The Adam-God Doctrine and other man elevating doctrines as recorded in the Journal of Discourses and in personal journals in chronological order.
Adam’s name was more ancient than he was | Journal of Heber C. Kimball –1845 | |
Adam holds the keys of the resurrection | Journal of Wilford Woodruff -1845 | |
No better man lived than Joseph Smith | J of D 1:41 | |
Adam came to Eden with a celestial, resurrected body | J of D 1:46-51 –1852 | |
Eve was one of his wives (inferring he had others) | Ibid. | |
Adam helped create the world | Ibid. | |
Adam is our Father and God | Ibid. | |
Adam brought seed from another planet to this earth | Ibid. | |
Adam and Eve ate to become mortal to bear physical children | Ibid. | |
Jesus was born to Mary by the Father (Adam) | Ibid. | |
Negroes from degraded parents and are less intelligent than others | J of D 1:62-63 | |
I will unsheath my bowie knife, and conquer or die | J of D 1:83 | |
Jesus believed in polygamy | J of D 1:345-346 | |
Father Adam is the Father of Jesus Christ | J of D 2:6 –1853 | |
Jesus married in Cana | J of D 2:82 | |
Must do as Joseph Smith says | J of D 2:106 | |
God sent angel in First Vision | J of D 2:171 | |
Jesus married at Cana and begat children | J of D 2:210 | |
When God pours out the Holy Ghost the person will have spasms | J of D 2:269 | |
Angel says original Book of Mormon translated correctly | J of D 2:293 | |
If any miserable scoundrels come here, cut their throats | J of D 2:311 | |
God created man to become Gods | J of D 3:93 | |
Brigham Young an apostle of Joseph Smith | J of D 3:212 | |
Deny polygamy and you will be damned | J of D 3:266 | |
Adam helped make this world, was chief manager | J of D 3:319-320 | |
Adam brought animals and seed from other planets | Ibid. | |
Adam brought his wife here | Ibid. | |
Adam made from the dust of another earth | Ibid. | |
Adam was made as we are made (natural birth) | Ibid. | |
God – first man-Adam – sent his son to redeem the world | J of D 4:1,2,7 | |
Brigham to bow to Joseph Smith | J of D 4:41 | |
Select a place to shed blood | J of D 4:49 | |
Blood of Jesus doesn’t cover all sins | J of D 4:53-54 | |
We have the greatest and smoothest liars in the world | J of D 4:77 | |
We can beat the world at gambling | Ibid. | |
We can beat the world at any game | Ibid. | |
We pray the best, preach the best, sing the best | Ibid. | |
We expect to be a stumbling block to the whole world, and a rock of offence to them | Ibid. | |
The Father – an exalted man – begat spirits | J of D 4:215-219 | |
Father then commenced creating tabernacles | Ibid. | |
Father partook of course material – created children | Ibid. | |
Father’s Firstborn (spirit-child) sired by him personally | Ibid. | |
This is loving your neighbor – spill his blood | J of D 4:220 | |
If a man turns traitor to God, his blood will be shed | J of D 4:375 | |
All will someday look upon Joseph Smith as God | J of D 5:88 | |
Cursing enemies and President of U.S. | J of D 5:95 | |
President of U.S. cursed of God | J of D 5:133 | |
Deny polygamy and you deny Mormonism | J of D 5:203 | |
Brigham Young to be President of U.S. | J of D 5:219 | |
Adam is God | J of D 5:331-32, 1852 | |
I believe our God to be so near to us as Father Adam | J of D 5:331-332 | |
Michael was in the Grand Council before earth | Ibid. | |
At length you will meet Father Adam | Ibid. | |
Christians as ignorant as brut beast | J of D 6:25 | |
God did not come to Joseph Smith in First Vision | J of D 6:29 | |
God is our Father, Jesus Christ our Elder Brother | J of D 6:32 | |
Listen to your leaders – right or wrong | J of D 6:32 | |
Be as ready to shed blood as to eat an apple | J of D 6:34 | |
God is ever increasing in Knowledge | J of D 6:120 | |
Mormons – Saviors of the world | J of D 6:163 | |
Christianity a pact of nonsense | J of D 6:167 | |
Religions of the day hatched in hell | J of D 6:176 | |
Must confess with your mouth that Joseph Smith was a prophet | J of D 6:229 | |
Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost | J of D 6:274-275, 1852 | |
If worthy, we will become Adams and Eves | Ibid. | |
After exaltation we ingest gross matter to fall as Adam did | Ibid. | |
We will mortally clothe our spiritual offspring | Ibid. | |
Adam was not formed as an adobe brick | Ibid. | |
Book of Mormon condemns polygamy | J of D 6:351 | |
“I am hated for teaching…by which the Gods were and are” | J of D 7:3 | |
Wipe unclean one out of existence | J of D 7:19 | |
Jesus believed in severing heads of adulterers | J of D 7:20 | |
Mankind is offspring of parents from another planet | J of D 7:285-290 | |
Father was the father of Jesus Christ, body and spirit | Ibid. | |
Adam and Eve parents of spirits and flesh | Ibid. | |
Must have consent of Joseph Smith to enter heaven | J of D 7:289 | |
God was once a man | J of D 7:333 | |
Christians shrouded in ignorance | J of D 7:333 | |
Let every false theory and principle fall | J of D 8:132 | |
Christians are heathens as to the knowledgs of salvation | J of D 8:171 | |
Whoever doesn’t confess Joseph Smith is of God, is of the Antichirst | J of D 8:176 | |
Christians are ignorant | J of D 8:199 | |
God, a natural man, had a father | J of D 8:211 | |
Sisters to become Eves to earths like this | J of D 8:208 | |
Adam planted the Garden | J of D 8:243-244 | |
Adam brought animals from earth where he dwelt | Ibid. | |
Joseph Smith, a God to the Mormons. | J of D 8:321 | |
Keep your follies to yourselves | J of D 8:362 | |
Adam was not made of the dust of this earth | Diary of Hosea Stout Vol. 2:435, 1852 | |
Adam was the father of Jesus and Only God to us | Ibid. | |
Adam came to earth with a resurrected body | Journal of Wilford Woodruff, 1852 | |
Adam is Michael or God | Ibid. | |
Father came into the Garden of Eden with one of his wives | Ibid. | |
The Virgin Mary with child by the Father (Adam) | Ibid. | |
Father of Jesus Christ was Adam | Journal of William Clayton, 1852 | |
Adam came to this earth with a resurrected body | Journal of Samuel H. Rogers, 1852 | |
Spirits were begotten by Adam and Eve before this earth was created | Ibid. | |
Adam had a celestial body before earth | Ibid. | |
Adam helped make the earth | Ibid. | |
Adam brought Eve, one of his wives | Ibid. | |
Both Adam and Eve ate of the fruit to become mortal and thus beget children | Ibid. | |
Adam the only God we would have | Ibid. | |
Adam not formed of the dust of this earth | Millenial Star Vol. 15:780 –1853 | |
Adam – Our Father and God | Millenial Star Vol. 15:801-804, 1853 | |
Adam – Father and God of human family | Typescript of Brigham Young talk at University of Utah –1854 | |
Adam said, “This is my beloved Son, hear him.” | Journal of Wilford Woodruff, 1854 | |
God was Father Adam | Ibid. | |
Adam is the Father of Jesus Christ | Ibid. | |
Adam is our God, Michael the Archangel | Typescript of Brigham Young talk at University of Utah, 1854 | |
Adam begat Jesus Christ | Ibid. | |
Adam is the Ancient of Days | Ibid. | |
Adam had a mother and father (showing he grew up and lived on a previous earth) | Ibid. | |
Jesus Christ not begotten by the Holy Ghost | Journal of Wilford Woodruff, 1854 | |
Adam and Eve partook of fruit to bear mortal children in flesh | Ibid. | |
We will become Gods as he was (Adam) | Ibid. | |
Adam came from another world and brought Eve | Diary of Joseph Robinson p. 102, 1854 | |
Adam and Eve are the names of the first man and woman on every earth | Ibid. | |
Adam and Eve are natural parents of every spirit that comes to this earth | Ibid. | |
Adam was God our Eternal Father | Journal of Southern Indian Mission pp. 88-89, 1854 | |
Father of our spirits is the Father of Jesus Christ’s body and spirit | Ibid. | |
Father is the beginner of the bodies of all men | Ibid. | |
There is no Father without a grandfather etc. | Ibid. | |
Always an Adam and Eve as first man and woman on every earth | Ibid. | |
Adam and Eve’s oldest Son is heir and should be our Savior | Ibid. | |
Michael born on another planet, obeyed his Lord | Ibid. | |
