Mormonism has placed each believer into having to choose which Prophets you believe and which Prophets you don’t. Choosing which Prophets are right about the views they hold claiming they got them from God and which prophets were simply wrong claiming something came from God when it must surely be their own false view since the views are contradictory. In the end the disagreement seems so obviously contradictory that one must choose one claim over the other which leaves them dismissing a prophet and having that prophet apparently unable to discern between the voice of God and his own false imagination. And once you admit that prophets and those who place faith in them are no more able to discern truth from error via the Holy Ghost…… Then how does one navigate with certainty about their own spiritual knowings and those of the prophets when one could be misled this easily. And the Cherry on top is the LDS Church’s continued Deception around the issue including misleading members by articulating the issue as if Brigham didn’t teach it through their talks, the Church manuals, and private letters demanding silence.
RESOURCES:
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Question:Was_the%22Adam-God%22_theory_ever_taught_as_part_of_the_temple_endowment_ceremony_as_something_called_%22the_lecture_at_the_veil%22%3F
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1975/04/a-self-inflicted-purging?lang=eng
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1976/10/our-own-liahona?lang=eng
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1980/10/adam-the-archangel?lang=eng
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/bruce-r-mcconkie/seven-deadly-heresies/#byu-header
http://www.eugeneengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/BRM-to-EE-Feb-80-Combined.pdf
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/teachings-brigham-young/chapter-14?lang=eng
https://journalofdiscourses.com/9/27
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/teachings-brigham-young/chapter-4?lang=eng
https://www.journalofdiscourses.com/1/8
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Thank you for this podcast. Well done and fascinating. Here’s a link to the Dialogue article from Gary Bergera:
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V15N01_16.pdf
I recently found this poem from the esteemed church poetess Eliza Snow, wife of Joseph Smith, wife of Brigham Young, and sister of Lorenzo Snow. An excerpt:
“Father Adam, our God, let all Israel extol,
And Jesus, our Brother, who died for us all;
All the praise is imperfect, we now can bestow…”
(Eliza Snow, Jan 9, 1855, published in Millennial Star vol 17, page 320)
https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/MStar/id/17221/