Sat, 11 Jan 2025 04:27:00 -0800WeeblyMon, 04 May 2020 04:35:19 GMThttp://houseoftruthministries.org/the-mormon-church-teaches-that-god-the-father-sired-jesus-christ-with-his-wife-mary/the-mormon-church-teaches-that-god-the-father-sired-jesus-christ-with-his-wife-maryThe Bible and the Book of Mormon teach that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost. The Bible and the Book of Mormon clearly show that birth of Jesus was not a natural birth.
 
Alma 7:10
 “And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a son, yea, even the Son of God.”

Matthew 1:20
“But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.”
However, Brigham Young does not agree with the Bible and the Book of Mormon. He does not believe that Jesus was begotten by the Holy Ghost. Also, Brigham Young along with Herbert C. Kimball believe that the birth of Jesus was as natural as ours.

Journal of Discourses, Vol.1, p.50, Brigham Young, April 9, 1852
            The question has been, and is often, asked, who it was that begat the Son of the Virgin Mary.  When the Virgin Mary conceived the child Jesus, the Father had begotten him in his own likeness.  He was not begotten by the Holy Ghost.

Journal of Discourses, Vol.8, p.115, Brigham Young, July 8, 1860
            The birth of the Saviour was as natural as are the births of our children; it was the result of natural action.  He partook of flesh and blood--was begotten of his Father, as we were of our fathers.

What is the natural action that results in the birthing of our children?

Journal of Discourses, Vol.8, p.211, Heber C. Kimball, September 2, 1860
            In relation to the way in which I look upon the works of God and his creatures, I will say that I was naturally begotten; so was my father, and also my Savior Jesus Christ.  According to the Scriptures, he is the first begotten of his father in the flesh, and there was nothing unnatural about it.

Bruce McConkie and the Encyclopedia of Mormonism echo the same as mentioned above.

Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p.742 SON OF GOD
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.

Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol.2, JESUS CHRIST
Latter-day Saints recognize Jesus as literally the Only Begotten Son of God the Father in the flesh (John 3:16; D&C 93:11; Moses 6:52). This title signifies that Jesus' physical body was the offspring of a mortal mother and of the eternal Father (Luke 1:35, 1 Ne. 11:18). It is LDS doctrine that Jesus Christ is the child of Mary and God the Father, "not in violation of natural law but in accordance with a higher manifestation thereof" (JC, p. 81).

Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p.546 ONLY BEGOTTEN SON
Christ was begotten by an Immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.
How are mortal men begotten by mortal fathers?
Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol.2, JESUS CHRIST
For Latter-day Saints, the paternity of Jesus is not obscure. He was the literal, biological son of an immortal, tangible Father and Mary, a mortal woman.

The next quotes can be found on LDS.org. The articles below say “Jesus was literally sired in the flesh by God the Father.”

Theological Questions, Sept 1971
By Karl T. Haglund
“One participant asked about the nature of Christ’s perfection—did he have to overcome our weaknesses or was he better to begin with? The group determined that since Jesus was literally sired in the flesh by God the Father, it meant that he had it in him to be immortal as well as mortal, but that even in the premortal existence, there was one “that was like unto God.”
I do not know how LDS Church member can deny that the LDS Church teaches that Heavenly Father had sexually relations with Mary to bring about the earthly existence of Jesus.

The Savior and Joseph Smith— Alike Yet Unlike, Ensign, May 1991, 32
By Elder Francis M. Gibbons of the Seventy
“The Savior was born of a mortal mother but was sired by the Eternal Father.”

Five Marks of the Divinity of Jesus Christ, Ensign, Dec 2001, 8
By President Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994)
 “Thus the testimonies of appointed witnesses leave no question as to the paternity of Jesus Christ. God was the Father of His fleshly tabernacle, and Mary, a mortal woman, was His mother. He is therefore the only person born who rightfully deserves the title “the Only Begotten Son of God.”
“I am bold to say to you, … Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense. The body in which He performed His mission in the flesh was sired by that same Holy Being we worship as God, our Eternal Father. He was not the son of Joseph, nor was He begotten by the Holy Ghost. He is the Son of the Eternal Father!”

Brigham Young taught that Mary had two husbands, Joseph and God the Father..

Journal of Discourses, Vol.11, p.268, Brigham Young, August 19, 1866
“This matter was a little changed in the case of the Savior of the world, the Son of the living God.  The man Joseph, the husband of Mary, did not, that we know of, have more than one wife, but Mary the wife of Joseph had another husband.  On the manger, was begotten, not by Joseph, the husband of Mary, but by another Being.  Do you inquire by whom?  He was begotten by God our heavenly Father.”

Brigham Young, Desert News, 10/10/1866
“The man Joseph, the husband of Mary, did not, that we know of, have more than one wife, but Mary, the wife of Joseph, had another husband-God the Father.”

All the above quotations should prove two things to any LSD Church member and to the public at large that LDS Church teaches that Heavenly Father had a sexual relationship with Mary to bring about the earthly existence of Jesus Christ and that Mary had two husbands, Joseph and God the Father.
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