Adam died, was resurrected on another planet | Ibid. | |
When Jesus complets his work, Adam has fulness | Ibid. | |
Adam organized people, redeemed world by his firstborn | Ibid. | |
All are children of Father Adam | Manusript History of Brigham Young in LDS Church Archives, 1854 | |
No grandfather without a great-grandfather | Ibid. | |
Eve not made of Adam’s rib | Ibid. | |
Adam not made of the dust of this earth | Ibid. | |
Adam made of the dust of the earth on which he was born | Ibid. | |
Adam lived, died, resurrected on a previous earth to this | Ibid. | |
Adam is the father of our spirits | Ibid. | |
Many of Adam’s wives also exalted previous to this earth | Ibid. | |
When Christ finishes his labors, Adam receives fullness | Ibid. | |
Christ is Adam’s servant (inferred) | Ibid. | |
Father Adam resurrected with wives and posterity (previous to this earth) | Ibid. | |
All human spirits begotten by Adam, born of Eve | Ibid. | |
Adam did not die here in the normal meaning of the term | Ibid. | |
Adam planted the Garden of Eden | Ibid. | |
Men to be crowned in Father’s (Adam’s) Kingdom | Ibid. | |
When you see Heavenly Father and Mother, it will be Adam and Eve | Ibid. | |
Jesus to take earth and saints to Father Adam | Ibid. | |
Our God is Adam | Journal of John Pulsipher, 1854 | |
Adam lived and died and was resurrected on another planet | Ibid. | |
Adam begat the spirits | Ibid. | |
Adam brought animals and vegatation from another world | Ibid. | |
On every earth a Adam and Eve is necessary | Ibid. | |
Adam’s oldest son, if faithful, is Savior | Ibid. | |
Adam is Father of our spirits | Ibid. | |
Adam and Eve made out of dust of another earth | Journal of Samuel Richards –1855 | |
Adam and Eve immortal and resurrected before this earth | Ibid. | |
Adam and Eve had to partake of fruit to bear natural bodies | Ibid. | |
Adam and Eve immortal and from another earth | Journal or Wilford Woodruff, 1855 | |
Adam assisted in forming this earth | Ibid. | |
Adam agreed to fall that man might be | Ibid. | |
Devil sowed seed of death in everything | Ibid. | |
Father Adam knew how many would receive Celestial glory | Ibid. | |
God continues to learn | Ibid. 1856 | |
Sons of perdition will dissolve back and loose identity | Ibid. | |
Orson Pratt refuses to believe Adam-God Doctrine | History of Samuel W. Richards, pg. 15, 1856 | |
Brigham Young defends Adam-God as “Thus saith the Lord” | Ibid. | |
Orson Pratt denies the Lord taught that doctrine to Brigham | Ibid. | |
Orson Pratt will never “be Adam” (Brigham’s words) | Ibid. | |
Brigham Young says O. Pratt’s unbelief will destroy him | Journal of Wilford Woodruff, 1856 | |
Orson Pratt promised never to futher oppose Adam-God Doctrine | Journal of Wilford Woodruff, 1858 | |
Orson Pratt defies Brigham again | Journal of Wilford Woodruff, 1860 | |
“I am not going to crawl to Brigham Young…” | Orson Pratt – Ibid. | |
Michael was a resurrected being before earth | Ibid. | |
Adam partook of earthly food – forgot all | Ibid. | |
Adam begot children who were mortal | Ibid. | |
Orson Hyde says Orson Pratt has not the spirit of God | Ibid. | |
C.C. Rich agrees, “Orson Pratt was wrong” | Ibid. | |
Orson Pratt confesses in tabernacle | Ibid. | |
“I have been too free in telling what God is…” | Brigham Young Deseret News, June27, 1860, pp. 129-130 | |
Our Father…will reign…over all his children | Ibid. | |
God revealed Adam-God to Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and George Cannon | Journal of Wilford Woodruff, 1860 | |
Sisters will have millions of children | Ibid. | |
Adam is all the God that we have to do with | Diary of John D. Lee 1861 | |
Adam’s children were conversant with Adam’s Father | J of D 9:148 | |
God is our physical father | J of D 9:283 | |
Whites who marry blacks [means] death on the spot | J of D 10:110 | |
Penalty if a white marries a black [means] death on the spot, always so | Ibid. | |
Spirit writing, known about | J of D 10:194 | |
