Adam God.

Brigham was true to his promise in explaining to them how "Adam is my father"; read his explanation: "Now hear it, O inhabits of the earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came into the Garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives with him. He helped to make and organize this world. He is MICHAEL the Archangel, the ANCIENT OF DAYS! about whom holy men have written and spoken—He is our FATHER and our GOD, and the only god with whom WE have to do. Every man upon the earth, professing Christians or nonprofessing, must hear it, and will know it sooner or later. They came here, organized the raw material, and arranged in their order the herbs of the field, the trees, the apple, the peach, the plum, the pear, and every other fruit is desirable and good for man; the seed was brought from another spheres, and planted in this earth. The thistle, the thorn, the brier, and the obnoxious weed did not appear until after the earth was cursed. When Adam and Eve had eaten of the forbidden fruit, their bodies became mortal from its effects, and therefore their offspring were mortal. When the Virgin Mary conceived the child Jesus, the Father had begotten him in his own likeness. He was not begotten by the Holy Ghost. And who is the Father? He is the first of the human family; and when he took a tabernacle, it was begotten by his Father in heaven, after the same manner as the tabernacles of Cain, Abel, and the rest of the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve; from the fruits of the earth, the first earthly tabernacles were originated by their Father, and so on in succession. . . . Now, let all who may hear these doctrines, pause before they make light of them, or treat them with indifference, for they will prove their salvation or damnation.

"I have given you a few leading items upon this subject, but a great deal more remains to be told. Now, remember from this time forth, and for ever, that Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost."—Brigham Young, in Journal of Discourses, vol. 1, pp. 50, 51; Millennial Star, vol. 15, pp. 769, 770.

"Though we have it in history that our father Adam was made of the dust of the earth [Genesis 2:7], and that he knew nothing about his God previous to being made here, yet it is not so; and when we learn the truth we shall see and understand that he helped to make this world, and was the chief manager in that operation. He was the person who brought the animals and the seeds from other planets to this world, and brought a wife with him and stayed here. You may read and believe what you please as to what is found written in the Bible. Adam was made from the dust of an earth, but not from the dust of this earth. He was made as you and I are made, an no person was ever made upon any other principle."—Brigham Young, in Journal of Discourses, vol. 3, p. 319.

"Concerning the item of doctrine alluded to by Elder Caffall and others, viz, that Adam is our Father and God, I have to say do not trouble yourselves, neither let the Saints be troubled about that matter. . . . If, as Elder Caffall remarked, there are those who are waiting at the door of the church for this objection to be removed, tell such, the prophet and apostle Brigham has declared it, and that is the word of the Lord."—Franklin D. Richards, in Millennial Star, vol. 16, p. 534.

"This will be fully accomplished when every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess that he is the God of the whole earth. Then will the words of the Prophet Brigham, when speaking of Adam, be fully realized—'He is our Father and our God, and the only God with whom WE have to do.' Having now observed how Adam the first man became a God, we inquire why may not millions of his children receive the same godlike knowledge and power?"—Franklin D. Richards, in Millennial Star, vol. 17, p. 195.