell us what we "don't know."

Brother Card, if you're reading this, I would implore you to use your incomparable literary skills to draft a new set of Articles of Faith that would help define the Mormon faith. The current set was written prior to the Nauvoo period and doesn't include our cornerstone beliefs about the eternal nature of the family. I would like the Church to define our core beliefs rather than allowing critics to seize upon the extraneous and outlandish. Thank you for your wonderful essay.

It's interesting that Mr. Card introduces science into his article, knowing that science logically explains evolution as the beginning of time/man, without a God of any sort.
Also in regard to Christianity and Christ, Christianity existed with just the Father, until the Latin church introduced the "filioque" which inserted the word "Son" into the already established Nicene Creed without permission, therefore causing the split between the Christian Orthodox and the Christian Latin church which continues today, which means any old mortal can change how and what we believe whenever they want, and we have seen a lot of that. Still, Romney's my man.

Kathy,

Please share with us the traditional concept of the Holy Trinity. I would like to get it correct.

Thanks