Blaine says It is clear and consistent in all Mormon
doctrinal treatesies on this subject that 1) The man Adam
Tell Brigham, Taylor, Woodruff & Cannon! You just can't trust them
prohets ya know.
Seems that many LDs for many years have been TROUBLED by who is who. But
don't you worry. just ignore the contradictions. repeat after me....
"I know the church is true, I know the Church is true....."
Spring 1895 General Conference Wilford Woodruff Cease
troubling yourselves
about who God is; who Adam is,
who Christ is, who Jehovah is. For heaven's sake, let these things alone. Why
trouble yourselves about these things? God has revealed himself and
when
the 121st section of the Doctrine and Covenants is fulfilled, whether
there be ONE God or many Gods they will be revealed to the children
of men, as well as all thrones and dominions, principalities, and powers. Then
why trouble yourselves about these things? God is
God. Christ is Christ. The Holy Ghost is the Holy Ghost. That should be
enough for you and me to know. If we want to know anymore, wait
till we get where God is in person. I say this because we are troubled
every little while with inquiries from Elders anxious to know who God
is, who Christ is, and who Adam is.
I say to the Elders of Israel, stop this. Humble yourselves
before the Lord; seek for light, for truth, and for a knowledge of the common
things of the Kingdom of God. The Lord is the same yesterday, today, and
forever. He changes not. The Son of God is the same. He is the Savior of the
world. He is our advocate with the Father. We have had letter after letter
from Elders abroad wanting to know concerning these things. Adam is the first
man. He was placed in the Garden of Eden, and is our great progenitor.
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, are the same yesterday,
today, and forever. That should be sufficient to know. (Millennial Star
57:355-356, April 7, 1895)
April of 1889, George Q. Cannon General Conference: There are TWO personages, the Father and the Son.
God is the being who walked in the Garden of Eden, and who
talked
with the prophets. This revelation came to us in
certainty. (Millennial Star 51:278; April 7, 1889)
FATHER ADAM OUR GOD Brigham Young, in a sermon
in the tabernacle in Salt Lake City on April 9, 1852, said: "When our
Father Adam came into the garden
of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought
Eve, one of his wives, with him. He helped to make and organize this
world. He is Michael, the Archangel, the Ancient of Days, and about
whom holy men have written and spoken. He is our Father and our God, and the only
God with whom we have to do." Of "His son, Jesus Christ," Brigham
Young said: I tell you that God was the Father of Jesus Christ, just
as I am the Father of my son."
Some have grumbled because I believe our God so
near to us as Father Adam. (JD 5:331)
How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day
Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I
revealed to them, and which God revealed to me -- namely that Adam
is our Father and God -- I do not know, I do
not inquire, I care nothing about it. Our Father Adam helped to make
this earth, it was created expressly for him, and after it was made he and his
companions came here. (Deseret Weekly News 22:308-309, June 18,
1873)
Michael (Adam) was a resurrected
being and he left Elohim and came to the earth with an
immortal body, and continued so till he partook of earthly food and
begat children who
were mortal (keep this to yourselves) and then they
died. (Wilford Woodruff Journal, January 27,
1860)
SSHHHHHH In the 1870 meeting of
the School of the Prophets, Brigham counseled: "
... the
brethren to meditate on the subject, pray about it and keep it to
yourselves." (Joseph F. Smith Journal,
October 15,
1870)[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Blaine: I guess I just can't resist breaking into an interesting
conversation!! Perry you are wrong when you say Mormons believe
Adam was both God-the-Father and Michael in the pre-existance.
It is clear and consistent in all Mormon doctrinal treatesies on this
subject that 1) The man Adam was Michael the archangel in the
pre-existence, 2) that Michael was third in order of authority in the
pre-existence. Both the Father and the Son were above Michael in
authority. Michael was the executive of the will of the Father and the
Son, you might
say.
