THE POSITION OF- ADIAH ADAM posir TIONT TE

LATTER DAY SKUTT IN LATTERDAY SAINT SCRIPTURE AND THEOLOGY led TILECLOGY

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FOR THE DEGREE

MASTER O F ARTS OP 0

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RODNEY TURNER TLWER

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1953

turner Is accepted in its present form by the division of religion of brigham young Brighain presentform university as satisfying the thesis requirement for the

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cepec een epec lally inde 01 ed to cer ain members of the faceer aln especially indebted certain peligion brigham of the division of Pe glon brig ham young university religion brie han youna eli gion
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for their critical examination of the manuscripts 1 thelk them manuscript I in the name of dr sidney B sperry director of the division marn and chair mawn of my thesis ccmmitteee chairman committee ccmmittee 1 also wish to express my gratitude to my wife for her I willing efforts in transcribing my notes and for sustaining me throughout the venture I appreciate and 1 greatly appreellate the inmy by maby valuable assistance given myby the staff of the brigham young chu church historians ts university library and of the dhu ch Historian office in which locating the many sources from wh ich the material used in this use study was obtained and for the u se of their microfilms there are others who here go unnamed but who have every right to feel that they have had a real though invisible hand in the accomplishment of this work
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THE DISCOURSE OF APRIL

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the discourse itself Ans lysis analysis of the discourse

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THE LATER TEACHINGS OF BRIGHAM yoong BRIPHAY YOUNG YOMG

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conclusions were brigham youngs remarks misinterpreted was brigham young misquoted brigham what was the source of bpi ghar youngs views brighar Bri bhar mat what did brigham young believe
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the purpose of this study 1 to determine in so far is as is possible the views held by various leaders of the latter day saints relative to adam and more especially the official doctrine of the church as to his place in its theology the problem is based in part on the divergent and oft times bitter claims and counter claims of members ex mem counterclaims nonmembers bers and non members of the church of jesus christ of latter 1111ormon ormon day saints over mormon teachings concerning adam inthe light ornon in the brigtiam s Brigtlam brigiam tiam of a certain address given by president brigham young in 1852 rian addres indeed this address and the man who gave it remain the focal point of much discussion to this dayo day motmon t3 time from time to ta me articles anti cotmon in spirit and purpose appear attacking the latterday saints and citing the latten day latter dey alphe blaspheaforementioned address as irrefutable evidence of the 11b1 asphe mous b ea i eaPs of icormonism in general and its concept of god s beliefs e1 e4 ormont ormonl sm mans and mane relationship to him in particular nane mas it is hoped that nas this study will prove of some value in establishing the actual ever whatever of the church thus revealing the truth v tat evec doctrines hes that truth may be it is in that spirit that this thesis has been written the wri ter trusts that it will be received in a writer
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the method of study eathod sha she tha the nature of the problem demands that the writer divorce himself from any doctrinal expressions or opinions he has limited himself to the evaluation and analysis of the the doctrinal correctness of any quoted material aloneo alone given viewy or interpretation ws in terms of ultimate truths view truth is something which could not enter into any objective study knau kindo of this kinde the writer does not pretend to know of any meano for ascertaining such theological truth in keeping with means fod keeaing wit h keeling vith lod lor tee she the the prescribed methodology of thesis research see business

of this study is the collection and corr alation of manifest correlation codr the doctrine th fact not tho substantiation of theological doc trino upon aed state& the writer has re ned heavily up on the direct stateued stated relied dain ments of those concerned as much az possibles do a possibleo possi bleo possible this will dawn ill crease the likelihood of errors in analysis on tho wri torg writors the writers liklihood writer tors part and dubiety on the doad arrs it will also permit the readerts s readers roader road acts readar reader readerts quotas quotes to be introduced directly into tho body of the thesis the rather than have them relegated to the oft unfingered isolation of an appendix much of the material in presented in its chronological ia sequencee sequence for example the rejmarks of president young appear sequenced demarks remarks roi rolnarks in essentially the same order in which he uttered them stalew nts state the writer has attempted to select those statew ants pertinentv th which are the most pertinent the least ambiguous and theretv pertinen thich corm corn beat able to stand alone and unsullied by needless comm bast best fore baat mentery mentary centary mentery mentary zentary the following arbitrary rules of procedure have mentery Zen tary guided the actual witing of this tudyk study rcriting thia tudy&

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objective 20 select those statements which most elearly and 2 eleairly elegrly hich aich el eairly persona personta sonts completely reveal a given persons views personts 30 avoid the use of isolated ambiguous reference 3 references 4 accept all statements literally unless they are unless ot obviously meant to be understood otherwise herise arhat 5 hat in general base all conclusions on rrhat is actually ie said not on what is supposedly left unaaido unsaid 6 look for an overall pattern of thought in a given
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protond protoad does this study doos not protone to include all facets of as adaau adaar latterday saint doctrine az it relates to adam such areas latter day as adam a pre existent life his fall mortal life etcor adamas preexistent adan adaras
oom eom comprise comprise another study in themselves to have introduced them herein would have been to pass beyond the outermost limits thia which define and confine a thesis therefore this study is thl thi
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limited to an examination of certain material relevant to adama adam t latter day sain adams identity and accepted position in latterday saint
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THE DISCOURSE OP APRIL av 1852 OF 9 9v 182

me old tabernacle was scoy wasi wasl the dl gcoy the di3c0ur30 dlgcoy scou your young as overflowing aa president youn 9 arose to address the your9 to filled nmys teries even ing session of conference 110 spoke of the amys terles evening ile lle he mysteries lna ina and said that many of the elders of israel desired to know chesi thesi of theme but he warned his listeners that themi mirnd here is the place for you to teach great mysteries to your brethren because hero are those who can correct ho re here you this fault the elders of israel do not fall into el eri thl thi my in this Taberna ciot although they may in private house elet tabernacle villen when a man is capable of cbicd and neighborhoods czicd czich uhen giving you correcting you and of givingyou light and true doctrine gat get do not got up an altercation buit submit to be taught bult but your r like little children and strive withwall you might to tith ho dwell here are understand tho privileges of those dueil duell doll deil deli abroad arn sho greater than the privileges of those who dwell arb groat great tho wanon your duties call you into foreign lends and you yout wlnon yort vhen ehon torolga landa ehen lenda ianda lends lands wisdom wisdon and you knowledge no ledge noledge idom there exhaust your stock of woledge and idon keya are not in possession of tho kaya to obtain that instruct the key aon son zor 1on which you desire it is cocause you are zar from the bocause bocuae for ion aich lon hich far boa uhor cil 11 tho members the bea right fount ain zar from the t fountain far whon your face is when a 0 ehon ehen abo are in lively operation wao mya teries alone cor mys myateries mysteries for 1 is turned from the body let m terles alones f or this 13 yzteries wrong brongo the only place for you to bo corrected if wrongo to the membership president young following thim admonition thia amu2amenta briefly discussed aniusesienta and tithing after which he said 1 I I will close this sermon as 1 intend to preach another berill I ish fore 1 present the subject 1 more particularly wish to speak I upon words introduced brigham youngs controversial these thee adamgod addres nw nadam badam so called adan God address ss now quoted in stc ontlrctj ad dress dresa M its ontiret7o socalled Adam it
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the discourse itself my nexc sermon will be to both sa int and sinner one mynext mynett saint nelc thing has remained a mystery in this kingdom up to this ud day it is in regard to the character of the well beloved wellbeloved son of god upon which subject the elders of israel have conflicting views our god and father in heaven is a being of tabernacle or in other words he has a body parts as you with pacts the same asyou and 1 have and is capable of I ahyou darts cor showing forth his works to organized beings as f or show n R f be inge rod for ings orththe world in which we live 4v is the result instance in id itX in his 0 f the knowledge and inf inite wisdom that dwell anite awell of infinite eli eil personelle a pe yson organized body his son jesus christ has become rson becom age of tabernacle and has a body 1 ike his father ilke like f ather ether the holy ghost is the spirit of the lord and issues forth oods gods ood from himself and may properly be called god minister to imme nsity execute his will in immensity being called to govern by his influence and power but he is not a person of taberlesus nacle as we are and as our father in heaven and jesus christ are the question has been and is often asked iary who it was that begat the son of the virgin 1 arv lary the 4 postles infidel world has concluded that if what the apostles wrote inf idel about his father and mother be true and the present macorrecty cor rriage discipline acknowledged by christendom be oor rectY correctly correct chr then ohr istians must believe that god is the father of an christians I 1 illegitimate lesus legitimate son in the person of jesus christ 1 the inf 1 infidel fraternity teach that to their disciples I will tell our father in heaven begat all the spirits you how it is that ever were or ever will be upon this earth and they were born spirits in the eternal world then the lord by his power and wisdom organized the mortal tabernacle of we were made first spiritual and afterwards temp orals man temporals temporali temporal now shead shaad nowhear it 0 inhabitants of the earth jew and geI when vhen ntile saint and sinner 1 vnaen our father adam came into ahen b the garden of eden he came into it with a celestial body he helped to and brought eve one of his wives with him MICHAM d make and organize this world he is MICHAEL the archangel he archa arche worlwhom DAYSI LNCIENT holy men have written and the ANCIENT OF DAYS I about god god and the only goa our spoken he is pur father and our WE rie with whom VIE have to do every man upon the earth professing christians and non professing must hear ity and it uney will know it sooner or latera pney came here organized later they the raw material and arranged in their order the herbs of the field the trees the apple the peach the plum the pear and every other fruit that is desirable and good for man the seed was brought from another sphere and planted brier in this earth the thistle the thorn the br i er and the obnoxious weed did not appear until afterthe earth was after the ihen dha jhen dam end sve tha the forbidden vihen aam kihen adam and eve had eaten of t eive uhe the cursed he fru31t their bodies became mortal from its effects and fruit vd ien the virsia vohen che virsii rhien offspring were mortal vjhen uhe virgin len therefore their acy conceived the child jesus the father had begotten him ary blacy biary thechild
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H g own 1 ikene sj h3 was no 1 b tt n by the 01 y ohot his likeness ha ras r I begotten ty 14 h holy ghot in ol a A n a i ho is the father9 e fathers c i ho 1 the w r st of IL and cf the father fc lly he f ajar 14 and when he took a tabernacle was bo t ljar by 1 4 s father bogotton manner as the tabernack c of cain a i ri canner he tabernac in heaven after tho- same m ta I mairner oain tabernacles airner e and the of the sons and daughters 00 ann ar d abel dau te Is of cl 0 t and thl eve from the r 0 of the earthyP the 1 1 r s e a r I h v taberearthly earth th 0 tle ssep dohe father dahe cn n successbated nated r and nacles were originated by cohe fathe- an so on in sucee Jasep the l oril T 1 could te 1 you much zi ore about his pou nuch more ons I 0 ion I but wre 1 to I
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christ and exhaust all the wisdom they possessed all scripturalisus scripturalists and approved theologians who were considered ex 4e vahen exemplary for piety and education have un ae waken to exam md undertaken pound on this subject in every age of the christian era and after they have done all they are ob 2irned to conclude red obliged n by exclaiming great is the mystery of godliness SI and tell rid
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xee organized by three disbv tl mee yahovoh and lil yahovah an d lii chael Ya hovah michael these three forming a quorum as in all heavenly bodies and in organi ging element perfectly represented in the zing organizing ghosts deity as father son and holy Chost again they will try to tell how the divinity of jesus 0 hunana hunara humanity is joined to his humarA ity and exhaust all their mental o imo iko faculties and wind up with this profound language as deik soul soai soal scribing tho oal of man it is an iv oul the oai substancel nrimaterial substances immaterial sub stancel bogot tep bagot bagottep what a learned ideal jesus our elder brother was bogottep bobot sama same ahe garden of the rrarden brarden in the flesh by the samne character that was in ohe C eden and who Is our father in heaven now let all who ali ail may hear pauza nay heap these doctrines pauze before they make light of mar doetrines pause thom with them or treat them roii h indifference for they will prove tham rcii then ne damnatio their salvation or damnation 1 have given you a few leading items upon this subject I subiect kow ramembe romains to be told now remember remains r grat but a great deal more xe mains ever Chris Chrls twas chuis froi- this time forth and fop n christwas that jesus chrlstwas for christeas fom ghost I civill not begotten by the holy ghosts 1 rivill repeat a little will 1 was in conversation with a ce otain learned anecdote certain I I ro fessor professor upon uhls subject when 1 replied to this idea thid rofessor was this subjeel the holy ghost would be the son vaas begotten by it if dangerous to baptise and cone irm females and give c ive olve conf lve very danZ erous confirm baptize cive sive ghost thelm ghos the holy aghos to them lest he should beget children to t palmad be palmed upon the elders by the people bringing the paim palm ad ieso leso elders into great difficulties the yout heerts erts treasure up these things ian you he arts in tine bible in your hearts reasulre buto you buta rou but yoi you have read the th hi AIZs 1 have pold you to vaht I rold told roii roli thl thi roi vsht alc you no more r mora tose jou 1 have tote pou nora nore mat I mst not I &at have no t 1 nown vfaat you did i ead lown bat you aie conversv nt ath axa conversa ale 1th baft wlluet do the people in are conver but bat luat convorscit ith batt i7hat than I s kno about thl chrigfcendojii with the D hands y 1 no a a b ot t this bibie bible in their chrila otondo chrl0 thi ibie ible
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analysis of the discourse president young begins by stating that the character or nature of chri st has been a mystery among the saints and rriystery christ a source of conflicting views among the eide rs of israel elde eiders elders to that time he then briefly describes the individuals in he aven the godhead saying that our god and father in heaven and his s 0 n jesus christy were personages of tabernacle comparable to son christs christ mortal men but that the holy ghost was not so endowed he then states that the question as to the identity of the actual father of christs mortal body is often asked
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people would brand christ an illegitimate son brend braad god if the account by the apostles Is true concerning jesus t of parentage with this introduction brigham young gives his brighaa brighta tdefly matter briefly as follows views of the br hefly
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father begat the spirits of all those born garthe

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was the earth wa organized by three distinct persons El oheim yahovah and Ki chael michael elvheim eloheim Yahovah 16 physical the ph ysica11 body of christ was begotten by the same chrls chrisu character that was in the garden of eden and who is our father in heaven w A msteryhas been spoken of git it is evident that rsyatery hab has nit wit some thing brigham young felt he had revealed s6mathing of a mystery porn pon poc pen por per hocking something that was possibly new and shocking to at least a porm Soma thAng tion of his audience that it was new would appear from his s statement that christ1s character has remained a mystery in christas christ that it was possibly shocking this kingdom up to this day were 1 to tell you the whole dueh duch I is seen in such expressions as truthy truth blasphemy would be nothing to ity in the estimation of it n mankinds and mankind iet let the superstitious an d overrighteous of mankinds and lot all lot let mno may hear these doctrines pause before they make light of uno who eso est doctrin them or treat them with indifference for they will prove

