In the 26 books named "Brigham Young's Journal of Discourses" on page 50 Brigham Young states; "Adam is our Father and our God, and the ONLY God with which we have to do." It is also written just ten lines under that statement this question and answer that was stated by Brigham Young also: the question was: "And who is God?" the answer to his own query says; "He is the first of the human family."
Not many LDS believe that Adam was God, in fact, I have never met one except for myself who believes that Brigham Young was a very inspired prophet of God. To answer such a bold statement let me first quote a verse out of the book of Moses 1: 33
Ecclesiastes 1: 9 The thing that is now is that which hath been. And that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.And worlds without number have I created; and I also created them for mine of purpose; and by the Son I created them, which is mine Only Begotton.
34. And the first man of all men have I called Adam, which is many.
God created many Adams because he created many worlds and the same plan is in effect on every earth.
Man has always existed in one form or the other. In the beginning all people were one of the spirit entities known as "Intelligence." Intelligence apparently had no other power than that of mind. If they would have had one power besides that of mind they would long ago have learned to live in harmony with all living things. God Himself was also an entity we have come to call Intelligence. We call them Intelligence because they knew everything there was to know so far as logical information is concerned. It is written that Intelligence was not made or created or procreated and there is no space in which there is no Intelligence.
Now this is how I personally see it if you would care to ask God if what I perceive is true or my own form of thinking.
One of these Intelligence in the quadrillions of quadrillions of millennia that they had existed devised an instrument by the shear power of mind. And with the use of that instument he was the first Intelligence to break the awesome silence of the world of Intelligence by vocalizing one single word. This next verse, IN MY OPINION, informs us as to what that word was.
St. John 1: 1 In the beginning was the WORD, the WORD was with God the WORD was GOD.
I personally believe that is the correct interpretation of that verse, but that's just me.
However, with the power of speech added to a being who already knew everything there was to know so far as logical information was concerned, HE now had the power to command.
He commanded molecules, atoms, and everything else that was necessary to create a biological computer, MAN. He then inhabited that computer and then utilized HIS own DNA to fasion a help meat or a woman to allow them from that time forth to procreate man after their own kind.
That Adam was the only Adam that was ever created from the elements or dust of the earth. All other Adams and all other people are simply procreations of the original Adam whom Brigham Young said was GOD.
Brigham Young said, "The Adam of this world was not created from the elements of the earth but was brought here to this earth with a celestial body."
Of course again in my opinion the first earth ended in choas. Everyone who lived on the first earth was grieved over the fact that they had cause others to be hurt or themselves to be hurt. You'll notice that I didn't say they sinned. They couldn't have had any laws, rules or regulations until after the council in heaven at the conclusion of the first earth. This all means that we all have the blood of God flowing in us, and that is why we call God, "Our Father Which Art in Heaven."
That is just one little tidbit of information that the Holy Spirit has given to me and I am forced to believe it. But you don't have to believe me at all. If the Holy Spirit does not tell you that what I have written here is true, then you are not supposed to believe it. That's simple enough isn't it?
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