Later distancing from the teaching led leaders to downplay its status or even outright deny that it was ever taught (using the rhetoric that Brigham Young was misunderstood and/or his statements were deliberately taken out of context by Church enemies), but this simply isn’t the case. Indeed, although never presented to the Church membership for approval or made official through insertion in scripture (unless one wants to think of the lecture given before the veil in the temple as “scripture”?) it is hard to deny that for several decades of the Nineteenth Century the doctrine spelled out the dominant understanding among Latter-day Saints of God(s) and roles for humans who would some day become exalted beings. When Brigham Young first taught in initial outlines of what is now known as the “Adam-God Doctrine” (or the “Adam-God Theory”-the preferred term by those who want to downplay its status within LDS doctrinal development) some commented that with this theological position the cat was truly “out of the bag!” It came as a huge surprise to almost all who heard him preach it, but soon most leaders and members came to accept it and even like it very much. 177: The Adam-God Doctrine, Part 2 Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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