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tony toay why not known for certain veay is it it president young die cussed the subject at all he himself never dle discuosed discussed bjeet ajeet place here is the placo aalde salde saide earlier that night he had stated sald said groat mysfcerios great you to teach graat myr gerics cs to your brethren that may terics sroat teri for

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to do with prompting his line of thought n and nd conflicting vietz that and a desire to put an end to the llcmflicting views coiflicting viewz d of the elders then too it should be recalled that tho saints recalk recali had been in utah something la ss than five years they numbered less but a few thousand there and in that period before the railrspanned acned oad s P anned the continent they enjoyed a rather isolated condition this tended to draw them together thus permitting a public exchange of ideas and expressions that many came to consider indiscreet and illadvised under later circumstances ill advised quest on the guestion tho parentage of christ is the problem question the commac commarded which commanded the attention of president young but in his explanation of ito he created a new and more enduring controit versy in regards to adams identity although we have listed hated eight questions with which we are concerned in our overall study thene is in reality but one fundamental wembradng allembracing thane thare there ail ali all embracing younga question in connection with brigham young what did he believe adammd the tha relationship to be between adanxmd god the father the adamid must n upo father of all those born upon this earth this question aust ut nass not be lost si ght of in the mass of material with which we aht deais desis deai deal will now deals
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without any editorializing unless it involved civic matters editorial izing on the newspapers part 1852 the particular session of the 18-02 conference with which we are concerned was reported as follows
and end the elders ana brethren assembled in the tabernacle which was completely crowded after the usual introductory exerpros pres young preached several sermons on various subinas cises ines ghost jects the holy gho t resting upon him in great power sze of the precious things of the kingngrs while he revealed some thi thl nars

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staro 1855 the millennial stare in november 1853 the millennial star star organ of the british mission of the church published the youngly youngls text of brigham young sermon in doing so it stated full our father adam the extract from the journal of discourses tournai may startle some of our readers but we would wish them to recollect that in this last dispensation god will send forth by his servants things new as well as old until man is perfected in the trutha truth2 may be well to mention here that the accounts of the address wellto it in the journal of discourses and in the millennial star are 5 cle3 entitled a rticle 1855 article5 identical in december 1853 an unsigned articles a tl clea
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the father and god of the millennial star giving a lengthy

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appeared in star mo 48 a 1 st ar vo above sentiment the little to the surprise of some of its readers and while the senmey timent may have appeared blasphemous to the ignorant it has no doubt given rise to some serious reflections with the more candid and comprehensive mind I adam is really god 1 and why not then if there are many and gods many as the serd tures inform us why scriptures ip scri seri lords
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not our father adam bo one of them did he not be then prove hi eif as worthy of that high appoallation as any himsolf himself elf luortfhy d upon other being that ever lived certainly he live usthe earthwe certain y ho e can except did so far as his torny informs xcept history unless godl the son of godi although the article acknowledges adam as a god in the senso he patriarchal sense nowhere does it actually affirm that h is begetter mankina also the spiritual beg ettor of mankind the tone and direction bes xcerpt 11 of the writing is well expressed in this excerpt weli weil osch esch ach in the patriarchal order of government each md every indepe ndent in lil indene adent lii ruler is independent iii his sphere his rule extending him to those below and not to thobe above hin in the same hid those beio belo unnum berod unnuxborod orders while the god of annumbeirod worlds is acknowledged uhlie order mile wile to be his god and father y adam still maintains his exalted song rvho i7ho position at the head of all those raho are saved from nong whoie the whole family of men and he will be god over all those hoie hole who are mado gods from among manew men As the great eloheim groat elvheim manee uen made cho nado nade broat ana and ard hla hia airrghty his is supreme and aldlghty over all pod children erd kingdoms kod so is ad adam as great a ruler orOZiod in his sphere over imler his children and the kingdom whdeh they possess the e nero created for adam and it wedo ereated ezo earth and all things upon it w nedo ero have arth edo was given to him of his father to dominion over it02 ita it2 re Keth fear bringeth tormenta regardless of the connotation brinngeth torments brinketh tormentsre cardie as bri adani put upon brigham youngs remarks concerning adama it is apparent brighamyoungs adamt
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vas theological that the doctrine was upsetting the theolo Sical equilibrium of tas some of the membership in england that it was having a similar iffear true america is also trueg under the caption giffear fear effect in la stqr abn etnar ag stnar bringeth torment the star agn n made reference to adam a week Bri ngeth
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n mindt uee apprehend pure minds wo aDDre hend that oven greatco mind even greater disturb the tn marodnd loan all troubles than these may ar a before mankind leam a 1 the thar arlda arise oublos arn ioan ali vyas lean ail was pav ticulsro of christ9I a incarnation how and by whom ho uras par c ul arc chri s t in cagnati on ho he hov christa carnati bo n bogotton the character of the relation chips formed by that gotton baglotto relationships badlotto act the number of wives and children he had and all other alldren mnich and elde enich circu2i3tancs hich elre otmcoz with which he was connected snd by aich he was tried and tempted in all things like unto man n nan vas whatever thina thira moy prove to be the facts in the casey it certainly ould may would wculd caso case mw ouid culd auld any a great degree 01 waes Amess on the part of any one of weakness ol wrea exhibit to indulge in fears and anxieties about that which he has no power to controls control facts still remain facts whether 1 revealedly revea ledi kept or revealedl revealed1 revealed devea ledl
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richards a member of the quorum of the twelve apostles arrived in england to assume leadership of the british mission nepal the london general conference in june 18 1854 a special neral nded atteanded conference was held in london attended by most of those involved in the missionary labors of tte church in great Bri taino the btl taine britain primary purpose of the conference was apparently to introduce vimary vdiom rihom the new mission president to those with rihem he would be work ouid ould ing and to bid thae ra the retiring pros ident 3 W richards farewell tiring president nissl onaries in the course of the conference various nissi fonaries were onaris called upon to report the status of their individual conference adamo etso three of the reports made reference to adams distrietso distri districts athe they cthe members of his conference district3 are lacking districts district3 waz as on one principle the last cat that was lot out of faith polygamy has been got over pretty well that the bag cloud has vanished away but they are troubled about adam our thede being ou r father and god thode is a very intelligent there azad alad and person investigating our principles glad who has been a ruid and great he p to the saints he has all the works guid can ozeat heip creat help .11 ll tlle last cat tile laat ecat 11 got along very we li with everything else but the baat tcat get weil weli well

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wa pries hood josepho josephs it w as oie ole entitled priesthood from adam to J oseph cle article arti artl D ad unsigned but since franklin 1d richards was the editor of star at the time it is quite likely that he wrote or the sta at least approved it for publication it said in part ra ohs lord god has ever withdrawn from father adam the adas ths if fro 1211.9adan has cgenesis hero here chwi hete cqwi authority heto bestowed upon him agenesis 12119 he not seen fit to make it kaom to the worlds while there unlie world unile is nothing to refute the whole tenor of revelation subthey supposition that adam has ccntinuedto to them continued the stantiates tho I coar ruie oear r yode over the earthy and control the destinies of coat rule bear beat iffe earths earth a from the time he poce ived poco roce never ending poster itye frona roceived received neverending posterity posteritya posteritye hi his boon boen been labour ing remission his co coraalssion in the garden of eden he has beon labouring diligently to fulfill the instructions thorp given him by theno tharo thero being theal bring the lord god concerning his dominions and to b ing them 111 uill aill under subjection to his will this iii be fully accomill every tongue egnew ecnew conmid ald aid plished when every knee shall bo end he Is the god of the whole earths then will the earthe fess that earth of adam be brighaiti haiti brighan Bri ghan words of the prophet Brig halti when speaking brichan cod ema uno yesil zed he is our father and our god sma mno end tho snd fully desil reali vjhoi ave raalizedhe hr a to doo having ood observed how now non nor only not doe 0 on 11t god with hve god ute hee a 1 a f 1r s t niada bec e nam became vhy vie uie inquire chy may not I adm the first nar becane tho imowlede 1 laou millions of his children receive the same godlike lmourladsa I
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THE LATER TEACHINGS OF BRIGHAM YOUNG LAMR TFACHINGS BRIGHV YOUHG

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man proces s exalee exalin discussing the groces by which men gain their exalem pnces8 president young said in part tation but 1 expect if 1 am faithful with yourselves that 1 shall I I I bith ure see the time with yourselves that ura shall know how to previa imoe amow pare to organize an earth like this wmow how to people that thid lmow bild earthy how to redeem ito how to sanc afy it end how to sane and hov sanctify eartho hov itwho live upon ifywho hearken to our itp glorify ftp with those it it e auns el so ouns counsels the father and the son have attained to thas point thia this already 1 am on the way and so are you and every faithmd I
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got cromi their crowns after men have even their exaltation and mado kings son have become gods boco beco the sons of god ars made of propasw icings mid lords of lords they have the power then of propa &id kings &id and lorda kropa gating their species s in spirito and that is the first of specie spirit pourer poorer power tyl roga- d to organizing a yjorldo viorlde r their operations r ith degard i regard o arz anize the element aryanize organis to tox tax aniza elemen arzanize elemental and then is then givon orgn it enee tho ornf4Myut 1 cn of tabeim elementax can they do cornn ance tho morgn coriirti eneo the anacles cornnignee he corl cori ignee t tebe iac yui xaI nqf uebe bac nacles how naf mt earts m an adam will have x7 havo tlley 27 navo tiley to go 0 tlislt aarts oarth they earth tie he blout to go thare and he cannot do vilt rlout eve yie must havo eve th3 re without tha cone nce core nee to commence the work of ge noration mad they will go into generation and corc cad ard the garden md continue to eat dad drink of the fruito of uld ald aid fruits natter the corporeal world until this groso matter is diffused them the sufficiently through their bolest lal bodies to enable then s eolest ial lai celestial pro duc due according to established laws to droduco mor tal berna cc tai tsi fo 1 their spiritual children for r b6 cor ror a key f or you inne faithful wi l become gods the will ba ome for this is
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these remarks and those made by him in his april thoe address are quite alibee in april he had stated that adam alikee alike e became and eve badams mortal by partaking of the forbidden fruit and bacams nd were a wre therefore their offspring wore mortal this parallels the aw lre e bove hove quote to the effect that those exalted become an adam or bov eve to a new world whereon they partake of corporeal food It bodies until their celestial bodiesm can produce mortal tabernacles aortal n for their spiritual children his qualification that godhood dam does not snot doesnot obviate the fact that he has a father and that adam doe is my father bears comparison with his earlier references to adam as our father and our god also of interest is his use he had used the same term celet lal of the expression coiet ial bodies celestial lai colethal colet coletial ip april in stating that adam and eve entered the garden with adara in 186 Twenty foud 1876 he is twentytpfour years later in 187 twentyfour four celestial bodies quoted as saying that the spirits were begotten born and bom and were educated in the celestial world randvere brought forth by andvere 2 bo bodies bodiess celestial boriess e in advancing the celestial body concept for adam and th eve brigham young was obliged to reject the dust of the Bri giam blam blan earth account of adams creation as given in genesis unis he this adans did as follows foi fol lovis you believe adam yas emde of the dust of this earth ras do ivas imde this
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though not believe vnourt it is supposed t I1l 1 t is so that I it ndinrp ray anderst lcy underst understandingo understandings understand ingo written in the bible 5 but it is not to ry un derst please you can write that infomat ton to the states if you stetes mal ion information statezv aal lon I decl arod deci apod I that 1 have publicly declared that 1 do not believe that aan 1an I portion of the bible as the christian world do 1 never christ ian 0 neved did and 1 neve want to what is the reason 1 do not I never deason I reabon ud because 1 have com to understanding and banished from my I mind all the baby stories my mother taught me when 1 was I vas a child1 child3 childe n managern manageri managern nan describing adam as the chief manager in the crea in tion of this earth he said penson he was the person who brought the animals and the seeds oecda seedb denson derson opid from other planets to this world and brought a wife with orld stayed hero you ruay read and believe what you him and hem here her foundmay ps ase as to what is pid waa was chat written in the bible adam wa s made from the dust of an earth but not from the dust of this eartho he was made as you aid 1 are made and no ald I ai d earth person was ever made upon any other principle principled apparently president young means that adam was provided with a em physical body through the normal pattern of conception cm bryonia bryonic development aad birth since that is method by which end sad eryou and 1 are made tryou you I a thib god the gather of our spirits and Bodie aThis was bodle father bodiese this bodieathis
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cas adu to the facts in the case aon the differ enco difference ail ali all be 1 2 cus christ and any other man that ever lived on or betu batu j om duom the days of adam until now is simply chiso adem from the adan adaa this thiso parhciv after he had once been in the fleshy and lived tho the fa ho fosh as we livcp obtained his gxalt tion attained to thrones vie lived exaltation exalt livev ga ned the ascendancy over princ 2 P alities and powers cand gained and principalities bained erea c- ea had the knowledge and power to emea e to bring f rth and arid r create ald brinn forth arld o he clid organize tho elements upon natural principles did this as eterr ity ascension zion clon ederr eternity after his ascan cion or his glory or his eternity and was gods vath actually classed with the godso with the binga who create thea ho with those who have kept the celestial laty whilo in then lats while the fleshy as pre prell fle2h flech and again oata ned their bodies then he was pro obtained obta commence cocnence pared to commence the work of creation as the scriptures yon the teach it is all here in tche bible 1 am not telling you a I word but what is contained in thatt bools hat that book wera were things eigne first created spiritually the father viere actually begat the spirits and they were brought forth and com eomisneed the worls woris work lived with livedwith him then he commenced thework of creating liv edwith em choly taberna cios precisely as he had been created in tholy earthly tabernacles clos this flesh himself by partaking of the course caid mater c3id H s garthy earthy organi zed organised orgmized sed his earth ial that was organized and composed this garth until bis system was charged with it consequently the tabernacles of zod fiom organi sod aiom sed his children were organized from the coarse materials of gerth garth earths this gerths earth
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bom the time came that his first born the saviour should come into the world and take a tabernacle tche father the cano himself and favoured that spirit with a tabernacle cane ed favour man do was zan as instead of letting any other ito the saviour wan it by the same being who bame banie banle begotten by the father of his spirit bane els eis spirits spl is the father of our opl rits and that is all the organic mc adt met difference between jesus ch ast and you and nge christ neb
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our ur reaffirmation of his belief that adam was oar god was express ad by president young in october of that year expressed some have grumbled because 1 believe our god so near to I us as father adarlo there are menny who am ow that doctrine to many 1m adario imo lmo adam eden edan bo true jas kichael garth inth edeza 1iehael ereka botrue betrue where was nichael in the ereza tion of this ea anth oarth creation earth did he have a mission to the e was arth2 artha earth he did where was he aund sond ajl ld he arl ari in the grand council sund performed the mission assigned him assignel N aws if i t should ha pen t hat wo have to p ay tribute e ows pay happen that ther therdo now thereo it a h to father adam what hiiilllating circumstance it would t0 that wmiliatin6 bed just wait till you pass joseph smith md after joseph bei bel peter twer lc us you pass him you wiill find petero and afteu you puss pass lets af twar will after fiill postles oost ies the apostles and many of the prophets you will find abraham t dost les say 1 oostles I have the keys and except you do thus and he will and so you cannot pass canno and after awhile you come to jesus and when you at length meet father adam how strange p ss will appear to your present notions if we can aass it 1ass lass sere say hene joseph and have him sayo sene you have been faithful here good boys 1 hold tha keys of this dispensation 1 will let the I I you pass then we shall be very glad to see the white locks of father adam but those are ideas which do not concern us at present although it is written in the bible this is eternal life to know thee the only true god and 1l ttl iti vyhom thou hast sent 111 jesus christ whom ahom t has we hwe already seen that brigham young believed that ine tle ile life was transplanted to this earth from other worlds and that man was the result of natural procreation this thought is
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conversant W ith his father who placed him up with w h on iot ve on this earth as we are conversant with cbiot earthly parents it son adam and talked came esme adan adams adans the father frequently oame to visit his elo children of adam wene more or ele qm m ivere an d walked with him and tche h am and adan were the hda ada ivene children as ss acquainted with thed grandfather and their 3s lith their with their great grandfather ther yare more or less acquainted vere i yere wede vede and the things that pertain to god and to heaven were as oxi ozl existence familiar muong mankind in the first ages of their ozi stence 4 on the e arth as these mountains are to our mountain boys he earthy
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B nham youne brigham young implicitly idozatif les adam a s the spiritual here BI pham youns i mp adaa ies edlam identifies adlam as ritual lal pv o gen i t or of lai s mo r tal of f sp 31 ng moue than that he impi es sp iai progenitor cen koue his mortal offspring mo e th an t ha t ho implies kore tai i ke christ was spiritually waz that ada-i iske chy st w a 0 s 0 i r 4tually and physically begotten like chr ohy scal
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ona ood ore father one god for in describing that god as the cr an dfat h e r and great grandfather11 of adams children and grandfather an a grandfather snd afat grandchildren respectively he must intend a physical relationwelaj wellj1 latter u ship between that personage and his son adam as well weil adat adal cay saint doctrine af arms that spirits do not beget offspring urms day urns arns affirms offs or ng lgxeat adams sreat therefore adems father could not be the spiritual areat grandfather of adams progeny but physically he would be the gre at grandfather of adam s mortal grand c li 1 dren A purely great ore grandchildren adan adams adaus adans spiritual interpretation would make the presidents use of the president teams temas terms grandfather and great grandfather meaningless and terns a misleading the statement is an apparent allusion to his pler earler ea pier remark adam and eve are the parents of all pertaining earlier

