I’ve never heard anyone, mormon or not, ever claim that adam is god
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It was a teaching of Brigham Young, one that has been downplayed, ignored, and lied to outsiders about by the LDS in the last 20 years or so.
Before that, however, it was a common and open belief that Adam was God the Father in the flesh. It is called the Adam-God doctrine. When I was LDS, I had an LDS tract that defended the doctrine (published in 1988).
Here is a link to more information:
http://utlm.org/topicalindexa.htm#Adam-God%20Doctrine
You know darn well reaganaut it was never LDS doctrine only an opinion of BY.
“This is an old question. It was asked of the Prophet Joseph Smith and answered by him. He writes in his journal, “This morning . . . I visited with a brother and sister from Michigan, who thought that ‘a prophet is always a prophet’; but I told them that a prophet is a prophet only when he was acting as such” (Joseph Smith, _History of the Church_, 5:265).
“That statement makes a clear distinction between official and unofficial actions and utterances of officers of the Church. In this recorded statement the Prophet Joseph Smith recognizes his special right and duty, as the President and Prophet of the Church, under the inspiration of the Lord, to speak authoritatively and officially for the enlightenment and guidance of the Church.
But he claims also the right, as other men, to labor and rest, to work and play, to visit and discuss, to present his opinions and hear the opinion of others, to counsel and bless as a member of the Church