Our Heavenly Father appeared and planted the Garden of Eden | J of D 10:222 | |
Civil War won’t free the slaves | J of D 10:250 | |
God the Father is the Ancient of Days | J of D 11:39-40 | |
He is the Father of Jesus Christ and our spirits | Ibid. | |
All who believe, are faithful and serve God become Gods | J of D 11:122 | |
God created man as we create our children | Ibid. | |
God is the Father of Jesus Christ, and our spirits | J of D 11:123 | |
Give up polygamy and the devil will rejoice | J of D 11:239 | |
God rules over his own progeny | J of D 11:262 | |
Mary, wife of Joseph, had another husband | God – J of D 11:268 | |
The only men who become Gods enter polygamy | J of D 11:269 | |
Ancient of Days to judge Israel | J of D 11:326-327 | |
We shall create people and redeem future worlds | Journal of Wilford Woodruff 1867 | |
Adam made this world | Ibid. | |
Sisters to become, “Mothers of all living” : Eves | J of D 12:97 | |
Adam was Michael the Archangel, Father of Jesus Christ | Journal of Wilford Woodruff 1867 | |
Joseph Smith taught Adam was Father of Jesus | Ibid. | |
Adam is the God we worship | Minutes of the School of the Prophets in Provo, Utah 1868 | |
Adam is the father of our spirits | Ibid. | |
The human family is the offspring of the Being we worship | J of D 12:324 | |
Angel visited Joseph Smith in First Vision | J of D 12:334 | |
Eve is a title – Relief Society sisters will be Eves | Millenial Star Vol. 31:267 | |
What Brigham Young preached is scripture | J of D 13:95 | |
Give up polygamy and you might as well give up prophets, apostles, and revelation | J of D 13:166 | |
Orson Pratt, “Adam is called an Archangel, yet he is a God.” | J of D 13:187 | |
Adam the Father of man’s spirits | Journal of Wilford Woodruff 1869 | |
Christians are the veriest of fools | J of D 13:225 | |
Adam-God taught by Jesus, Apostles, Joseph Smith | J of D 13:249-250 | |
Inhabitants on the sun | J of D 13:271 | |
Jesus’ “train” of wives and children | J of D 13:309 | |
Father of us all lost one third of his children | J of D 14:92-93 | |
We are the children of the Almighty – Adam | J of D 14:111 | |
We are God’s children, literally, spiritually, naturally | J of D 14:136 | |
We know more about God…than we care to tell | J of D 16:46 | |
What I know concerning God…I have received from the heavens | Ibid. | |
Take up the Bible,…see if the LDS will stand the test | Ibid. | |
Adam is our Father and God | Deseret News June 18, 1873, pp. 308-309 | |
God revealed this doctrine to me | Ibid. | |
Father Adam helped make this earth | Ibid. | |
Adam brought one of his wives…Eve | Ibid. | |
Adam holds keys of everlasting life and salvation | Ibid. | |
These doctrines taught to me by Joseph Smith | Ibid. | |
Jesus is the Son of God and still the Son of Man | Ibid. | |
These doctrines hidden from men | Ibid. | |
The faithful to create and people earths | Ibid. | |
Adam – the world’s framer and maker | Ibid. | |
Adam dwelt once on an earth like this | Ibid. | |
Adam brought down his spirit children | Ibid. | |
Adam Tabernacled his spirit children | Ibid. | |
There is no mystry to the Gods | Ibid. | |
God progresses | Ibid. | |
Adam assisted in organizing the earth | J of D 16:167 | |
Eve brought to Father Adam | Ibid. | |
No doubt Adam left many companions | Ibid. | |
Eve was Adam’s first wife | Ibid. | |
Mormons doing a great business in coffee, tea and tobacco | J of D 16:238 | |
When man fell, the earth fell into space | J of D 17:143 | |
This earth built for us by the Father of our Spirits | Ibid. | |
The Father is maker, framer and producer of mortal bodies | Ibid. | |
Joseph said Adam was our Father and God | Historical Record of Southern Utah Mission 1873-1877 | |
Gods live on the Sun | Ibid. | |
The sun has its people and its God | Brigham Young papers recorded by L. John Nuttall | |
The Savior presents the kingdom to the Ancient of Days | Ibid. | |
Jesus presents his work the Father | J of D 18:257-262 | |
Jesus says: “Father, here is the work thou gavest me to do.” | Ibid. | |