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parents of our sp brits spirits irits on january 8 186 1 865 president young told an audience gl ory ody that should god appear without glory they would not recognize bfcb3r he 1 the father of all is and yet him from any 0 tier man is at id atid above all through all and in you al 1 he knoweth all things all ali knovis knoils is thib pertaining ihis this pertain Lag to chis earth and he knows all things pertaining to thines bas has ti2 likewise 2 tia 1 mil 12 ons of earths like this if christ should millions nit nil his glory he would appear as any other man the president els eis veil hi audience if they would accept christ should he then asked his ther con4c num r tac 0ondit e h I seif to them une cad those dondit tonso conic conditions continuing under hi self himself deciare declare dacia t
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this line of ought rl rd and if you believed his ww da would you not wonder exceedweds wxds head ingly to hoad that our father and god is an organs zed being hoar hear organi sed organized mans tha nes res pact after the fashion of man s organization in every respect such however is the case
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describes the father of us all say1 ing I beheld till the thrones were cast down and the anbehold yhose garrent vas OGC snoy chose barrent tas cient of days did sit ib oce garment was white as snop and it like the pure wool his thronesnola like pupe was the hair of his head as pute euy ane the fa epy fl ame mthousand etco prophet f1 ery flame fiery fiane e t c flery flane ecco the pro phiet further says Mt housand thousand sanda sends thousands thou sands ministered unto him and ten thousand times ten at thousand stood before him ecce again and behold one etco etce eeme eane cene like ilke the son of man came with the clouds of heaven and came lite to the ancient of days and they brought him near before you may answer now who is this ancient of days kow rho him anscer pile pleasure I this question at your pila asure 1 have already told the people but the saviour would answer the question as to the appearance of the father of us all by saying look at me for 1 an the very express image of my father I days 2 ts in citing both daniels vision of the ancient of Daniel and jesus characterization of his father as being descriptions tuie tile the of uuie father of us all no other conclusion seems possible but that president young has identified the father and the saxe penson theno ancient of days as one and the same persone thene is absolutely saie person there or nothing in the way of a change in the continuity of thought OP of subject matter anywhere in the entire address to give one a 014 054 reason to believe oiw otherwise otherwlse in latterday saint theology herwiseo valid latter day dwi cie awl cle nt of &n s name are and tit33 fop the ancient 01 days an d adam ar el but two names or ti th s f or the ade for ol ome individuals yound one individual3 if brigham young did not intend for such an ane individual 3 vvnat vhafc to be assumed vanat possible reason did he have identification asbed assed using a we ll lmowq description of adam as he is to appear in weli weil lmow well amow for his actual meanthe latter days to describe god the father if Jra n was devious ane canplex e ara caadlex u r3 writer are caiplex the writ or is unable to understand and cai ing vas unabl knabl in
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same discoirse sane biscow salae discow later point in the sarae discourse se he remarked is as easy to understand those principles mneri the it opened by the spirit of the almighty as when to mind is is it first undem astm d one of the simple lessons in the childe s undez stm understand childts child9 childs reader elve eive e1ve here are some of the t eave twelve apostles listening to what 1 have to say they have heard me speak at length upon these I leneth rop ta from tine doctrines and they have been taught froy time to ti 0 f 0. 0 fron alc fop for years pasto the speaker this mor aind possessed a sweet lovsweat morning past sveet aing ing spirit and gave us a lovely d discourse but did not think of those things which have been told him tima and time these hin time again 1 would exhort my brethren to read the scriptures I and geek earnestly for the spirit of the almighty to underseek stand them and this great subject at which 1 have merely I 01 and glanced iwill appear to them in al0.1 its simplicity s and snd then ail ali all nd till 1

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another statement not unlike the proceeding one was made by president young two years later on february 10 186 1867t when in speaking odthe finsil gathering of israel ho saide salda 1 he saida of the cina ofthe ainsil sald said fina rina they will come up tribe by tribep and the ancient of days roill cone tribe wili eone tribel he who led abraham and talked to noah enoch isaac and koah jacob that very being will come and judge the twelve tribes coue you rebelled and you have been he lii say will of israel ill of the wicked 2 left to the mercies adam just when the ancient 01 days adv is supposed to have led of ol Isaac and jacob is not revealed by abraham and talked to tooisaac toisaac tuna edg ero of adam scrip tura 1 scripture scriptura the speaker there is no scriptural account ofadam having edo apeak speak 709 14 70914 time done so at any timeo tlde tide president youngs use of daniel 7211 as being descriptive of god the father would provide a so ouid ould solution lution as to his meaning since it would establishthe the ancient of days establish tie etcr3 ile OP adam a s the one who tle d abraham as et c 3 or led
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there are two discourses in this period both given in 3873 1873 183 187 worthy of especial referencoo the first of these is unreference doubtedly one of the most specific plain spoken sermons on tho youngo young identity of adam ever given by president youngs it is the more eam cam important because it came in the twilight of his life speaking speak ing of the reticence of the membership of the church to accept new truth he said hozy pleasedwe we would be to place those things before the hout how pleased horr hou people if they would receive themi how much unbelief exists them une minds of the latterday saints in regard to one in the latter 1 day ed unto them and which revea particular doctrine which I pevea revealed god revealed to menamely that adam is our father and G od god me namely nameiy 1 do not know 1 do not inquire 1 care nothing about ite I I I it our father adam helped to make this earthy it was created earth and expressly for him and af tec it was made he his compater after one nions came here he brought hlin with him of his wives wi th hisn and she was called eve b caude she was the first woman upon the as because adam eartho our father A I is the mm who stands at the gate earth ana ara and holds the keys or everlasting life arm salvation to all and 0 children urho a a his chi idren v haye or whoever will come upon the earthy icren rho laren vrho earthe earth Z have meen foun teen founds fault vaith by the ministers of religion been foundsfault with uit laith were reil reli rell grion ign oranto because 1 have said that they ignoranto I ignorante but 1 could I ignorant edlo edio not find any man on the earth who could tell me thia altho thib this though it is one of the simplest things in the world until 1 met and talked with joseph smithy snithy I brother in clarifying certain remarks made by his brothers joseph young the president said my brother said that god is a s we are ne did not mean dily s as rve lily he i yv he tho se those words to be literally understood H meant simply cimpl simpl thart in our organization we have all the properties in emthat our bryo in 0 tw bodies that our father has in his and that ay 1y morally the literallyape rally y socially 3 by the spirit and by who 11teraype mo raily we are his children nw do you think that god holds ate flesh childre and cm do the eternities in his hands tle ure all things at his e wm pleamazat is not capable of sending forth his own children piee plee plea mazat capabl pleaure ileaure this flesh for his own offspring where is ta onn t1 the and forming we say that father adam came ie lere mys teloy in this cane here and mystery cam heue telny can leue r lore fathe
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rho who raake make helped to maake the earth tho is he he is mic pel a hei hel iod dei del i ceel ye qo princa great prince and it was said to hi P by elchiz2 ao0 vas him an d and slohim slonim male rave w- earth H rale make great mys tiery mystery he what is the gr eat nys tiedy about it braat carne and formed the earthe geologists tell us that it was cannie fokmied vas for earths earth hotr do ta zey know they know agoo ho t2 jey here million of years ago fotr they lay nothing about lio but suppose it was hano what of it wab haro hero here ito ite lie a adan adaa found it in ada state of chaos unorganized and incon lda pleton ewe adlan pletoo ooo adam cane hed diege ego aduan came hedd and got it u in shape that would her shk diete 000 to commence herd 0 what up the ahkoe mystery n at ie bu iness great suit him none business bhat is hr thatt 1 pave seen about it9 have ule uie the at that I 4ave soen she mystery in this as zia ita bave sen it bda eles with hda acles or anything eiba is only to those who are mything eibe nid clos Ara rho aise alse elsa else niracles nir cios araeles aralles came ign oranto ignoranto father adam cane here and then they brought his ignorante cene cere care ignorant ibn adamvf gnp why onp nwhy wife ads well says on owhy was ada called adam vf he was ulfo ulfe xife ueli lda adm eife uell the first man on the earthp and its framer and maker he earth eartha with the help of his brethren brought it into existence heip 1 heid held who then he said I want my children urho are in the spirit sald saidv saida 1 once dwelt upon an earth world to come and live here I 1 was f aitho ul something like this in a mortal state I faithful aithf 1 received my crown and exaltation 1 have the privilege I I of extending my work r and to its increase there will be no 1 want my children that were born to me in the spirit end V he I tho world to come here and take tabernacles of flesh that their p2sce spirits may have a house a tabernacle or a dwelling pesce plce as mine has and where is the mystery now for mother eve nozi the evil principle always has and always will exists well a aerteun character came along existe existr ev the cert n and 0 a id t 0 mothed eve he lord has told you that you must oaid to mother eother mothe not do so and so for if you do you shall surely dig dle die daei but diei 1 tell you that if you do not do this you will never know I good from evil your eyes vill never ble opc ned and you may nay be opened fpc banow on the earth forever end ever ang you will never lanow and kno and snd live phe O 61s nd birdhat the irdhat ohe 0 04 ods amoo the devil told the truth what is the imoo hat nhat mystery about it9 he is doing it today he is telling one ozie oile ita it mixing them with a thousand errors to get or two truths anic aria arla and 01 then ol krother the people to swallow them 1 do not blame motcher eve 1 I I would not have had her miss eating the forbidden fruit for give anything in the worlfio 1 would not1give a groat if 1 could I world I ogive 1 not understand light from dankness darkness pres ident president young adds that man must know good and evil as nan Fres manazt 1now manant 1now speaksof the gods have learned it and he speaks of the reluctance of many people to accept the gospel because of a tre judice rssach accept prejudice ire
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c mew god aht rew reo i3 ia Ys to ry t 0 me there i s no rrystory to rc iu w sse to n e Th e r e vihytn c rry story t c ri c 1wncihc t 0 rL d or in hot 1 has revealed to chewe jeqrned r wilcuicr IL yd ihewe ff n jn 7 been has boon chr cugh c z f r hes beon chrcugh joseph fu ch he holy sheets or th 0 cplrit 0 f the loni no the r i t of t nf lori porfocfcl it Is azana have damec a things if 1 unccsfc&nci it h i anz nz I un er in P t j lamec me nyc isery nys no myc lvery to 7 mycisery myster

