Our long-awaited deep-dive deconstruction of Adam-God Doctrine, or theory, depending on who you ask. What is it? Who taught it? Why is it controversial? How is it treated by the corporate Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today? ‘As we are, god once was, as god is we may someday become’ is a tried-and-true Mormon doctrine and the Adam-Eve-Gods Doctrine fits perfectly within this logical loop. As the title of the doctrine alludes to, Heavenly Father took the form of Adam with one of his wives, Heavenly Mother Eve, to create and populate the earth, after which he went to Adam-ondi-Ahman, in Missouri, where he ascended back to godhood to continue his charge from Elohim to create worlds without end. Then we dive into the nearly-final segment of Bruce R. McConkie’s Millennial Messiah. McCranky loves the idea of fire burning the sinners and his charged language justifies the physical suffering and burning of anybody who isn’t Mormon or living its dictates. Further, when Jesus returns to reign in the millennium he will rule with an iron rod; the future dystopian Mormon theocracy is a dangerous and unforgiving land. How all these teachings pervade Mormon culture to this day can be seen by Mormons periodically carrying out the will of gods by causing the suffering and death of sinners and those who oppose the kingdom of God. Mormonism creates dangerous men, yet the church never suffers the repurcussions. We round out the episode with some happy news about cannabis legislation heading to President Biden’s desk.
Show Notes:
FairLatterDaySaints Adam-God theory
Brigham Young’s Teachings on Adam by Matthew B. Brown (2009)
JS On the Plurality of Gods
http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/sermons_talks_interviews/smithpluralityofgodssermon.htm
JS King Follett Discourse
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/King_Follett_Discourse
The Evening and the Morning Star May 1834 article about Adam
https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/NCMP1820-1846/id/5884
The Position of Adam in Latter-day Scripture and Theology by Rodney Turner (1952)
Council of Fifty Minutes
Nauvoo Expositor
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nauvoo_Expositor
The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake by John W. Gunnison (1852)
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/rbc/rbc0001/2019/2019gen35226/2019gen35226.pdf
Women of Mormondom by Edward Tullidge (1877)
http://ia800907.us.archive.org/31/items/womenofmormondom00tullrich/womenofmormondom00tullrich.pdf
Brigham Young first public speech on Adam-God Doctrine April 1852 General Conference
https://journalofdiscourses.com/1/8
Celestial Marriage by Orson Pratt Oct 1852 General Conference
https://journalofdiscourses.com/1/9
Our Own Liahona by Spencer W. Kimball (1978 denunciation of Adam-God Doctrine)
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1976/11/our-own-liahona?lang=eng
Quotes on Adam-God Doctrine from various church leaders
http://www.mormonthink.com/QUOTES/adamgod.htm
Adam-God resource repository
The Adam-God Doctrine by David John Buerger (Spring 1982)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45225052?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents
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