Wilford Woodruff, in his journal, records Brigham Young teaching that Adam helped organize this earth; Adam and Eve were immortal when they arrived in Eden.

Date
May 6, 1855
Type
Personal Journal / Diary
Source
Brigham Young
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Summary
Reference

Wilford Woodruff, Journal, May 6, 1855, Journal (January 1854 – December 1859): 63-64

Scribe/Publisher
Wilford Woodruff
People
Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, Orson Pratt, John Young, Orson Hyde
Audience
N/A
Transcription

6th Sunday John Young preached in the Tabernacle in the forenoon. George Q Cannon preached in the afternoon concerning His mission to the Islands the customs of the Natives the special manifestations of the work of God among them certain acts customs, & deeds which if men practiced they were to suffer death. He was followed By President Young in an interesting discourse upon the subject of our building up the Kingdom of God, Having faith, trusting in God under all circumstances in life his discourse was reported. I attended the Prayer circle whare I herd some interesting teaching from President Young in social conversation which was not reported. the following is a key to some of the principles He advanced. He refered to the preaching of Orson Pratt & Orson Hyde the sabbath before upon the subject of the resurrection. He said the Identical particles of matter in which we had honored our spirits with ie our tabernacles in which we had suffered travelled, laboured, & built up the kingdom of God that would be the Identical body & no other that would be raised from the grave to immortality & Eternal life. Adam & Eve had lived upon another Earth were immortal when they came here Adam assisted in forming this Earth & agreed to fall when He came Here & He fell that man might be & the opposite principle to good the devel, the serpent, the Evil was plased upon the Earth that man might know the good from the Evil for without an Experi[en]ce in these things man could not know the one from the other as soon as the devil was on Earth He sowed the seeds of Death in evry thing so as soon as they began to eat of the fruit of the Earth they received into their system the seeds of mortality & of Death so their children wer mortal & subject to death sorrow pain & wo then when they partook of life, Joy, ease, & Happiness they would know how to prize it Father Adam would never seease his labours to redeem his posterity & exhalt them to all the glory they were capable of receiving. He did not doubt but that Father Adam knew in the beginning how many of his posterity would receive a Celestial glory & who they were & also a Terrestrial & a Telestial yet man had his agency to act chuse & refuse good or evil as seemed him good & he would be rewarded according to his works. O. Pratt asks will Adam or any God continue to make worlds people them taste of Death to redeem them Answer I have no doubt but <it> is his privilege but whether that He will do it is a question in my mind. How then can his seed increase to all Eternity, through the increase of his posterity. many other remarks were made by the President

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