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*''Deseret News'', June 18, 1873.
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*''Daily Journal of Abraham H. Cannon'', March 10, 1888, vol.. 10, pp.178-79; original at Brigham Young University
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A FAIR Analysis of:
Criticism of Mormonism/Books
A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner

Claims made in Chapter 8: The Adam-God Doctrine

Page Claim Response Author's sources

192-193

Mormons consider the fall of Adam a fortunate event.
  • The fall entailed negative consequences, but it was a necessary event and did not take God by surprise.
  • Latter-day Saints do not blame all their ills on Adam and Eve for making a choice that could have been avoided.
  • Original sin
  • Doctrines of Salvation 1:114-115

193-195

Brigham Young preached that Adam was our God.

94Mysteries,_etc. Journal of Discourses 1:50-51].

196

Brigham continued to teach Adam-God.
  • Deseret News, June 18, 1873.

198

Adam was not created of the dust of this earth.
  •  [ATTENTION!]

198-199

Brigham taught that Adam is the only god that we should worship.

199

Brigham taught that Adam was the father of our spirits.
  • Women of Mormondom, p. 180

199

Brigham taught that Adam was the father of Jesus Christ.

200

Heber C. Kimball taught that Adam was the father of Jesus Christ

200

George Q. Cannon taught that Adam was the father of Jesus Christ.
  • Daily Journal of Abraham H. Cannon, March 10, 1888, vol.. 10, pp.178-79; original at Brigham Young University[citation needed]

202

Anyone who teaches Adam-God will be excommunicated. The Church is therefore inconsistent because it will excommunicate someone for believing something taught by one of its prophets.
  •  Author(s) impose(s) own fundamentalism on the Saints: