Solomon Stephens identifies the God of this world with Adam; Adam and Christ is the same person.

Date
1898
Type
Book
Source
Solomon Stephens
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Solomon Clinton Stephens, The Philosophy of the Earth and of Man (Ogden, UT: W.W. Browning & Co., 1898), 64-66, M230 S935p, Church History Library

Scribe/Publisher
W.W. Browning & Co.
People
Solomon Stephens
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

The sun was once a terrestrial planet like the one on which we dwell, or the earth, and of necessity must have been inhabited by mortal beings similar to ourselves, that for the same wise purpose passed through the same things that we are passing through, having a Christ for a Creator. Mediator, Savior and Redeemer. There Must have been the Gospel to teach men the way back to their God. In God’s (that is, their God’s) time that planet became, after passing through its different changes, a celestial planet, being a planet that furnished light, rather than borrow light from another, and of necessity the inhabitants had to keep pace with the planet on which they dwelt, or be forced to leave it, as it is written, that he who cannot live a celestial law cannot abide a celestial glory. It is written that things spiritual are in likeness of things temporal, and vice versa, so we must accept this theory, or rather, truth.

In the due time of the Gods on the sun, we will say with their children, many of whom were not so diligent in their mortal state as they should have been, because very numerous, the time had come for the creating or the establishing of a world or this earth, whereupon a certain number of those on the sun (a certain man’s family, we will say, the person like unto the Son of God) might go to and pass through another probation, that by suffering they might learn obedience, the same as if one does not learn the lesson in the first school, instead of sending him on to a college without being prepared, he is sent back to learn his lesson, and so on, until he is prepared to enter college.

At that time the head God of the Gods, called the Gods together and appointed to us or the to be inhabitants of the earth our God, which we must acknowledge as our Heavenly Father, who will be the king of Kings, who will be the Creator Mediator, Savior and Redeemer of the people and the earth on which we dwell.

Let us call the head God of Gods the Christ of the sun, or the Ancient of Days of the same, who to us is Eloheim, our grand-father, our father being his son, that is the Only Begotten of him, and we begotten sons and daughters unto him or his grand-children.

The earth, the people, and all cattle, fowls, fishes, creeping things, and birds, of all kinds, and the vegetable kingdom, were all created spiritually in Heaven at that time by what is called the God-head, Eloheim, Yahova and Michael, representing the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; Eloehim the Christ of the sun, Yahova, the law, love between male and female, and the principle by which all things are crated or made, the spirit that is in all things both in Heaven and earth, and the Son, being Michael, the one represented as being he who said, I will go and give Three the glory; who was the one God, that was appointed unto us, who is our father in Heaven and always will be. He is the Father of our spirits, or of us spiritually in Heaven, is our Father in mortality, and will be our Father again in immortality, when this world becomes a celestial, or a planet full of life and light, he having peopled it, being he who will subdue redeem and save it; being Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.

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