Clark Braden, in debate with E. L. Kelley (RLDS) makes reference to Brigham Young's "Adam-God" doctrine and it being supported by the Book of Mormon.

Date
1913
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Clark Braden
Critic
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reprint
Reference

Clark Braden in Public Discussion of the Issues Between the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and The Church of Christ [Disciples], Held in Kirtland, Ohio, Beginning February 12th, and Closing March 8th, 1884 (Lamoni, Iowa: The Herald Publishing House, 1913), 163

Scribe/Publisher
Herald Publishing House
People
E. L. Kelley, Brigham Young, Clark Braden, Sidney Rigdon, Adam
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

We are told on pages 505-506 that Jared's brother (I wonder if that fellow really had no name, if he was always anonymous?) said that Christ was literal flesh and blood, that Jesus showed himself to him as he did to the Nephites, after his resurrection, with his body of flesh, bones and blood. This flatly contradicts the positive declarations of the Bible, that he first tabernacled in flesh, became incarnate, in the person of Mary. That he took on him the seed of Abraham. That his human nature was of the seed of Abraham, was a lineal descendant of Abraham. That his body was prepared for him when he came to do God's will, or in the person of Mary. Here we are told that he showed that body to this anonymous fellow of Sidney Rigdon's creation, hundreds of years before Abraham or any of his seed existed, and thousands of years before he became incarnate, according to the Bible. We are further told that man's body is an exact image or copy of God's body. Then God has a literal body of literal flesh, blood and bones, notwithstanding Jesus says "God is a Spirit," and "spirit has not flesh and bones." Of course, then God has organs of eating, digesting, evacuation, procreation, and uses them, or he eats, digests, evacuates and procreates like man, and Priapus Young's Adam-God theory is true according to the Book of Mormon.

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