Messenger
Adam and Eve are Us
Adam is Man
Although the name Adam doesn’t appear in the King James Version of the Bible until over half way through the second chapter of Genesis, in the original Hebrew language Adam appears in the first sentence regarding the creation of man and woman, when it tells us “God created man in His own image … male and female created He them.”1 The English translation of the word Adam is “man,” and is used to speak of both man and woman in this case. This concept is repeated again a few chapters later where it tells us “Male and female created He them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam”2 So whenever the word Adam appears it could be speaking of the first man on earth specifically, an individual man, a man and woman, or all of mankind.3
Man’s Destiny
Hast thou not been unwisely bold,
Man’s destiny to thus unfold?
To raise, promote such high desire,
Such vast ambition thus inspire?
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Popular Excuses Against Having More Children
The false ideas we believe when deciding not to have (more) children.
“We cannot afford to have children at the moment”
In this world in which meeting the cost of clothing and food for just a couple of adults seems too much, we may wonder how we could ever spare the money to feed another mouth. This may lead us to believe that it would be more responsible to wait until we have a higher income with which to pay for the many needs a child will have. Perhaps we already have children who are part of our little family, who seem to lack many of the things we would like to be able to buy them, and we worry that a new baby would leave us less able to meet their needs or wants.
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The Last Prophecies of John Taylor
Lorin Woolley’s account of John Taylor’s 1886 prophecies have come under suspicion, because - it is argued - they were written after the events came to pass. However, as this series of articles will show, similar prophecies predate Woolley’s account, and the prophecies themselves - which conflict with modern LDS Church views - have been fulfilled very literally, thus again substantiating Woolley’s account.
“I have saved my servant John Taylor for a wise purpose in me,”(1)» revealed the Lord to Wilford Woodruff in 1880. Yet most of that decade the Church President spent his days in hiding from the government that was imprisoning those Latter-day Saints who lived the principle of Celestial Plural Marriage, and his life during that time remains a mystery to most Church members, who are unaware of the great purpose he was to fulfil. During his stay in the home of John W. Woolley in Centreville, Utah, he was visited by the resurrected Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith, who instructed him how to ensure that the Priesthood of God and its highest ordinances continued, no matter what persecution may come and notwithstanding the direction others Latter-day Saints might take. He called together his most faithful associates and laid this great responsibility upon them, with all the authority they would require to carry out God’s work. After which, he foretold the future of those who had received this commission and those who would yet fulfill it, as well as the Church and the course it would take.(2)»
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Revelation to Wilford Woodruff, 26 January 1880, Unpublished Revelations 79:75.
27 September 1886, John W. Woolley Home, Centerville, Utah. As related by Lorin C. Woolley. (Woolley’s 1929 affidavit serves as the primary source for the text of these prophecies.)