Showing that
he is strong in rhetoric and little else, James White wrote the following:
Can an exalted man on a planet circling a
star named Kolob be the proper object of saving faith? (James R. White, Is the Mormon My Brother? Discerning the
Differences between Mormonism and Christianity [2d ed.; Birmingham, Ala.: Solid
Ground Christian Books, 2008], 6)
One can
rework this as a cheap rhetorical argument against White, too. After all, in
his view, the single person of Jesus (White is not a Nestorian) was
super-exalted with respect to his humanity (cf. Phil 2:5-11), so one could
write:
Can an exalted man in the heavenly sanctuary
interceding in front of another divine person be the proper object of saving
faith?
This is not
too far off what White wrote in his very first book:
He enters into the presence of the Father,
having obtained eternal redemption. Christ presents Himself before the Father
as the perfect oblation in behalf of His people. His work of intercession,
then, is based on His work of atonement. Intercession is not another or
different kind of work, but is the presentation of the work of the cross before
the Father . . . the Son intercedes for men before the Father on the basis of
the fact that in His death He has taken away the sins of God’s people, and
therefore, by presenting His finished work on Calvary before the Father, He
assures the application of the benefits of His death to those for whom He
intercedes. (James R. White, The Fatal
Flaw [1990], pp. 133-134).
As for
Kolob, see:
Answering Cecil Andrews on "Kolob" in the Book of Abraham