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carne came organizing fa edher adan earne to assist in or 6 anizing the earth father matcoer assis found an earth was out of the e crude matcaer la that was emde matcher ivas material bas mde natCoer ch upon made U 011 which the children of man could live oii oli after the as and fat hen adaa father edth was prepared brought adan came now 1 stayed here you erth was a woman fal her to him novi I am telling and thede there hede here nr some thing that many op you know it has been told you and man v o P sona sone thins a manv of son1 eth kno the brethren and sisters should understand it there was n understa- d a certain woman broughal to father adam whose name was eve broughl brought jas C u because she was the first woman and she was given to him uo behis wife to be his r tife I ilfe 1 an not disposed to give any further one sent present rmoviledge concox knowledge concoy ning her at presents thed is no doubt knovledge concerning ore dre oresent ther muny nuny nany but that he 1 the great and left many companions have not timo to glorious aft I dwell tizio time doctrine that pertains to this 1 upon neither should 1 at present if 1 had time shoeld I I tine he understood this whole machinery or system before he came to this I earth and 1 hope my brethren and sisters will profit by 1 have told them 2 what I the12
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president brigham young died that in it hough although there is nothing pertinent in his public remarks of ni that year there is one noteworthy reference to be found in the ue private journal of one of the members of the church living at prriva arriva nanaa nama narae nadae the time his name is L john nutfcalls and his account is in nuttaii nuttall nuttail e tempt temple templ with the dediea4 oion of the st george tempie the dedication connection
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temple to be completed by the church subsequent to the n from expulsion of the saints fro-i nauvoo illinois in 1846 nuttall nuttail nuttaii fron

speaks of meeting with president young and other leaders of the the church in the presidents winter home in st george utah
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gods entered i 0 an cgroement a b C u t nt agreement about oods 1t e d into 3r 0 0 ramg rang this earthsputting 1michael or adani upon l4 forming he e ada earths putting richael 01 ade lo these qic things of which 1 have been speaking are what are chieh I bic thines chich of godliness but they dil ternned the mysteries terL termed godlin esc 111 enable you vyhile in jeruto understand the expression of jesus made to ahile abile salem salem this is life ete rna1 U lat thay m aht know thee the eternal that they might eht only true god and jesus christ whom thou hast sento we sent selto hou v wore were once acquainted with the gods & lived with the a but rene them out then oul dul wa had the privilege of taking upon us clesh that the lad 11 iad privi ieee f esh flesh leee live s airi t o tonight have a house to dwell in VQ did so and forspill might oiri got all an 1 cama into the world not recollecting anything e cana and cane tha cm of which we had previously learn eld we havo heard a great geat have learned eve adar and aveo deal about adam an d eveo how jied they were formed & c bied sled sied come some coue sori in think he was made like an adobie and the lord breathed adebie has ifzlom dut e from vie into him the breath of life for 17 n read fron dust thou apt art art and unto dut shalt feou patum gsiq well he was adl flou arl shait deou ratum csic shall fnou return asic made of the dus to of the earth but not of this gan th garthe he oan oar dust eartho was made just the same way you and 1 are made but on another mado nado nade I r waken v7hen being vohen he oas eartho adorm was en immortal baing w henhe can earthe adorn wasen cas on earth he ada-a waden on an hento ours clo this ea r th had lived he earth earth similar had r and end received the priesthood and the keys thene of m id had thereof mid there aceived been faithful in all things and gained h is resurge action his resurre ction resurrection y and h is exaltation and was crowned with glory immortality his andvas andaas vith giar gicr fon such gods fo l waa and eternal lives end was numbered with the C cods for ilves snd TOS i foi ods fol lla thfuine ss and he ha d be crot ten cane came he became through his f ai hi be came had begotten faithfulness come all the spirits that was qsiq to mot to t this earths and av our co eve ow coronion mother who I s the motto r 0 all living bore 2v m rinion corinion wholts crymon 11 ait alt ali egia stial world end ts those sr cela spirits in the egla estial worlds and when this earth celestial ephim kili chae 1 who is was ovg an izqd by E s organized vas oag 1phim jehovah csic organi zed organised kilichae sed asic elohinu izad ci0 eve michael r1 pilege cic E veeili the privilege lon adana our connon F a t h cannon father adam adara adam had tle P I vilege adan & adan hadtke hadthe ion cai calthe work c f progression consequently came0 t O . cane 0 0 to continue cam to of can s ee nth a ildd commenced the great rao rk of forming t aberg i iorming aberm arming taberwork rth ald zork this earth and f and and when adam a qd n acles for those spirits to dwell in and ad nacles kingdom those thab assisted him had completed this kingdon our th at that came e ar t h he camo to ito and slept and forgot all anar beeamt e eano cano and aad snd forz 0 ali anal became earth ail adar beeart os es 1 like an ilke am infant child is said by moses uthe adam ike the lord ca lusada deep sleep to cane udon historian bhat and oon ooo caused a e eo cate upon jaat tho lisada doo baat from that that took his side a rib c formed tha woman tin t idam callriz and nd sve ed Z V o this should be interpreted that t1i e iian adam like tai lion d the ilan shoul bo intardreted een a 11 other amien had the aged witiln him to propagate his spec aeed zeed seed 0 the r men hin ali all bu ap yonan 17omqq ahn np the yomani ec eod jiec not sha oii ive she alla lyo the eed ives biec but tpr0du0q woman aha aliacc lye was a e e d but she i oiiives taken from the dlo dio P S no CIO produs ito doos does not produo ite consequently she ray z4 mystery day or I dowels of her fathera this explains the nap za y bowels side father moseys dark czay i ng in regard to 1t da m and eve adam & czar tegard sayings i n re czan d t 0 I 0 f 1103 a S dar h zzay adm an d of eve when placed on th o oath svere it nortu al boins with morld were svede this octh weve irrnortai eath but horld partaking of the upon parj ak ang fleshy bones and sindos asic sh barj 6ng bonos sinuos tsic fib fle fie fl thia ganden and garden arla rta chile the eaarta rjhs ua e i thle ga r de nar cultivating ald the gardenand of vhile uhlie earth rahs u1 fruits nd the ground their bodl s bec zie chang ea feoni tir mortal to griou theia bodies beane chanz from ix friou theiz bedl becne charged froni lir & coursing through courzns r throua h their veins as mort beings with blood courzis throda nortal aortal was no to under transgression until wes not unider trans gre sst on uz 1 if a ssi ahe ac ti on 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rho cho eegot4 en father of christy who is spoken of as the only ee gotten christ son of god brigham young implies that christ is the the only be gottcent of adam in his divinity gottent gotten got tent d zdan in other words when adan begat physical offspring ho did so in a fallen state of mortalhe feilen failen fellen ity which precluded the transfer of divinity or immortality to that offsprings But in the case of the savior such a offspring but e tsue transfer of divinity could take place because adam and eve tsu without actually suffering a physical deat ad deatlsad returned to

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having regained his and divinity end immortality coulbo in begetting christy declare could couldo christ him to be the only begotten son of it some two years later under the dateline of thursday young yarch 6 1879 nut atall made another reference to brigham youngg s yatch ay march 6y match nul nuttaii nuttail nuttall teachings osl ed csi qic serveral god was attended fast day meeting asi CD ser veral csicd spoke and dic bic our father & qic presented attend the question as to adam being 1 explained this matter as 1 got it from prest B qia qiq I I i cd young and asl 1 understand it this question has been on the as I asi of the brethren since bro wandel mace minds of ser veral serveral go art spoke on it about a month 030 and ard oato ago aro & gave a wrong imcaic pression qia 1 spoke to correct him set the people qi3 I giccorrection he accepted csicd2 dight which right rightwhich 030 o30 oll oli
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the answer to this question would of course depend upon weathe actually meant to saye say undoubtedly they ha ve have whathe been misinterpreted by some persons the very fact that there exists differences of opinion as to his meaning proves that t tha for certainly not all of these conflicting interpretations are correct it is true that the original diacou me of april 9 discou discourse 1852 could be taken in more than one way and if he had never 182 mentioned the subject again his actual meaning would be a moot point however he did mention the subject again many times thene there fore therefore the likelihood of misunderstanding him in view ot llklihood liklihood of his subsequent statements through the years becomes more remote bome this is borne out in the comments of others friends youngts and enemies alike giving expression to president young unen unopinions as ibor instance nuttall did the writer was unan for far nuttaii nuttail mid nid any reprimand forth c cin srom brigham young por h reprimsnd forthcoming from ehl gham dom for able to find edrin sn d odt from bri aham fi ort 1 to ae a zC 6 significance of this opinions ascribing such C anic ns to himself the S ai lnic aest mane lest malp be manp 6est manifest presently will o as misinterpret but perhaps it was not so much a matter of mizinterpre slon flon soria times tat shon a it was of opposition sometimes opposition assumes tation as misunderstandings the guise of misunderstanding the concern expressed by the 2863 2853 183 special conference of 2.853 the english missionaries in their and he reassurances of frankiin D richards s n d the editorials and franklin fraklin styc va sweo defending the doctrine tia I star v8 styr def ending aa s in th e lit i 1 e nn i 2a c n the millennial steo ali ail all doctllineall ar ti artic3s artices i
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samuel diary of samual whitney richards we read ulach tues harch 14 bues march 11 186 hanch oozm ooza n evening with the regency in the upper room of the eveninc presidents office exa abing gsicd the spelling for the oza aiing csic3 ezaitiing csick polling now books in the D Alph abeto A very so do alphabeto convoc conversaalphabets alphabet serious convoy sa rious oraon orson preste took place bete ween prest B young and opson pratt between presto bo tion oo po 0 P was difeectly opposed to the prest preat 00 upon doctrine directly views and very freely expressed his entire di2sbelief in disbelief thorn after being told by the president that th 1lngs were things so and so in the nar ie of th lordo he was flura in the nale na the dord naie lord name firra position that the frests word in the presi s of the lord presy did not was not the w word of the lord to him the prest ord would ever be adam to believe that orson learn by experience peri ence the facts discussed but every other parson in jo a10 the room would if they lived faithful J M grant amasa lyman W woodruff albert carrington eilas smithy elias smith ellas smitha & robt L were presenta 01 campbell wero present1 presenti 1 viere present ol of the context 02 the above entry gives us good reason to believe ome come cone ms tho the that doctrine in some way concerning adam was thle cause of yoag praat pr&tt seen the disagreement between president young and orson pratt the bet zeen betseen presidents remark that he did no t believe that orson would not president n ever be Adam obviously an adam would indicate chiso beadam beadah thiso this comments on the views of a president younga public C young1s omments youngl vles vies pratt would indicate that more than one very serious con1857 versation was held between the two men- in 187y brigham young denounced the view of our philosopher brother to the god spirit fills universal space effect that godts fountain of 3 and that every particle of it Is a holy spirit and that that spirit 1 allpowerful and allwise full of intelligis all powerful ail all wise ail ali alloise and possessing all the attributes of all the gods in ence 12 president young added that orsor hyde had advancaddedthat eternity theory nuch ed much the same thl eozvy to joseph smith and that the prophet 7
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the president then went on is not true sa to reprimand the absent pratt rather severely tho verely windom tha combinod combined with all the knowledge and wisdom that are combi nod conbinod person of brother opson pratt 39111 he docs not 1 h doe 0zs on featt odson peatt in the yot yet know enous h to keep hlo foot out of ity but drowns enough hid hio his it he underhlma seif hima self in his ovyn philosophy eve ryti ne that oum ove overy every hinely hira zelf everytime hirazelf ovin ouin everytihe doos hinelf treat upon the principles timeho does not evereti takes to that nas er under stando thel ho eves about to leave here for his wad understando then he ewes understands hera izaaerztand nad present mission opatt had been sont to washington D C dyatt sent dratthe made a solemnpromise mine see fp mado to publish the sec D nado sem soleinpromise that he sea principles solemn promise not fully would not meddie with meddle meadle which he did rould u mdoratand but would confine hiela to jhc fiest thc rist adarztand l the fist hielf lo such first prjlne ip1es of tho doctrine of salv& tion as were principles salva saiva the viede viere salvation prea chad by brother josoph Sr aith and tha apostles but preached jozeph sraith joseph craith the slilth we the first thing that vo see in his writings he is dabbling he with things that ho does not under standr his vain philosunderstands understandi standi understand ophy is no criterion or guide for the saints in doctrines doetvine same discourse pres ident young spoke of the future president e san in this sam fres time when the saints would have the privilege of commencing tire wcrk the wark that adam coen ced on this earth and of being an adar commenced earthy adam on earth earthe orem odea in 1860 orson pratt did make a public recantation of certain of his views this quote is from an account revised by him and the council11 council T expressed thede views 1 did most sinI I those these the time 1 at with vere ich cerely believe that they were in accordance loh the word I wab dely zu I sincerely ppooe raly ppoole of god 1 did most since deiy suppose that 1 was justifying the t ut ho but 1 have since learned from my brethren that I trutho soma some of the doctrines 1 had advanced in the seer at sone I naturally being washington we e incorrect natura 11y baing of a stubborn beins ashington were halving alts aits oosftion and having a kind of self will about me and disposftion disposition moreover supponiinrt really and sincerely t na t 1 did undersupposing that I vas nts aoi ana what true doctrine was in relation to those po ants points tas stand wint 1 did not yeel to yield to the judgment of my brethren I feel were in errors 2 error error2 but believed they he funt lier says that none have the right to go contrary to the iler further furt ller n and 1mi god requires the sa 1ami s iv4s of the v le saints viei7a living oracles that vieira
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s var lous ca21nz to sustain alil of the autho pities in their vac ious callings various authorities ir sill siil all sli sii om ehing pratts closing thought reveals something of the troman dous tremendous effort his renunciation had required 1 do not know that 1 sha01 be able to carry out these I shall I shali oue out I views but these are my present determi i nations deterniinations 1 pray 1 nay per forr 1 perform imay I may inay that lmay hare the grace and strength to pen form this 1 f veak weak 4he s e batters voak I feel exceedingly woak in regard to these ma tt er s thesa iatters eel recanfca under the published account of orson pratts recanta4w tion is a statement by the first presidency in which they cite pratts ideas considered by thom to be false or questiondo them sane of F questionquesti ondo vie abie able among those delineated we find ble with regard to the quotations and comments in the seer n as to adams having been formed out of the ground aed and adam s ted & c thol from thoe dust of the ground the is explanation at it iz deemed wisest to let that subject remain without further re present for it is wl itten that we are to receive line written upon 11 ne lsne according to ourprogresses capacities and the n attending our prfaith Said ogres 2 circumstances viny the first presidency made the above statement appears why obvious 0 0 vious in the light of president youngs belief that god we ocreated man as wo create our chit dren for there is no other tcreated chil created children process of creation in heaven on the earthy in the earthy or tbs garthy earth earth under the earthy or in all the eternities that is that were unde earth beg ft3 or that ever will beo ftc bea prattt aoda again five years later orson pratt was ao dn under fire from the president of the church we have persons in this church who have preached and pub iffe ho era am are 112hod doc trinos on the subject of deity which eua r true liahod doctrines lichod doe F acler or on pigatt has written extensively on the doctrines 33nely dacier oreon pratt exten 33 icier icler dicier orson P Nely when upon ehen he oon oll oil this churchy and u don this particular doctrine c1aurch oartieuie he is acquainted which anid wrill es enid speaks upon subjects with whicn erld erid hich aich arill writes arid ro soner bat zhel he thel undez ands he is a very sound ir azo neAr but w en ihae and undem azonear rosoner then 6e rosaner understands rstands rst
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Q dam made ol adam being rmade of the dust nade adan in regards to 1dan being amade 01 tl ia dast of the earth exactly s 4 had appeared in the deseret yess five years p f lve as it h d lyo iyo previouslyo lweviously lt previous ft the seer the great first cause and certain articles by orson nae prattt P at t on une cae eoy spirit were dizon ned by the churchy ali dodisowned hoy the holy church lii ali all y y st presidency before ql inal ctrinal ideas were to be submitted to the fipsr al inai fi or baing being published cv the loss of priesthood might possibly folmi ht oos sibl y belne beine miht oossibl 1 oz for only one man was authorized to receive revelant aon for ion low 1on I revelat lon revelation ghen brigham the church Bri ghan young orson pratt accepted the decision of the autho atias keople people authorities and asked the oeople to destroy his questionitias wings as suggested by the first prebi dency 2 uings presl writings able writmings presidency Fresi
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opinion that the answer to this question is a categorical no there is not the sll potest slightest sil sli phtest 4 evidence from brigham young or any other source that either fron 185 9 182 original remarks on april go 18120 or any of his subsequent his statements were ever misquoted in the official publications of

