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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 8
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Claims made in Chapter 8: The Adam-God Doctrine
192-193
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- Mormons consider the fall of Adam a fortunate event.
Author's source(s) - Doctrines of Salvation 1:114-115
- The fall entailed negative consequences, but it was a necessary event and did not take God by surprise.
- Latter-day Saints do not blame all their ills on Adam and Eve for making a choice that could have been avoided.
- Plan of salvation/Original sin
193-195
Claim
- Brigham Young preached that Adam was our God.
Author's source(s) - Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 1:50-51.
- Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 5:331.
196
Claim
- Brigham continued to teach Adam-God.
Author's source(s) - Deseret News, June 18, 1873.
198
Claim
- Adam was not created of the dust of this earth.
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
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198-199
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- Brigham taught that Adam is the only god that we should worship.
Author's source(s) - Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 1:50.
- Women of Mormondom, p. 196"
199
Claim
- Brigham taught that Adam was the father of our spirits.
Author's source(s) - Women of Mormondom, p. 180
199
Claim
- Brigham taught that Adam was the father of Jesus Christ.
Author's source(s) - Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 1:50-51.
200
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- Heber C. Kimball taught that Adam was the father of Jesus Christ
Author's source(s) - Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 4:1.
200
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- George Q. Cannon taught that Adam was the father of Jesus Christ.
Author's source(s) - Daily Journal of Abraham H. Cannon, March 10, 1888, vol. 10, pp.178-79; original at Brigham Young University.
202
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- Anyone who teaches Adam-God will be excommunicated. The Church is therefore inconsistent because it will excommunicate someone for believing something taught by one of its prophets.
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
- Author(s) impose(s) own fundamentalism on the Saints
- Church doctrine/Statements by Church leaders
- Brigham Young on the vital need to know for ourselves