The Adam-God Doctrine

What is called the Adam-God doctrine should not be interpreted in the genre of dogmatic orthodoxy. The word “doctrine” refers more to a constellation of teachings which express a cohesive ideology or belief about the divinity of Adam. Although a fullness has as yet not been revealed, we have sufficient information from the teachings of church prophets to construct a fairly complete outline of the concepts that ideology or doctrine embodies. These concepts, pertaining exclusively to the gods within the eternal patriarchal order, include:

A. God our Father is a being currently abiding the laws of eternal progression. He, like us, will continue to progress throughout all eternity; hence, eternal progression.

B. God the Father merited His current status as a deity through obedience to laws of progression the same as you and I are now attempting to do.

1. This means that God was once a man like us.

2. That He lived a mortal existence analogous to our present mortal existence.

3. There He obeyed and kept the celestial law.

4. In that existence, He received effication of an atonement through a savior.

5. Having kept the celestial law, He was resurrected with a celestial glory having the promise of eternal increase.

6. He assumed His position among the gods in the eternal patriarchal order.

7. As a member of the patriarchal gods, He commenced the realization of His promised blessings by becoming a spiritual creator under the council and direction of His patriarchal superiors.

a. Known then as Michael, He received the direction and keys from His father to commence a spiritual creation.

b. The spiritual creation included mankind and all life that dwells on the earth.

c. As the Father of our spirits, it was His (Michael’s) responsibility to oversee and direct our spiritual progression.

d. Jesus Christ, you and I are the progeny of that spirit creation and are all of the same spiritual generation; i.e., brothers and sisters.

e. Anther council was held to plain the temporal creation. In this council Jesus Christ was chosen to be the atoning Savior for His father’s creations.

8. The Father, Michael, proceeded with the temporal phrase of creation which was necessary for the progression of his spiritual creations.

9. The temporal creation included a world of gross matter by organization and all life forms with physical tabernacles provide by procreation through transplantation from another physical world.

10. Human life was transplanted from another world to this earth by the following schema:

a. Michael, our spirit father, became Adam after having been “prepared” and placed in the Garden of Eden under the direction of God (Michael’s patriarchal father).

b. His preparation included a “veil of forgetfulness” concerning His former existence.

c. Adam “fell” from a higher or more exalted state of existence to a lower state.

1) Exactly how the fall was effected and what the symbology represents are conjectural; however, the concept is that Adam’s celestial body was rendered mortal such that He could then procreate physical tabernacles for His spirit offspring.

2) The fall may have been effected by Adam’s partaking of coarse elements of this earth until His body became “charged” with the seeds of mortality.

3) As mortal beings Adam and Eve began procreating temporal bodies for their spiritual offspring to inhabit. In this way, human life was brought to another reach of the universe on a procreative basis.

11. Having accomplishes His mortal mission, Adam, possessing the keys and power over death from a previous resurrection, effected a transition from mortality to His former glorified state.

12. This same father, who had been known as Michael and Adam, later appeared to and overshadowed Mary in the meridian of time, fathering our Savior Jesus Christ as the Only Begotten of the father in the flesh.

13. Prior to the millennium, Adam our Father will appear at Adam-ondi-Ahman. All, including Christ, who have held the keys will stand before Him and give unto Him an accounting of their stewardships.

a. Adam will increase Christ’s stewardship to include the entire world, giving Christ power and authority to reign for a thousand years.

b. Adam will confer upon Christ the keys of the universe.

14. Adam (Michael) has power over Satan and will ultimately rout the forces of evil, banishing them to perdition forever.

15. Adam as Michael will initiate the resurrection with the sound of His trumpet.

16. At the end of the world, Christ renders up His kingdom to Father Adam, who in turn renders His kingdom to His father and so on. Father Adam then advances by inheriting His father’s kingdom just as Christ inherits His father’s (Ada’s) kingdom. In this way the Savior treds in the tracks of Adam just as Adam treds in the tracks of His father, and so on.

17. As resurrected beings who have kept the celestial law with the promise of eternal increase, we may have the opportunity of becoming Adam’s and Eve’s to other worlds.