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oh e church the chur eh eriinently the orson pratt affair makes it erainentoly clear that imy t lan very presic tent young was vewy much concerned Ithat nothing chich he president ver vhich bresic l omul be p r amul crated by promulgated considered to be incorrect doctrine should nor- was orson pratt the only any of the ch txch authorities tach church charch one whose errors were attacked there were others also we have foolish eteens cowa cora coratend I contend Ele ers and 1 have had to corn tend time eicens otar olar tima time azain st thein foolish doctrines e one of our after tinio against their
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nost in tell ag ant apo s tl es in ono 0 f his dal s cruzs e i 1 of t the t intolllgont apostles v one of hio d1l ccuzs loft hlo discourses lort teli 1g dnt people ernt direly in tho dark riall norrrzrd to jacob and esau danh rlth ner ror entirely und eau irely ritll regard regn recard neven and he novor nevor snd ho nevon understood the diC ference between foro knori never knorl beti dir difference bett reen edga ledga ledge and fone orda n alion fone kno l edge and foye ordlna knowledge edge knovledge fore ord1 fode ordination foze ordana foreordination fore kn fore are tiro arc ti7o distinct princl D ies and again 1 have had to agala I tion anc tiao Q principles drincl les oend cont bend arra dinst what Is called t4ht itbaby resurrection dotaht baby coni vend arta inst contend against the lias been ctrine vhich as ilas bt en taught and indzdc eq by some Is has beon t 1 na 1aich indulged baich chich one of onda most absurd do ctpinet s tha t can be thought of nost olte olle oile 01 onde MOS t the nos doctrines that H a vi ri o- llad aam having had these foolish doctrines to combat 1 am not aln I arm willing that the idea should possess your minds that the body ils neil ther here nor thero and that the work of salom irs neither Is sal1 spiritual1 vation Is entirely spirituals spiritual youn your s youngs attitude toward the in the light of bright errors of others and in view of the division created by his remarks concerning adam it would be stretching ones credulity to the breaking point to believe that he would have reto the contrary we mained silent had he been misquoted could expect him to be rather watchful of the manner in which his addresses were published in the official organs of the church that he was may be gleaned from these comments by cone him conc ernins his discourses concerning 1 say now when they are copied and approved by me they aro I are as good scripture as is couched in this bible and read the sayings of him read op if you want tomind o revelation out any special comand to P r qo knows the ind of god wv t who without one man to go here and to another to go yonder or to do thereo2 thereon that this or thalo or to go an settle here or thereof 1 have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the I en n oture scripture children of men that they may not call it scri coture lidren ildren the privilege of correcting a sermon and it semon seaon lot me have let as good as they deserve the people have une oracles the is go d 4 D t this go to the people with thus 0 god continually 0 of ood let do not obey snaith you will see salth the lord and if they its youwill it louwill them3 the chastening hand of the lord upon thema young ue P n es ident youen c did not hesitate to cite what he conpresident yourn C resident hesital esident 0 zson pratt odson pral to be the false ideas of orson prat it by chapter and dared dered faise sidered si
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these was the prophetloseph smithy the martyred first president of the prophet joseph smiths presid en t smith Chiarch church the year brigham young died he said prom the first time 1 saw the prophet joseph 1 never pron rn sov I I SOY fron fro that caa me frona him concerning the kingdomo eca kingdoms kingdom a word king domo kirgdom kirg dom oale coie oaie fuca lost today and this is the key of knowledge that 1 have to day that I 1 did hearken to the words of joseph and treasured them I anay askins up in my heart laid them away asking my father in the aujay hearty when name of his son jesus to b ing the i to my mind venen needed ehen bring thei thel zue 1 treasured up vue things of god and this is the key that the I 1 hold towaay towkay I today 1 was anxious to learn from joseph and the I god3 spirit of goda on the same occasion he said that he had taught many things not he found in any of the standard works of the church but that when lound gnost it ghosty ii end he had spoken by the power of god and the holy agnost i is I h truth it is scripture and 1 have no fears but that it will trul
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these principles they have not been revea ledS declared or revealed ledr explained by any other man since the days 01 the apostleso Apost leSo he of epla ined an apostles ol ieso youngts second source of brigham yo gt s revelations is of the coursep god him selfe that is likewise manifest in the forecourse himselfe seife himself coursed going quotations from his addresses in so far as the source of his views on adam are concerned it might be argued that these canne carne also came from the same two sources joseph smithy and god at smith umrx was to these sources that Brighana young ascribed his hara brigham yolumro least it knowledge of the subjects and that he felt that he had revealed more than had previously been enoma information that went bem beknoma yond what was then understood regarding adam can also be gathkdan regardingadam adan ered from various statements on his part of which the following
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before summarizing the beliefs of brigham young as the saes writer sees them it will be well to cover a few preliminary but important details dedalis first it should be recognized t that the hat workings innermost wodkin ss of a mants mind are to a degree sacro workin nants mas n S an c t are I janct being s ov they ar e largely hidden janat be i in g so th e y arg 1 sr g e 1 yhidder fron the probing eyes I whidder thez

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long distance ively using a certain amount of longdistance psychoanalysis in an effort to discover what he really meant to say would not only be foolhardy for one who is sometimes none too certain lot what he himself means to say but would be a violation of the haac hafc h haft hatt accepted procedures involved in a study of this kind the more ive 1ve subject ave one becomes or the mope subjective the material subjective mode moue raore one is dealing with the more precarious and indefensible are the conclusions arrived at the writerhas attempted to be as writer has ob factive as aspossible possible objective lactive the jediate diate diata in an effort to gain the iinnxealato proximity of tho mediate e gare tputhp ceptain axrbitrary rules of procedure gade set up to ere pzrocedu gede certainl arbitrary un certain rbitrry certai 1 they 70 zed nev should be ro gers aed anitine guico the uniting of this thesis gullo alitine referred sule suir sulf

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differentiation between one particular god and the other gods who combine with him to make up the one himto all hilto god in pvlnci ole Is essentialo principle lo nie oie essentials essentia where vhere brigham young speaks of there are many instances v hene here nd god on tho other as for instance cn d adam on the one hand cos ces the dar iastan cej th far instan 1174e we believe that he m de adam after his own made ada when he whan ho said our god possesses image and illroness as moses testlfleso likeness ili lil testifies as heardby a body and partsy and was heardby adam and eve walking in headd by talking heard parts dartsy 1 ands andt garden day ardon the g arden in the cool of the dayo and sarden who ask ash tha question bho she 1lorld the bold my in vain as r the 0 ue stion eho are vo 7old sono sons but the gospel tells us that we ar e the sona and daurphtera aa we aza the dau satera shtera ie are soree bay azo or th god whom ft we souve some say aro ara elli dren serve sone cay children of that so we are and they are gho children evo oc ad ai and eve a no tho arc bhe ade he ii of adil aati P o m eoavenly adam adaa adsa 0 cor hoavenly hea orr heavcanly of om heavenly father we are a ll the children of aldam ail ali Pyu nar all praag of him ahosidam ort Hoavenirley evo eve vho offpyu nfr ar c toy b lej anc and syo and t hoj ano ro arc the boffl prlag thoj and offl off is dvolls dvolis in the heavens th highest intelligence that hcave1 tha aa owes inveil ence inteil heaverzig ne owie owle aill oils anywhy 16h s t via hava 1a ow1s ft3a ofo aillells anyi&ere that e have knowledge of drolls anywhe ells drills
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verses as well weil weli 1n alquit y lquit t2ruh refuse ar ovil ovll choose good hate iniquity love truths evil pa1 e aone done I eli t h s our fathers havo cone before us T do not paroie th ou 5r f atahers hav core ber ole this oar ohers hii hil ua all u1 ar 2 no or his fatheo 1 do not 701 0r fathel I ariy rth fith arly rih fath ad ticularly fthzr heto 0 apos ticul atly mean aith oco abpahani or aso oce tho the ablahani tioularly mae abll aahasvn hops cso tile pophet OP ocularly titularly me ab cularly 1 rac an oud fathers who have pop hato been exalted fou for tieg but I rae ouf fa hors ho troy y have all ey e trey years pevious to 1 time previous ali of lions adas lllicas
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were wer ver were vel believed that beise also belse vod the t these gods vere e of one patriarchal linebelie vele viontetkier adam is age OZ t1species bs or qpocles as h exprooses it herg hero whether he expresses here species wa popo popoonago paro onago pars the peraonasa that wo should consider our heavenly father or mystery not is considerable of a mysto ery to a good mazny 1 do not siany slany I went hvg ca a lon mattew nocent hag that is it is no matter whether we care foi cere for one mom mattea matte& 0 a e had kant ho har zatter her e cede lor iz lent Z 3 sze e to C 0 Is god or whether yis aa j asje 0 consider 1 0 sr sje els athe 02 3i2 sis &a all zll gran bather gra lather for in eai shed c a sa vra are orae speciez of one n 1 grandfathery grandfathers one species 1ather olae eli eii sher casa e edther either elther celse ather 2 jesus christ is also of our spec les tta thus ou spee ies tt2 familyw and famil yand species familyand ong brigham young impliea that to recognize oneg is to recognize implied implie3 recognise ones rocoznize one all but even so he makes it clear in other statements that one god to us 3 and he is tour father who made our there is but us for he is the only wise god tend to him we owe allegiance nd we he has to him ue owe our lives hehas brought us forth and taught behas brourrht us all we knowo we are not indebted to any other power or god knowd know i141 blessings for all our great blessin gav an article in the glennial ab ar probably written by Hlennial hlennial sb hien S miosion president micsion pres dant richards the british tvlis8ion pues dent at the time gives a rather lucid picture of the relationship of the gods oher aher to one ano pher and to their own offsprinrg5o it merits compariomi offspring another elgham son with these statements by brigham yo czig on the same topic tzig br lgham young

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of his own ppogeny2 0 vn progany2 younrrls be those these statements should also bo compared with brigham young concept of the mo dus operandi of godhood as expressed by him modus ne end and quoted on page eighteen eightec therefore wrhen brigham young says that both adam and eve and all the pest of riianlrind are the children of the pedt mankind manlind rest manlind redl real
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neela whichthe existe neelp rule and existence and by which the present race of man on this earth has also come into being as children by virtue of species cles aies patriarchal the pat archal relationship of the spe cies of that highest 114 aguin this different tatton again thid differentiation between the prinintelligence tation thi intei2i 7cknce duaei godhood and that indivl duacl thet duail the ciple of godhoodand thex individual personages comprising and o subscribing to that principle will the writer feelso resolve suboaribi ng feels feilso young1a youngja the ceasing conflict in president youngts pronouncements

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concerning adam detached detac careful dejac n ed study of his available statements avail abe aba as found in the official publications of the cha ch 2 will admit oha chu church charch of no other conclusion than that the identification of adam with tho adan god the father by president brigham young is an irrefutable brecham bricham hiie fact s uhile there are a great many of his expressions which chile hile may appear to contradict this they fail to reveal his views on this particular subject feith the clarity objectivity and absence of equivocation which would permit them equal weight with then lpher wialpher pronouncements bast best his other at besto it may be said that they basto moue more noue becloud his mo e direct statements but in all honeslu honesty it must hinesl we cannot thenn be admitted that they fail to actually deny them then osa ignore or subvert those of his ideas which were expressed in thosa th ose undeniably undene ably specific terms in order to just iffy and sustain justiffy undeni justify uncertain interpretations of hisintent in general ones the his intent evidence upon which the writer has based his conclusions is convenav twofold external and antem al this division is for conveninternals intem eternal ience in presenting the material and is admittedly an arbitrary andis
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jin ah h e a 1 C e n t young9s specific rin 6h president vo un s z n e 0 C tcltcrionts chich he apparently ila a tc n rhich tr J y inac nta ed to b taken literally smee ho fa eted ro modify trar elin be a on arar elir he failed 0 n c d 4 fy intended intc eli ell ail since r ther or to indicate that they should be understood any thel acly 0 t ha r wap othen way other othar waly s the statements of others both before and after his stcaterilent death4 indica abins that he was taken literally y by friends lbins literally desti indicating rait rall literall lite rail mles and enemmies alike nies enemies 6 the consistent pattern of his viet rie bands viers not only irn ree gards in regards bards to adam but in the acquisition and nature of godhood in general the internal evidence deals exclusively with the comments adam and mas brigham adev of Briczham young relative to acev andmahls ultimate possible briczham buld butu brioham nas destiny in indicating what he felt adam did president young adan edam vas zdan adan revealed whom he thought adam was the activities of adam and tho identity of adam being inseparably connected A comparison the sura aarion summation of the april 9 1852 sermon or its suma aation on page eighty eight adril young s with the following summation of brigham youngs major ideas f ol lowing dwi dol del as expressed in subsequent discourses is invitedol invited invite rnai eva dences inte nal ev4 internal evidences 1 after the faithful have become gods they will prepare became becane villi b ot spiritual and physical bodies for their offspring uh both J the latter being done by having them go to an ear h ead earth wm d eat of and corporeal food until it is diffused if fusedable guf f ciently through thed celestial bo CLI es to on abie onable 1 enable sufficiently suf bodies their I ther mig nio duee the mlo 0 eto pro duce mortal tabernacle s f or their spiritthenueto produce a 1 children ual e h 11 d r e n god 2 go a the father af ter gaining his godhood and begetting ood after it h s sp 1ritual c n 14 dren ccmenced I his spiritual children conimenced the work 0 1 creating ritual acles e by pa ytoaking of the of So partaking earthly ta deorr tabernacleso earths tabernacle system 0em coarse material wn til his sys bem was charged with it until thus els childrents3 physical bodies were made odthe of the his childrents .3 children eis childrens ofthe e ethl s materials earth9s rthl earths who 3 adain was a resurrected man urho had obtained his exalthat tation and who desired that those children th at were desire deltra