Father Adam’s oldest Son was Jesus the Savior | Veil Lecture in the St. George Temple as taken from the Diary of L. John Nuttall 1877-1905 | |
Adam not created of the dust of this earth | Ibid. | |
He was immortal before he came here | Ibid.< | |
He was born on another earth |
Ibid. | |
Adam was immortal before he came here | Ibid. | |
He lived, and was resurrected prior to this earth | Ibid. | |
He begot all the spirits of this earth | Ibid. | |
Eve bore all these spirits in the Celestial world | Ibid. | |
Father Adam’s first begotten in the Spirit World is heir | Ibid. | |
This heir is the only begotten in the flesh | Ibid. | |
Adam came in his divinity to Mary and she conveived | Ibid. | |
Adam and Eve did not lay their bodies in the dust | Ibid. | |
Mother Eve was the daughter of Adam | Journal of Wilford Woodruff, 1873 | |
Adam lived and resurrected on a previous earth | Manuscript History of Brigham Young in LDS Archives | |
Adam is the ancient of Days | Ibid. | |
God is the father of both bodies and spirits | Benjamin F. Johnson letter p. 18-19 | |
Angel visited Joseph Smith in First Vision | J of D 20:167 | |
Mormonism must be all true or else it is all false | J of D 21:165 | |
Blacks are Devil’s representatives on earth | J of D 22:304 | |
Blacks are Devil’s representatives on earth | J of D 23:336 | |
Joseph Smith taught that Adam had two wives | J of D 26:115 |
Adam – God Doctrine as found in the LDS Scriptures
Prince of all | D&C 27:11 |
Father of all | Ibid. |
Ancient of Days | Ibid. |
Archangel | D&C 107:54 and D&C 29:26 |
All dispensations revealed by Adam | D&C 128:21 |
Keys of Salvation | D&C 78:16 |
Keys of Resurrection | D&C 29:26 |
Detects Satan as Angel of light | D&C 128:20 |
Adam will bind Satan | D&C 88:110 |
Adam will declare all things finished | D&C 88:106 |
Adam the Seventh Angel or Archangel | D&C 88:111 |
Adam in charge of Hosts of Heaven | D&C 88:112 |
Adam in charge of Armies of Heaven | D&C 88:113 |
Adam will fight battles of Saints | D&C 88:115 |
Adam will give Jesus Christ a dominion, a glory, and a kingdom | D&C 7:9-14 |
Adam fell that men might be | 2 Nephi 2:25 |
“This is my beloved Son. Hear Him.” | |
Adam always reveals Christ | Joseph Smith 2:17 |
From “The Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith”
Adam was made to open the way of the world – p. 12
Adam presides over the spirits of all men – p. 157
Keys of the priesthood revealed by Adam’s authority – p. 157
Adam holds dominion over every living creature – p. 157
Adam calls children together for coming of the Son of Man – p. 157
Adam father of Human Family – p. 157
All who have held keys must stand before Adam – p. 157
Son of Man stands before Him (Man) (Adam) – p. 157
Adam holds Keys of Universe – p. 157
Adam gives Keys of Universe to Christ – p. 157
Adam retains standing as head of Human Family – p. 157
The Father (Adam) called all spirits before him at the creation of man – p. 158
Adam organized all spirits at the creation of man – p. 157
Adam is the head – p. 158
Adam was told to multiply (by his God, Jehovah) – p. 158
The keys were first given to Adam – p. 158
Adam gave keys to others – p. 158
Christ Great High Priest next to Adam – p. 158
Saints receive judgement from Adam – p. 159
Adam First and Father of all – p. 167
Adam reveals Christ to all – p. 167
Adam holds the keys of all dispensations – p. 167
Adam is the Ancient of Days – p. 167
Adam was the First Man – p. 167
Adam reveals all ordinances from Heaven – p. 168
Adam to watch over all ordinances (to be the same) – p. 168
Angels under the direction of Adam – p. 168
Adam acts under the direction of the Lord Jehovah – p. 168
Adam received commandments from God (Jehovah) – p. 168
Adam holds the keys of presidency over all dispensations – p. 169
Adam received his presidency and authority from the Lord – p. 169
Adam cannot receive a fullness until Christ shall present the kingdom to the Father – p. 169
God himself is the Father of us all – p. 346