Are Jesus and Devil brothers? Allie Beth Stuckey challenges LDS podcaster on Mormon theology.

[ad_1] <img class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="6fa7c6d89c94e93775c41819b5d7b6fb" id="3064a" src="https://www.conservativereview.com/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZWJsYXplLmNvbS9tZWRpYS1saWJyYXJ5L2ltYWdlLmpwZz9pZD02NjY1NTQzNyZhbXA7d2lkdGg9MTIwMCZhbXA7aGVpZ2h0PTgwMCZhbXA7Y29vcmRpbmF0ZXM9MTUwLDAsMTUwLDAiLCJleHBpcmVzX2F0IjoxNzgzOTAzMzYwfQ.YTOdWYBuwdOB_DxR9UomoFzUPpoW5TFB0OB_Bv1A22k/image.jpg" /> On a current episode of “Relatable,” Allie Beth Stuckey sat down with Latter-day Saints podcaster Jacob Hansen to dive into all issues Mormonism vs. Christianity. Allie requested all of the hardest questions that illuminated each the crossovers and the differentiations between her evangelical Christian religion and the religion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In one of many spiciest segments of this 90-minute debate, Allie and Hansen tackled the essential theological query: Are God, people, angels, and even Devil all the identical “sort” of being?

In Allie’s perspective, this query isn’t about semantics. Our reply determines how we view God, Jesus, our nice enemy, and what it means to be made in God’s picture — all issues which have everlasting implications.

“There appears to be a bit of little bit of a unique origin story, although, that each Jesus and Devil had been created in eternity previous … that Devil and Jesus had been brothers, [and] that we additionally — all of humankind — are brothers and sisters of Devil and Jesus. Is that appropriate?” Allie asks.

“I might say that Jesus and Devil are brother and sister in the identical means that you just and Nancy Pelosi are sisters,” Hansen jests.

“In Job 1, it says that the sons of God approached God and Devil was amongst them, proper? So, okay, Devil is likely one of the sons of God, and Jesus known as the Son of God. So is not there some sense wherein there's some relationship there?” he continues.

However Allie interprets Scripture otherwise.

“How do you sq. that with the origin story that we learn in Scripture that Devil was a fallen angel? ... Jesus even says that he noticed Devil fall like lightning from the sky, that he led his personal military of rebellious angels who had been demons in hell. And we do not learn that he was this being that was a brother to Jesus,” she counters.

“[Christians] would view angels as a very completely different species from human beings, as some completely completely different creature. We do not maintain to that kind of view. We consider that angels are additionally the identical species as human beings,” Hansen says.

“Scripture says that angels lengthy to see what we see, that they lengthy to know what we all know. And so there does appear to be a distinction there,” Allie disputes.

Hansen concedes that there's definitely a distinction between people and angels, however that doesn’t essentially imply they're completely different beings totally. “Maybe they're pre-embodied beings or they're post-embodied beings which might be not embodied,” he says, “however we do not make this distinction that there is all these completely different kind of species of creatures which might be on the market. … We're all youngsters of God.”

And that features Jesus within the Mormon religion. Hansen factors to Christ’s phrases in John 20, when he tells his disciples, “I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God,” as proof that Jesus is a created being similar to people.

Equally, there’s nothing in Scripture, he argues, to counsel that angels “are of a unique genus” than people, making Devil (a fallen angel) a brother, in essence, to each human beings and Jesus.

“You are sort of nearly equating people to God or that we are able to ascend to god-like standing, and is {that a} perception that the LDS church has?” Allie follows up.

To listen to Hansen’s reply, watch the episode above.

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