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IV

THE VIEOVS OF OTIMRS OTHERS VIEWS

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with the passing of brigham young the subject of adamts adam adamas
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identityy beyond that revealed in the standard works of the identity churchy was seldom discus cedo to be sure discussedo sur there were some who sedo di cussed suie discussed dicussed dur dui church as commented upon it but for the most part their remarks tended to smrt the matters oray indirectly supporting or challenging matter only smut natter onay shirt skirt shut youngo views the kieris of president youngq indeed it had been much the vieris koh kah lah zsa before his death with both his opponents and supporters anie deaz deal dsa wene were largely remaining silent at least publiclye so silent eno ero iyo lye public lyo publialvo ede they that with the exception of heber C kimball orson pratt e and a few others among the authorities we are uncertain of th Eoeven evan con tudy century ever ith hoeven alth thele hoever with their true convictions however aith the turn of the cen tury ous oas vaz ioas coine fire caina the church carna under fide from var ious protestant minis pers various feds loas nxinlsters ninis reds fir fit among othee and mormon hatersn for amon gother things its belief in the amongother baters haters other bother am brigbam youngs adan deity of brigham younge it is then that we f adam find cuch baigh biigh young ind such W as charles va penrose speaking forth in defense of the v4 defence leaders 01 pickal ol churche alth this church nith thi picial official doctrine of the churchy aith thia much said the thl j of others who spoke with sufficient directness pro and vith con coz will be considered a asan elgham eigham 002 again as in the care of bigham col vill bo consi derod cala caia ulii yount n7 you na avold youels offort has baon m C de to avoid the use of dobala yio and yourls boon ade cde hio debatable debala blo vold void materials inconclusive ma terai materal cateral teral
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was kimball wa a counselor to voung brigham young in the first nasi dency and iq youhg nesi presidency d seems to have been razidency razi va y very close to htniy both in spirit and viewpoinc1 in his book ha m viewpoint y goez 20 zau sugse the roclry mountain saints stenhouse goes so zar as to zugr est zuar roclx rocla sugs8 far was rms that kimball wms the source of brigham youngs ideas concerning kinball u as
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ozpeisnce thab there is but one ths4 thene that tlene god that pertains to this people and he is th god that the thia m cn che tho pertains P e ains to t hi s e ar h dhe f irs men no that f ird t man r to nedeem this earth the first ren irs first oen onn sent his o son to redeem the opid redeem his tl ze orld orid ran bl takony ouda oud brethren his life vas tal men his blood shed that our iras bakony das tai ren lethren be ethren night nigh remitted that son called twelve men and sins might rami eted tted ins ordained them to be apostles and when he departed the donn keys of the kingdom were deposited with three of those kinn dorn wene C dora I petor james and john 1 janes twelve viz peter jaines tho the following year november 8 1857y he said 187 l87 now breth- en you have got a spirit in you and that r brethren tyas was ras s vas created and organized ryas born and begotten by wad organi zed uras sed ryas spirit vad our father and god beyore we ever took these bodies and bedore vre before ere hincy hiniy him these bodies were formed by elm and through him and of ela will as him elm just as much as the spirit was for 1 lil tell you I lii phen ill Tjhen he he coimeziced and brought f odt h api ritsy and then then ort spirits coexa ced coexaced forth apiritsy apirits orth oad and brought forth tabercoriniencod wouk he coen oed completed that work ho coencas cad orl coencad ori mchose those nacles for fchose spirits to durell int 1 came through him duell in I both spirit and body god made the elements that they are anything2 anythings made of just as much as he made any things 2 anything ce such were the viets of heber C kimball as to adams identity manifesto similarity to those of president young is manifests manifest their W wio 17 vio 170 phe via Phelps othis early church leader said nothing This phelpsthis conclusive in any public addresses of which the writer is evere however the following extract from a poem entitled ff he thirtyfifth the spirit which h wrote and recited at the thirty fifth 186 semi ar semiannual amual seul annuel seni annual conference of the church in 1865 may be indichis ative of hi a views 0 may the saints be beperfect b perfect wao was As god our father w as unen he got bame to eden when baek bade bael zot back 3 laws3 by hed celestial lsawsa helawse her
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o the poetic medium to a sno as cas elisa give expression to he r feelings end beliefs was eilza R snoa fee linSs her fcalingj and feelinss s an outstanding early mormon writer and one of joseph smithy cited citer smith riter salth saith a ra are vive3o there plural vivero mere are two poems written by her which aue of vritten britten vives thare rives adams particular inc erest since they reveal her concept of adar s interest sinc poc30 ttl oln oin position and strongly suggest that she shared the views of itioin vies vles iti president young herewith is an extract from the first of presiden ivins ers to eps these entitled adan4 our father eve our mother adana adam adaa tend jesus ohr s ohnisty our christy 0 elder brother and jesu chr yng my are to ny understanding aho yno sho rno shon my hoart responds they aro my omi 1 he y ato ate heart thex are
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to stand as adam and ac eve tho he ad a dam the head an inhari4noan c koan now f 0 rm I d earthy new loun of em inheritancee a no w formed 0 th nowformed and to gho spirit race civo mortal birth thein hedv montai montal their heir give thoni experience in a violild libie this thodi vorld liiie horld liie llie ilie thon 1 lead them forth to everlasting bliss tinen tinan tho tho1 thon then then opo iiinld w cro odo crowned with galvration and eter lal joy salvation vith salv eted lai eternal tii whone whore fall perfection dwells wit out alloy tij where without oerfection the inference thab the poetess regarded adam and eve as resurthat beings beine and parented rected belne s who had gained their exaltation andparented offspring prior to coming to this earth and fai lir is quite falling fal fallar fallir she will be referred to again unmistakable orson prattthe writings of orson pratt do not fully Pratt The support the poetic claims of eilza R snow non the expressions nor eilea eliza elisa northe hanx Brighani youns prates pratts difficulties of brigham young and heber C kimball young and with president youns m d others of the authorities have been previously discussed yet it should be understood that orson
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doctrinal items pratt like president young believed that there have always been divine fathers and sons 2 that t ne re are count les thera there countiess countless ies counties iteach las perso lis each millions of persons who will gain godhood steach one being a s erson al god as much so as the god of this creation 3 and personal thl thi onee moc once mor talok mortal that god was oneg mortalok they were also united in the maruy marry or beget commonly accepted doctrine that spirits do not marky marly 5 that those who gain exal tati6on will beget spin igual gon uon aon spir itual spiritual children exaltation exaltati tt 6 an d theb and send them to other ttmortal worlds 0 and thet mortal worlds0 off sing offsing offsink live adam and eve were irrin ortal beings having bodies of f immortal laam flesh and laan iesh lesh
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is dentified denti fied fled identified lil covenants end covennts and coee as iri michael the archangel in tha D 0 c doctrine grid cove nla 11ts being ichael a god pratt agrees that he now is expla ning explaining seme angels exola sess are gods and still possess the lower off ico calis d angels caile ice calie lowe office calls aneals loze ti3d tiad an A chenagag e 1 god 2 A am is c adam yet archangel ye t he i s a called is but the re did exist definite differences of opin on beopinion tia 3 which tween the two leaders as we have seen .3 whim led to a doctriseen3 seena chame were opinions chore thane chare nal parting of the ways in certain areas there thare brigham expressed by pratt which were incompatible with Brig hana youngts brie hara young1s views on adam adao adae for example pratts belief affirmed both and after pres adent youngts death that ad president young1s adam was not before nd ident ldent godk theb god gock that appe apre existent spirit child of that god4 thab a pre our but aare preexistent tha groundy 5 was made literally from the dust of the ground5 and that ground adam A dam an deve died and were resurrected following the resuradam and eve dan follow ing adan 6 christy one idea which is apparently unique with rection of Christ pbellef ratt regarding adam and eve is his belief that they had the power bo beget immortal off sOring prior to their fall7 in powe to offspring falla ellear nade elg ear clean what sense he meant this is not made eig ean by him clear owbrigham young s successor john brigham youngs consent a miscellaneous iscellaneous cie cle ar taylor has left no clear cut evidence as to his views one way clean cleer oraft oror the 0 other he did refer to god as our father and the craft thero there ganizer of these boalies8 but in what sense he is the organizer bodies
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president taylor did not say thepe are but a fa u cow ents on sayo faw comments few coh ants thede fau there e facund in the publications of the church in the the subject to be f fcund cund 2 ar apostle late 1870s and 18801s elder erastus snow an apost lep spoke issosa lef to the effect that adam was born a son of god and not literally bon 1 same zarre sarre sane ron from gode created as a thing apart f rom godo this sarye viewpoint was exfron oodo pressed in a public lecture by elder john H kelson some eight 2 the contributor the fope numer of y ea rs late Is ter years lete in england rumer forerunner fore numen inipr ov rient rover roverrient the tr pover ement era carried two articles of interest in this periods period one entitled our fath r and god by a J F gibbs father enuitled s ex expresse d the idea that those who become gods are the ones presse expressed god expressed eods eod ftmosto entitled to furnish mortal bodies for their spiritual ost offspring 3 the other written by a thomas W brookbank co ranted cosimsnted before adam fell he was a resurrected man that is rpnted reorganized physical body had been disorganized and then reorganized4 his hews tl le deseret news printed the full text of a lecture given by the joseph E taylor in the logan temple in june 1888 in this as address taylor also affirmed that adam wass a resurrected man he used the april 9 1852 99 182 discourse and the father 01 christ of ol brigham young and the so called king follett funeral of socalled 184 bis sermon given by joseph smith in april 14. in support of his 5 s contentions5 itis apparent from these and other sources contentions immorts1 immortsl the problem of the origin of the immortal body of adam that
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will further substantiate this condition george qed cannon apostle cannon was editor of the q11 GJI nono Q as c&nnon none llillenial star in 1861 when it published a front page article tilleniai it the article quoted a series of entitled the origin of man ats youna youns 4ts statements by president young including some from his april statemen statelen 9j 182 aj 1852 address and a subsequent one given in august of that 9
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yoang president young in the foregoing passages while subt an tiating nan biating stantiating the fact of the union of man preexisting ft mans nans bodily ground1 ground spirit with a bodilly product of the dust t of the groundy dunt enters more particularly into the moans operandi of that modus antono h3 ha unmistakably union H r urmistpakably declares man s origin to be almas not together 0 a celestial characterthat only is his character that toseth tosetl ar of p i r it deoc daze deze ent bul too mema spirit of heavenly descent but his organization too0000 bat that the latter is not taken from the lovier animals but lover from the orisdially ly celestial body of the great father of original e i4 ia0 y humanity ctiz eean look on this pi atiz eman man go offspring of hiant pichie ean god pictie ge mah ood emah the biart hiart e patheris lma lan an ap a his Pa father&2 and on this man th e image of the ims ian zhe ima theriS thenis some twenty eight years lamer he told a general c on ference iamer latero conference twentyeight later thare audience that thene are two personages the father and the there thsre god son G d is thae being who walked in the garden of eden and gad the cearrie who talked with the prophets canle canie this revelation bearrie to us 3 with thepassage of the years elder cannon the passage certainty eert cart eith thepassageof in eart aint ith tended to more or less avoid the issue as is indicated by
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anoon stopped yesterday atte rnoon by a young man who afternoon wanted to know whether adem was the father of our lord md ad now vwe tae re arshi oped or orshipped whether he was the being vae orshi aped etc no shipped savior saviorwhether beins umie vezy we can get ourselves vay easily puzzled if we choose to unie vey eng speca iatl apor doctrines and prineo es 0 thf s s 0 by specu catl ing upo do so principles of taf this speculating ipor
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h rouah 155 III P ryphe that t11 cre has sild through 111 3 prophet tinat tincro said sald rouzh hi rcphe lord thero there are two personages in the godheads tact ought to bo suff 1 godhead thct tl be suffith z cd x cone ernine the doe concerning Conc clent fod us at the present time 0 cient for doacsm ina recard irk decard ctrine sra regard to adlsn ard the sav or the prophet briham briham acim adt and t h a savor savior in bri ham eri young faught ang Y 0 ungr taught some things ecu corning that agr acu but the first eaibern 4ng icern ta vj P asi deney and the twelve do not t2 inlr dency presidency asidency wise vice to think vise rise inar ve have a advocate those matters so it is sufficient to know ie these matter natter father god the eternal father juho reveals H 9ynself by his holy luho ho himself spirit unto those who seek him and that jesus christ is son our redeemer the savior of une worldly 1 the world world1 his worldl worl

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wilford woodruff the fourth president of the churchy church yi lford woodruf yilford p when eilf ord woodruff gave similar advice to the jssembership Mn on he iford bilford rilf f mambershi uhen spoke before the gents ral ccnference of april 1895 judging from 189 general ocnference rai conference yea Is orece eding the proceeding statement of george Q cannon made three years later not everyone heeded this admonition of president woodruff how much longed 1 shall talk to this people 1 do not know longer I I lonser cse ceae but 1 want to say this to all israel cea ase troubling I ceab yourselves about who god is who adam is who christ is z 10 jehovah is who iso for heavens sake let these things alone uny amny mny trouble yourselves about those things god has revealed vhy these r and when the 121st section of the doctrine and himself sectio1 fchope ewe U awe are covenants is fuir lied hether schope be one god or many fulfilled god gods they will be repealed to the children of men revealed god christo christ is christy the holy ghost me the holy is carlst carist for you and is to 1mcw ghosts that should be enough lmo imo if alost clost to know anymore weait wvait we get where god is in want we ant vant mnt ait are 7 alt TO till troubled very every little person 1 say this because I kno inquiries from eiders anxious to know who god while vlth eldors elders vith alth ith is who adam ise 1 say to the elders of s as who christ 4s bay day lse I dway is gue ve owe have had letter after letter from oue stop this israel stopthizo cone emins concerning elders abroad wanting to knort conc eming these things ho ra as placed in the garden of he r4 adam is the first man ioas iras llan edcny and edeny ana is our great progenitors god the father god progenitor eden he the son and god the holy ghost are the same yesterday day to da today and forever that should be sufficient for us to dax toda
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adan s bo tlrig to adams identity both are primarily concerned i- h pu alrig adal vith putting an end i- o further speculation on the maa oter to d eter regards eted matter in that ro gards what wak not sa id appears to be perhaps more significant than as nezha os nore sald said aP pears hat wai pezha w bat yos saido later statements by certain church leaders are 1at was cid what UOQ caldo sid hat far more definite as to what is and what is not doctrinal ffluciferts lantern lucifer in a notoriously antt mormon anti notorious1v antimormon by A T schroeder publication zion luciferls lantern edited lucifoxs 1od period appeared an attack on tiye church typical of that pe bod the there anattack mormondom 1 y edionod theologically edio the thteologrjca31 edlo nod sensualism of ranorimolladom lon manifest ahio n abio itsco finds further manifestation in bitsco acapti ion of heaven if its conception atlo o et 1 can get any intelligent idea 0 of the after lipe oje mor lAgen I llee oie insen lasen ilfe of life oii inte intelagen nonas noras mons by tho study of their inane sermons it is something nons inano the ape til resurrection aso rec 1 of axa trw spirit are like this there asa ttl n re 0 rac 1on one 0 the s oirlt aror the oth 5 r of the fleshclhis is an error for the church other flesh jhis chis dieca rror teaches that the spirit never diecd after the second aate afte resurrection the spirit and the body are united and transchere gather solme placean in the universe rhere planted to some placein theiuniverba w1aere they pther place plac rather ein material out of which to ather org anise ors anize up enough raw planetary organize cf
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debasing such a conception of heaven is deb asing because its anest oaptuousness voluptuousness furhighest consists bistu hi n hnest pleasure con bisto only in the vo sisto nta hed b the gr clan hab aera ito only rewards are QQ grecian heb sen nia nished by cian hetaera its cisn hat atu ion aa test noons 0 exaltation is a fecundity and 54uals s 3ual and bual snd the greatest moans of e t atalon sad aatest P artest ad make a jack rcobif envious alaton ride that would nide jacl ra udit rice jaci
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goprerent 19 GO pre rent bre fre ministerial vico vies vics A sore to sox also found occasion ao attack ltormonisni foc some 0 f it for som of its tenets which they considered incompatible with the truth as incomapatible rev me they saw it the revo vj 0 M paden of the pro s byte rl an church presbyterian oneo was such a ongo one ons under the caption presbyterians and mormon Presby ten presbyten presbytek ans presbyter Presbyte tek rians n god t the deseret netts carried a front page account of an U ad de 8 e ret 0d raleich balds address by him in ralhich he salds hich aich sald said
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mueh much I have not looked into the adem god idea very muen and there is more in the W writing of apostle F D richards elting eiting on the matter than in any of the others 1 have seen but he I 1 find nothing 1 think the church ia alshain ned of the idea alshai aed ashamed I I thinie thinic is 1 or of B he roberts1 balmages talmages dra tain aSels Tal about it in ado Talm mages book ors in any orb H robertsa talmasels tai hou rm worship no magnifiedroberts man hom 3 writing3 writings writing he whord is later who worship are not 1 imized gods 1 wre min and co minimized minimi zed sed minimised rett hons next day tho deseret news p llblsshed a long editorial dereft the Dee refe nows published the I s fending the churches doctrine on god the remarks of rev church f 1 Ro bertSy ho roberts paden were also referred to by B H robertsp of the first aden COIL leil of seventy when he spoke before the mutual improvement council coul
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4y sioct pero nao fathe son end eoly sioch As this ual peronao fethe sony az d boly czhozl nae father peronto fether qt 1oezkzonases de lavation standl hode it ulii knot perhaos surged klot haro hare declaration stands hore hate lazation liatorialism to vill not perhacs tpithoia 01 11aterial 12m trithoiom ol 0 christians christbars unfamiliar with christiar monon theological tenso but when the full doctrine of hs teaso r isio islo a mormon tho delty as taught in 1110 almon congregations is imoto it deity daiev daitv 7 7ill at once bo scon saen ba neen that no christian can accept ite tn ill tii til the mormon ojen teaches that god the father hz in s morion church fact has a ran uka ula bonc material body of flesh and bono 1 that adam ia thed god the iz thew f lesh iesh aerial pace that this A dara roa va physically bo of the human race toa tod adamcd adamcawt 7as gotten by another god that the gods wero once as we are ra tto now that there is a great multiplicity of gods that noj vas jesus christ was physically begotten by tche heavenly father ras the of mary his wife that as TO have a heavenly father so rio ria heavenly other helvenly het eel ve have a HeLvenly mother that jasus himself was josus ule vas rie also vie nas pio babiy polygamist so probably married and was pro bably a polygamistat least 0 o it has at plo ns been prizinG ed in their publications and taught among their printed ptxolicatio people and that the holy spirit is of material substance 1 t1rane capable of actual thrane mission from one person to another1 another transmission the ministerial association went on to quote from various church works and sermons among them the adam god sermon of brigham young the seer etc B H robertn again speaking in the saer robarta roberta robarts roberts A annual M 1 A conference of bhat year denied their assertions I that tha christts etc relative to the identity of god christas ts marriage etca stating christ etc9 4 that such were the views of individual men and not the official charcho church doctrines of the churcho as As late as 1929 paden was still concerning himself lato subheading church with adam and the mormon churche 0 under a sub heading entitled
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of the ignorant who othere are men in the church rd ao entertain ideas of a there more advanced nature song of wnidh although they may be sorne some vinich expressed in public are not put forth as binding upon any scon sorn persoon penson person per soon vah which discourse that vjh leh president young put forth in theorday enday er erday referred to is not preached elther to the latterday saints latten day oreached either lattcharcho latter ither of the churcho in or to the world as a part of the creed church explai ans nening the letter of our correspondent we simply explainlned explained answering ering which asked private so that he might private that wh 1 ch was as 11red inyoun 71 in cp s understand the tenor of president youngs views and not with kny iny any intention 0 f advocating or denying his doctrine or of sny LI of controvert ing anything that controverting anythingthat may have been said upon the 2 lbs opponents of his utterances2 utterances subject by opponan sis explanation there lis a seeming inconsistency between the ex planation of the is s 11purport of the disy course and the editor1s assertion that what purport discourse editors editort uro preached preachec yoc Br ishan young saying saving brigham yor was supposedly sa ving is not pre achec either to penrose analy abaly day saints or to the worlds world if the the latterday latter

