C. V. Waite claims many Church members were not accepting of Adam-God, causing Brigham Young to instruct Elders not to focus on teaching it; proposes Qur'an to be source of Brigham's theology.
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- Book
- Source
- C. V. Waite CriticNon-LDS
- Hearsay
- Direct
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C. V. Waite, The Mormon Prophet and His Harem; An Authentic History of Brigham Young, his Numerous Wives and Children (Chicago: J. S. Goodman and Company, 1867), 157
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- J. S. Goodman and Co.
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- Reading Public
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It is manifest that Young is not so much at home in theology as when engaged in financial schemes and money speculations. So disgusting and blasphemous are these ideas, and so unacceptable were they, even to Mormons, who were not prepared to see the basis of their religion thus rudely overthrown, that Brigham finally felt compelled to caution the Elders not to preach the new doctrine concerning Deity, until the people should be better prepared to receive them.
Mahomet is the great exemplar and prototype whom Brigham Young aims to imitate, and doubtless he took from the Koran his ideas about the deity of Adam. Thus in chapter two of the Koran, we have the following:—
"And when we said unto the angels, 'worship Adam', they all worshipped him, except Eblis, [Lucifer,] who refused."
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