The Salt Lake Tribune reports from the 177th annual LDS General Conference:
Among the day’s sermons, the “we are Christians, too” mantra stood out.
It may have been prompted, in part, by the recent distribution of an anti-Mormon DVD produced by evangelical Christians or by some of the harsh statements about LDS theology made in the context of Mitt Romney’s campaign for president.
During the morning session, Hinckley said he found the Nicene Creed, a statement from 325 A.D. about the relationship between God the Father and Jesus Christ that most Christians accept, to be “confusing.”
The LDS Church relies instead on the personal experience of founder Joseph Smith, who claimed to have a vision of God and Jesus in 1820.
“He knelt in their presence; he heard their voices; and he responded,” Hinckley said. “Each was a distinct personality.”
God is a “being, real and individual. He is the great governor of the universe, yet, he is our father, and we are his children. . . . Jesus is the living Christ. He is the Jehovah of the Old Testament and the Messiah of the New.”
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