Mark E. Petersen teaches Adam is not the Father of our spirits; instead, he is an angel.

Date
Oct 4, 1980
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Mark E. Petersen
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Mark E. Petersen, "Adam the Archangel," October 1980 General Conference, accessed February 20, 2022

Scribe/Publisher
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
People
Mark E. Petersen, Adam
Audience
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Transcription

Adam was not our God, nor was he our Savior. But he was the humble servant of both in his status as an angel.

Then what is his relationship to the Savior and to God our Father?

Jesus Christ is the divine Son of God, the first born to our Heavenly Father in the spirit and the Only Begotten in the flesh.

Jesus is the Holy One of Israel, not Adam, not anyone else. Although we are all spirit children of the Father, Jesus is the Only Begotten of the Father, in mortality, even from the beginning, not Adam, not anyone else (see Moses 5:9). This the Lord himself says.

In the day that the gospel was given to Adam, the Holy Ghost fell upon him, and the divine voice of Jesus Christ—the Jehovah of that time—said to him by the power of the Holy Ghost: “I am the Only Begotten of the Father from the Beginning” (Moses 5:9).

Then, can anyone claim that distinction for Adam, or for anyone else? Of course not! Jesus Christ is the Only Begotten of the Father, even from the very beginning.

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