gret tjo onal is the yeat zlchni the journal of discourses reat 1 do not 1- ole any vot disccuro onai es n is not now in print and I net know oie vol e now on volume of pres ment ri sale however 1 have given you the substance of president I subs larace larkce younss te achino as to adam hop nrr that this will be teaching hoping teachino satisfactory I satisha satisfa etory 1 am you ns truly yours 11c pen rose per vi penrose perrose C news 1 newis editor nevis the editors letter to anderson is followed by a statement vkiich anich tnich foll owad says in pant pa 11t part anyone who has carefully read leahe discourse 1 lcahe r1 1 .1 perhe will ceive that our brief statement of its purport is correc t cornec correct that there is nothing in one that is in conflict with the other that we have neither apologized for nor disputed anything contained in that one sermon whi ch has been so much which misunderstood and perverted by the enemies 0 1 our late vene veof I lat eabie neable presiden we are familiar with the doctrine he erable president taught and which he did not attempt fully to explain in the tauvht d sco urse which has been published abich discourse ahich and it should be under unden stood that the views entertained by that great leader and inspired servant of the loud were not expressed as prinlord viere ciples to be accepted by mankind as essential to salvation ake the prophet joseph smithy his mind was enlightened as lilce smith smtth lke things which were beyond a common understanding and an dinen andinen to many under s t vandinen the declaration which would bring upon him the opposition
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president smith and his counselors issued another 19136 1912 official statement in 19126 speculations as to the career of adam before he came to the tha are of no real value we learn by revelation that he earth valuer was tiich&e1 the Ar changelip and that h stands at the head archangel michael ailv archang chansaila archana doc torine he Covenaants sect ear tho of llis posterity on eart the Doe eadi she doctrine and covenants eari his ead oh dogmatic assertions do not take the place of 1070 53 51 10705351 1073 t 4 0 n and vre should be yed with that which is we 0 a 0 revelation satisfied satis fed matters thaty afters accepted as doctrine and not discuss mattera chaty after1 that artel aftel ory3 th orya all disputes ara merely matters of thaory3 tho above may well have been prompted by a letter weli weil tha the vi written to the first presidency by one of the mission president ritton sar ael 0 bennion inquiring for information relative to samuel ual aei bis harm hazl hazi haai because of tho obvious adam god discourse the brighaai youngs Brighanm young bizharm Biz atal 1 0 atau lice of the first presidency residencys reply in establishing tc importance 0 residences la l6 official church vieva it is quoted in full vou cu estion cozacer ning adam heas s not been ane cered your question concerning adan heus ans uered answered aing ads hea has i heu cuestion prazsure clestion pressure praz sars prec surs pres se irjpoptant business vie rziportant bofo to because of a prac sure of ir fcofoe becau oraz nene hope spe llr of e hooe plainly 0 you speak 0 no i rcopond briefly but ho oe nor roopond noj rospond vas rj s a rz i on made by br ie ham young that jesus 7 d eby aghan voura har VOU aby ighan vourj ha e S U S adam be th abortion I tj on gotten of the father in tho flesh by our father adar and the ather adal holy agan is the father of jesus christ and not the tha adan rether fether that adam fethe el dc arc challenged by contain fathe idec 4ro awe c gho oho certain and you say that lder ade ider are mllengred
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partaking of the fruit of the tree 0 t life of 11 fe and so recovering from the mortal condition apparently lire and t he other was through mee atonement of jesus christ fee the the hoid hl s l7ell laell man has fallen hoi7 can he get back what is hol e the antidote the antidote was the tree of life but he antidot N ow now what elso was s driven out from ito vas a eiso the antidote was eise else ite jesus T god and va sus christ was a god before he the death of a v6 3 cama came into this worldle cece cace cara thia worlds joeph joseph yielding smith perhaps no other living leader is fielair sithe of the church is so highly respected for his knowledge and understanding of its principles and doctrines as is joseph yielding smithy president of the quorum of the twelve apostles i elding smith ij smithy snithy a son of former president joseph F smiij ho he does not and snithe smi sni subscribe to the views just quoted as to adam being a resurmodem rected man nor to the modern concepts of biological evolution evon in the church there azine a scattered few who are evan even are ate d noj j aavo c a tins and e onten ding tha no advo nc advocating anten contending that thi s eap tlh w as peopled noi thl ear h was people this earth peee lono raees races 11itha race ibba nece wperhaps r many paces long before the days of iritha ltha rece itha race perhaps any pece iono square itba these men desire of course go scuare the teachings mon to schare adcm adam adar
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adar the subject of adan Os identity has ldar adars received attention at least three times within the last eighteen spu iele years in church publications the first of these was an apu leie arU article nlews neivs in the church section of the deseret alews entitled adam moo pe moore our patriarchal father2 by S D moone jr herll 2 what vhat Fat the second ahat Father erchal fether archal fathers Patri fet concerning conce are the facts conee raing the so called adamgod theorytf by soai led adam god theory soalled Soal stalled im ovenient john A Widt soe was first published in the inrpr orovernant widtsoe apostle eps in 1938 under the general heading evidences and reconciliaers bra
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elde eide side iabeis labels the dc2ca tl lat adam is god the ide that esus tather parent isus christ father the barent of jesus chr alst the eeli worn ad G od lather eail zorn veil oarent lst aich ilch myth long series from wllich chich 1 ong series zis fron vhich a iong s e r ies of absurd and false deductions ris doductio iich I sedies f have been made .852 182 852 852 citing the april 9 185 discourse he says ca tain 2 1 I fuis iade the ee aade confusing certain statements there yade are confujs ns if read supeaily rficial ly but very clear if read with their context eneficially filially president ficis ally ehla M1a bires mies c aires ident bri bhama youns and of the church jhla ve 1 fires chana young of iires have taken bright ty 7e ss incivairtar ae of he o0porunl advantage 0 1 the opportunity an have used these st tatements and hav catements I hev alementa alements y zi ideiv to do injury to the 1 repeatedly and widely eputiation ideis mormon ur 10 lo ir people an reputation of pr president young and the viormo ormo n end honest reading resident esident hor of this sermon and of ot hgr reported discourses of pres eldont othor other ldont di scour es wiscour president discour na brigham young proves that the great second president of the groat brighn greaff greatf thal briehn chuum church held no such views as have been put into his mouth churm adam god mythi in the form of the adamgod mythol elder widtsoe explains that it vas in the sense of chiy hiy patriarchal leadership over hi i own earthly progeny that adam was decla ivd to be our father and our god and the only god hen decia declared fat her dot whom we nowhere is ito whon ita brigh am with whomwe have to do by brigham young it surp gested that adam is god the father whose child adam himsurr suggested tl As proof of this contention the fact that the tsas orooi oroli self was
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per perspective the pen spec tive of years brings out the remarkable fact nas bri ngs spective i s of the latterday saints have had brinas nab ohs t though the energies en ths that hav latter day d courses S access in pr 1 anted form to the hundreds reds of discourses of accas acces young I nted hund printed hurd hundreds is iscourses a ar erighar only ha al dozen statements have been usehalf a he s e founded o founder of I these foulder ful to the c a 1 umm i a c s of the 1rcun e r- beann utah of ithebe fule s e ra he calumniators Ih sermon 0 f april 9 182 which has been cuot ed most quoted 0 n of the bean buot frequently fact or doctrine if fre qu e n s presents no errors of 2 ngly honestly stan di angly 4an dingly read under standingly and honestly2 yvith the wor s of john A vi un it Vidt sog we corne to an end of come 0 soe avith lie words corde vidtsoe idtcoe present the views of others from 1852 to the pz beseny time as they have az besenw 182 non 1 appeared in various church and no q jhoareh publications church nonchurch publicat tons there ions lons have been claims and counter claims theories facts and 16ve the fictions according to tk te position one assumes relative to ralat relat ar em arge as ange erge th9 matter tha there are however two points which emerge a s irrefutable facts the first Is that the assertion made by some that the church secretly acknowledges adam as god the amy father the parent of christy is without any foundation in christ prjth jytl truth this jyrl has been repeatedly exploded by one authority after another in the last fifty years the second concomitant with the firsty is that the first re gardin degardin regardin the actual doctrines of th church regarding adam have been set forth in equal clarity he is identified as michael the e ordained alio nc hangel soic flio archangel a s air lt ch 11d of god vho was fore ordain edt to nchangel spirit child oir
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boaly of naorual bealy to this earth and enter into a body c P imi orUal flesh and ordal iirortal som manner Pbona whida bone whidi was in so prepared for him he together bolo bola bole ahida neparad modt nort with his wife eve fell to a mort 1 state the reaf ter they thereafter hey aortal begat mortal chil dran obeyed ohs gospel laws taught them by thera thela ths then thl children chii heavenly bes rigs and eventually died a physical deathe follbeings und bei deaths death were owing the resurrection of chr isto they wene themselves resurchristy ista lol iol loi ing reefed as celestial beings and are now enthroned with all the majesty and honor due them as progenitors of the race on earth in the future adam will return to the earth as the ancient futie
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josepe JOSEPH JOSEM josel

SMITH AND THE STANDARD WORKS TIM STAXDARD tee

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to complete the circle of t ais study it will be necals be this essary and desirable to review the beginnings of latterday latter day saint theology relative to adam this r requires a consideration quires of the teachings of the prophet joseph smith and of his associ1852 ates prior to 18523 and a brief appraisal of the standard works workett workstt mormon mod boox of the church the bible the book of Morimons the doctrineand doctrine and covenants and the pearl of great priced there are three quespricoe pricee tions stemming from the early period of the church for which answers 1 what is to be found in anstaers are sought in this chapter abst nee rni adam s concerning adam1s i the earliest publications of the church co nce ani ng adamas identity 2 what did joseph smith teach 3 what do the stanhat rcs dard works as such reveal worl
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ahen the bosom of later when the evening and 14 morning star was piColi shed by oliver cowdery in published orning stea idnio ho kirtland ohio it asked iddio could the ancient of days be ancien 113 3 0 adan but our father adam surely none other adal adai W W phelps who edited the paper in missouri in 1832loaden toader 1833 wrote two poems dealing vi th the fall of man and the lost vzth vath he s ej1cz1ie of eden and adam oiidi zhilan the place where adam met adan zdan glories liidi vfth poen arst orst orsi edth his righteous po sterit y be oret his deaths in the poem ri&atz ous posterity before posterit defore death n he adam ondl ahman t as e h 0 v ahnen U am ondi ahmen imnlicity impllcity identifies christ a s jehovah chris god s old testament name in editing that prior to the spread gods ood writing oods anci and face 01 evil men did live a holy race ancl worship jesus f ace to of e 11 k- it n adai ondi ahm an nit I might be weli t 0 compare this a ee weil &a adal adei face in 1 d an 0 n d i ahman ett 1 t m aa b e well to c 0 p ax-e t h s f bously buote png e pne S s jion f r om phe aps wi th tijj e pre v ously quoted stanza from dom pre ips the f rom expression from phelps with tii previously cuote a ti itr1he ksd trit0 115 T n&e sr hits poem poen he spirit the second of hils two early his eccnd hie later P 0 his trita n whlig p e 0 adam e perhaps indicating a perta n inter ea certa intereat poer poar an certain interest adan while whtie SP

