Most every child in Mormonism has been taught that "Heavenly father" impregnated the Virgin Mary.

Okay. And...?

When were you notified that Heavenly Father boinked his wife

Maybe it's only because I was a convert but I got the version of the story that the Holy Ghost descended upon Mary and some sort of twinkling made her become magically impregnated. It sounded kind of like artificial insemination to me. God wasn't actually on the scene. There was no orgasm so that made it holy somehow. How the HG got ahold of God's semen is the mystery to me because I was under the impression that in the Mormon myth God, JC, and HG are three separate beings.

Since "God's ways are not man's ways" I had to just scratch my head and say, "Oh, well."

It happened the way all artificial insemination happen. God came in a cup.

Thanks for clearing that up for me Bill ;)

William Law Wrote:
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> It happened the way all artificial insemination
> happen. God came in a cup.

But it was a holy cup, right?
Or would that make it all leak out...?? :)

A "chalice". Makes it classy.

The Holy Chalice makes the Holy Grail look like a cheap piece of Tupperware.

If this were Sunday School, I'd bring up the possibility of Alien abduction and artificial insemination. So, Jesus was a human-alien hybrid. The star of Bethlehem was a spaceship. See, it all makes sense. Well, more sense than the gospel narrative.

Babyloncansuckit Wrote:
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> If this were Sunday School, I'd bring up the
> possibility of Alien abduction and artificial
> insemination. So, Jesus was a human-alien hybrid.
> The star of Bethlehem was a spaceship. See, it all
> makes sense. Well, more sense than the gospel
> narrative.


This could be the newest X-Files movie.

A long time ago, I saw a photograph of a horse who had just given birth to a zebra via embryo transplant.

As far as the mare was concerned, that was her baby.

So if you believe that God could create man at all, then it becomes no problem to believe He could have "somehow" have caused an embryonic Jesus to begin growing in Mary.

If DNA had been known of and there had been an ability to do the test, I feel certain that it would have shown that Mary was not the biological mother at all.

But that's just my take on it.

So.......

Why not just form Jesus out of clay and breathe life into him?

There’s gotta be a reason they told us Mary was 14 years old—to make raping Helen Kimball sound a little more acceptable?

I don't know that we teach that.

That was just a couplet.

Don't worry about that little wart of history.

Pay no attention to that. We haven't mentioned that in years. That is supposed to go down the memory hole.

That was just so-n-so's opinion. He was speaking as a man.



My guess is that younger members never heard that like us old timers.

The Virgin birth does not exist in Mormonism.

Unless it does. Mormons can go either way. See how it works?

Heavenly father had sexual relationships with the Virgin Mary,and that is what Mormons believe.
Mormons also believe that your brothers have different Heavenly mothers

Joseph : "you're what ?!?!"

Jesus told me that I was adopted in the pre-existence, and that's why I was born brown...

Q: from where did Jesus get his Y-chromosome?

Just askin'

That fact of Mormonism just rubbed me the wrong way.
God had sex with the Virgin Mary, and all of that nonsense.