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Claims made in "Chapter 6: Siblings from Eternity Past"
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Claim
Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother "through some kind of sexual union" clothed each of us with a spirit body.
Author's source(s)
- Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 750.
Response
- The author's claim is false: the means of spirit creation are not known. The source nowhere makes the author's claim.
- Misrepresentation of source: Spirits conceived through sexual union?
- "Celestial sex"
156, 394 n. 28-31
Claim
The belief in a "Heavenly Mother" is not supported by scripture and was simply added by Joseph Smith so that his views about God "would make sense."
Author's source(s)
- Milton R. Hunter, The Gospel Through the Ages, p. 98.
- Cannon, in Daniel H. Ludlow, vol. 2, p. 961.
- Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 516.
- Gordon B. Hinckley, "Daughters of God," Ensign (Nov. 1991): 100. off-site
Response
- Misrepresentation of source: none of the cited LDS sources make the claim that Joseph "simply added" the belief so his views "would make sense."
- Mind reading: author has no way of knowing this.
- Nature of God/Heavenly Mother
157
Claim
According to Brigham Young, our spirit body was created via a sexual union of Heavenly Father and Mother.
Author's source(s)
- Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 11:123.
Response
162
Claim
LDS belief in a "queen of heaven" is a pagan belief.
Author's source(s)
Response