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possibly as a z esuz of the pueluz that first resuit result the 3 a uhl tings olo blication of the ceilings oij closes z- lated of abraham has no abrah ar vei lings of and later abrahan na s n 0 th a veilings clo catlon cation rei latez rcalic zrritinzs li acance for thie study 1 es peela significance pecia especial stene especia siene icance thle this st ad y thit e di te d car ios &althy t0h capios balthy he throes anJ seasons tiroes and deaso the T lmne s and Ejeaso ns then edited by don can los smi tah canlos carlos pests suggests a literal infcerprefcation of the dust of the earth interpreted bion interprete blon t e suarests tion yli n 0 no a ying dody origin of adad s physicalbody in saying 0 o language need be adans orizril orizril f adar physical body oris zhan ohrn plainer ohan this that i s that god before he framed this P ainer chan is world had laid the scheme of life and salvation and before adam1 adama he ormed gsl asl adams s dust into wn he had predestined that lly human f iby i1y the hum family should be made children to hlin sc af hiir 2f through humi liy himself na 2 n2 jesus Chri ex christ in an account of a series of lectures given in new york qorobably georee city by a mr adams probably george JQ a mormon missionary

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jesus do liy 1 do th t ar vjhy I 1iy the tha r i ss ti- rrt father do wen w an worlds earns rolling ja nil- o existence ne s carr e ity ethen worked wan world earr 0 caine calne he into athen ether I ea r out s i n sr d 0 m with fear nd trembling ene I u t 0 U his kingdom w i 1 h foar and t r e r b IL n tl rn d 1 must do th e trembling end tren the same and when 1 get r whon I 9 et my kingcon 1 shall present it luo my con sane same kingcob I shali king eom 1 to any col scle sale saie shail kino eon kinn don bet F atw h 0 atl nay so thr k riza OM upo mav max nax father GO ahr he may obtain wkingdom upon kingdom and it that v 11 exalt h rim in glory lim 1.1 li 11 he n al e he will then take a hig la ar exail him higher exall will hib eri erl eal become I setton and 1 will tawe his place and thereby beco ria exaltatton take tabe tal a h1 mysel ted myself so that jesus treads in the tracks of ha s faln tim f his at r and inh erLos u god ood god ood od ood cod what god did befo e I and C od is thus tm bafo ther f1 before inherits ga ori ed and exalted iza the salvation and exaltation of g1 glorified 1ted lra oni sted in exaj exah 1 all his children relfedrine to the creation of this earthy be said rell erring the head referring earth he god called together the gods and sat in grand council to bring arld forth the wrorld the grand councilors sat at the head in vrld yonder heavens and contemplated the cea tion of the worlds creatlon creation na and thus were created at the time n2 which thusy thesy in the beginning time2 timea the head of the gods called a council of the gods and they came to cane together and concocted a plan to create the world and care rosether tosether bathen Sether bather
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deins every the statement reigns of his successor t-e s a t a r a n eve man who reims ns in del rel rei reins god dorrn dorra corn cludes the cazes vial glory is a goa to his dorda inions coim c011 bludes ood nc dorrainions concludes doninionc cales celes lial celestial doninio summarization of joseph smithes published pronouncements relasmiths tive to this study clearly he is the source of church docthe archangel michael tie trcha tl which established adam as michaei tle z archa ngel the antrine vvho v&o days a chosen servant of god veo came to this earth cient of hunnan to become tine progenitor of the human race president young the
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ter tam never stamped yit nove neve clapped eith h slapped rith public or which were nover clearly star ped with his elt rit o P r 0va1 approval there have been a number of doel ines some quite doctrines sone sote I sho she va hse e which he is ouston sibly the author 1 anta stic tho hie the hi obstonsibly obstensibly obston I fantastic of unich stie antastic prophecy the be liaP that the jos 1 tribes aro on an are iob lob I horse loz belief lot adjacent star near the earth that there are people on the earthy oarth moon etc he hda hin hla all these are ascribed to him perhaps ho did so hit ko teach in part but which part no one seems to be sure H 7 74naisbitt told an audience naisbitt it is said that joseph smith 1 l who aht that adam had two vvives uti iho said it avives adala taught wives ttl tho adan the prophet tauf rht pronoun such a declaration is not to be found in his public px o ylo on ceax yio ments nor was tho wril aer able to validate the ideas assigned the writer tha aril aeu to joseph smith by E W tullidge in his book the women of morrqondom a series of short biographical sketches of prominent mormondom early mormon women according to this work the prophet taught lt tho ltsisters in the temple at kirtland more advanced doctrines the sisters iclyo publicly than he apparently ever presented publ iclyn this is not extenant sta tenent vfith state nt with actly in harmony vaith the prophets statenant to the effect 1 1 am bold to decla ie ihave taught all the strong doI decia 1 have deela chave declare I that ctrines publicly and always teach stronger doctrines in public na perhaps n2 2 than in private is just a matter of what he it howho v so it is a moot point meant by strong doctrine if of ever tullidge an unfortunate victim 0 victorian rhetoric vet bal detail reverbal boda ube and oft times redundant vezbai with ela bora ola elaborate eia olabora counts some of the prophets private doctrines briefly jose h smith is maid to have told the sisters that adam is mald oaid joseph said sald

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the father of tho spirtis of ull mon born on jn the spirjis orl oil uil men dorn oia ivo icc canth tilts earlb tilis earth 0 that both adam and D vo came to this carah ac poe ur this carth ivc oarfch ft roe resurcarlh rof pne det ermined ilton pre boings mith prodetermined predetermined intention rected beings with the pro determined inton tion of fallin gt vith fallings fallingt falling two to a state of mortality etc 1 in pointing out that the concept et of a heavenly lir mothed was not revealed to the world until the mother lother iother time of joseph smith he says the oracle of this last grand truth of womens divinity trul h thl thi as the parm anor with the father in qd a ad of her eternal mother and aner pantner eother parl onor other none partner mormon churcho tche creation of t he worlds is charcho other the church was revealed in the glorious theology of joseph and it hadi hani Brighanx established by brigham in the vast patriarchal system 4 mada firn which he has made firm as the foundations of the earth by irn irm proclaiming adam as our father and god the father is first him these in name and order but the mother is with himthese twain thobe tha thebe those 2 one from the beginning beginning2 beginnings such were the views ascribed to joseph smith and brigham young
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genego ave ava found ara cound in chapters two three four and dive of Ge neso nejd genejo ao gonoi lve ive nejo five rive t dar s 01 the origin of adaris physical body gonosio mere y says boo y benois mert of adarns merely 2a ys uenois rort
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wherefore 1 the lord god caused that he should be I froam cast out frorm the garden of eden from my presence because from 010 his transgression wherein he became spiritually dead of I but behold 1 say unto you vhich is the finst death vlich alich first od e ave unto adam and unto his seed god ood thab 1 the lord 0 that I d2 I dle die should not da e as to the temporal death until 1 that they god angels should send forth anc els to declare unto the lord ca eis lond c4 lora them repentance and redemption through faith on the name sona 5 son of mine only begotten son5 11 tarch in march 1832 the prophet was told by the lord that he had tta michaei appointed michael your prince and established his feet and ichael f 0 ven set him upon high and given unto him the keys of salvation udon
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w tch re a oattie battie dattle battle of the great ich is to bo fought b et c an f h t between foucht lib 1j michael the s e v e lia anel even the a chance aj th nichael archangel and the den v 1 seventh h e dez devil davil isa chael atory miehael vall pain tho vi ctory f or the saaants of cod a d oval c 0 me and overcome ard vail nain the victory for tho sa4 nts 0 saints fain him who seeketh the throne of him who sitfceth upon the thro nep thrones seebeth teth throne nev hla hia thronev sitfceth sittoeth even the lamb this battle is to be fought at the end of the s snd earton m 11 enn d peace the doctrine md covenants infers the eartoh earths millennial death of adam in relation to the ordination of his ri oteous righteous hteous a sons to the priesthood for seth was or&l11 ned by adam a the age at ord&lned seh sixty nine of sixtynine years and was blessed by him three years previous 1 fil ill to his adans adams death adans deaths it is again mentioned in connection adama with the great convocation of adam1 s ri n teous posterity in the adam righteous leous adam ondi ahman2 ahmann 2 valley of ondl hman bind hind kind the lord ap appeared unto them and they rose up and and neaped nearedhim michael the theyrose the he blessed adam and called hi r 11ichael 4he prince ichael comfort unto adam archangel and the lord administered lora and said unto him 1 have set thee to be at the head a sot I arld and multitude of nations shall come of thee arid thou art a thera prince over them forever and adam s then stood up in the midst tood ho was bowed luton arld l J congregation and of the con gregalulon anid notwithstanding he congregal arid do1v tn with aoe e I being full of the holy ghost age beins an down predicted ane C whatsoever should befall his posterity unto the latest generation3 generations 3 generation

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cynator of ef rth and cybator creators borth eorth man is probably based u oon abrahams polytheism especially upon there saysana ha n i where the account says A c than the dord said let us go down say saysand heue cro lord here sAnd dro and they went down at the beginning and they that is the gods nd is
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organized and formed the heavens and the earths 2 earth it is accepted church doctrine clearly taught in the 4 endowment that one of these gods was michaei or adam and adara michael adan ichael noie najor rolo that he played a major roie in the formation of this earth ccle role when it was fully prepared zhen folly the gods went down to organize dom dos man in their own image in the image of the gods to form they 113 kid f him male a prior to this and female to form they them emale f orm physical embodiment man was likewise literally begotten in anthropom6rdic inage the anthropomorpliic image of hig heavenly father as a spirit bis his
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god4 child of goda the genesis explanation of mants earthly origin also nants mas nas written by moses is almost identical with that to be found in the book of moses where we read 1 ron and IP the lord god formed man f rom the dust of the from I fron ground broun d and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became alining soul the first flesh upon the aliving all ail ali vinC alivinc the earth tll-e first man also nevertheless all things were na d spiritually were before created but sgiritually w ere they created and rade spiritually word5 word according to my worda of abraham adds that after the gods formed man from the dust 01 tig tid 1I s spirit and put it into him 0 they took the mans the ground
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3 years and he died 113 he thirty and greatest of the patriarchs a son of god with whom god 4 conversed 4 himself conversed4 A final wcrdin wardin concluding this study the writer quotes from the most recent exposition to be published by the comes from church on the identity and position of adam oositicn it the pen of elder joseph fielding smith president of the quorum of the twelve amo ng adam was among the intelligences spoken of by the lord I who were appointed to be rulers on this earth to abraham his come to lie he was michael a prince and son of god chosen to corrie this earth and stand at the head of his posterity holding th3 keys of salvation under the counsel and direction 0 f tha th of the holy one who is without beginning 01 days or end of of ol CD4 & C co 7816 16 7816. mus ho Y one Is jesus christ on wus d 7816 786 816 716 78 da this 8l6 known as holy life adam the earth michael was preexistent in the pre existent state he was a s the others of our fathers 1pirit spirit like genesis 126 and 27 we are children in the book of d told that adam obtained his body from the dust of the earth and that he was not subject to death is inferred in commandment the comand nient the lord gave him that if he transgressed corand carand fient commandment the divine cozzanandment and ate the fruit of the tree of t le kroledge cozzu imo kn the lmo knoledge of good and evil he should surely die oledge in the book of mormon 2 nephi 2122 we are gen 217 222 inic would positively informed that adam info uld have lived forever in he partaken the garden if he had not par laken of the forbidden fruits fruite aken sken fruit so adam was in no sense mortal until after his transgressd ld would wout woul ion that his immortal spirit came from another world is worl we verily true just as it is true of each one of us for the spirit existence before we came into this all lived in world and obtained bodies which inherited mortality through adalu adam the fall of adanu idore we are also informed in the scriptures that be i0ore adam before grassed and eve transgressed they were without children andthe trans gressed

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ABSTRACT

chato the latterday saints are unique in zhato unlike other that latter day sp denomination christian denominations they do not view adam the first man as a renegade from paradise who should properly be blamed for the carnal sensual and devilish nature of the world we live ryo contrary in- on the contra pyo they honor him as one of the two greatest universal benefactors of all time for had it not been im ordained for his fore ordained1 fall from immortal glory to mortal aortal have dust and darkness the spirit children of god would heave been deprived of the earthly embodiment which alone makes salvation and eventual equality with the gods possible without that adam sacrifice on the part of adama there would have been no mortal red semer life upon this globe nor death nor any redeemer to conquer a nd make real the hope within ua of immortality and us and it
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1 archangel michael is identified as Imichaels the archange the day ancient of days the great progenitor and patriarch of the ay day human races by the latterday saints race this knowledge came latten latter 1830 through revelation to the prophet joseph smith in 18309 and there are some who maintain that adam is in reality the father sorb of spirits as well this belief is primarily based upon the prophets remarks of brjghani youngy the Prophetts successor in the bridaham yoimgr briaham loungy

adam

presidency of the churchy however the church does not advodetermindly determlndly consistently cate this doctrine it has cons stently and determinedly
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rr i h held to the basic te&ch rl of teaching cf teach smith r 0 tl ve to adad adan adar snith roltfve ldar from time to time tho que stdon of aday s identity h s awl tsen adam the question adaire anti Y has artsen adairs enti haa arisen isen hs lsen among some of the membership causing a certain amount of anong discussion and debate but the problem has usually been treated as an academic flight of fancy more than anything else even some church authorities have given vent to theories of their own design but these too have lacked the imprimatur of official doctrine non cormons especially those affiliated with other eon mormons beormons religious denominations are quite fond of acting as censors of latterday saint teachings not infrequently they have latter day taken it upon themselves to upbraid the church for its base anthropomorphic concept of god as well as the great respect evidences for adam their particular target has been the it so called adam god sermon given by president young in 1852 182 socalled they delight in citing it as proof of a doctrine of which the it latterday saints should be ashamed the fact that the latter day church has repeatedly denied the acceptance of adam as god dimiriis hea dimiriis diminished the father has not dimlriss hed to any appreciable degree the dle iaule Mormo nisa use by those elements which ae el to did baule mormonism seek ridicule rie aforementioned ad dreos of the a forementioned address thought rl where there is freedom of thoughts there vi 11 be at opin iono opinion church occasional differences of opil lono within the churchy least such freedom does eydst none are denied the right to specufreedor exists upon the unknovin so long as they do not betray the he unknown late com coa as cola or preach aa doctrine the cora fundamental tenets of the f saith salth falth alth aith ft 1 on such speculate has given nisa to speculation mand ments rise risa mandments of men that speculat
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avin skin individual ideas and interpretations of cer-lalln moot points ii idividu6l certain 1y of doctrine is true yet they are essent4a21 ay minor differences essentially primciples differences which in no way affect the basic principles of yho con vtoo com praise those aho comprise the leadership of the church salvation foun foan four square foar of jesus christ of latterday saints stand foursquare behind latter day bedrock those universal truths which remain the bed rock upon which the church is founded it is to their united pronouncements forn fou for that one must turn folo official doctrine