The Seventy's Course in Theology, Second Year: Outline History of the Dispensations of the GospelRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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The Seventy's Course in Theology, Second Year: Outline History of the Dispensations of the Gospel
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
_6. The Gospel Fully Revealed to Adam:_ It would seem also that
Adam about this time received even more full explanations respecting
his redemption than is given in the passage of the Book of Moses,
quoted in the foregoing note; for in the passage attributed to Enoch
sometime after the event above quoted, it is said: "And he [God]
called upon * * * Adam by his own voice, saying: I am God; I made
the world, and men before they were in the flesh. And he also said
unto him: If thou wilt turn unto me, and hearken unto my voice, and
believe, and repent of all thy transgressions, and be baptized, even
in water, in the name of mine Only Begotten Son, who is full of grace
and truth, which is Jesus Christ, the only name which shall be given
under heaven, whereby salvation shall come unto the children of men,
ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, asking all things in his
name, and whatsoever ye shall ask, it shall be given you. And our
father Adam spake unto the Lord, and said: Why is it that men must
repent and be baptized in water? And the Lord said unto Adam: Behold I
have forgiven thee thy transgression in the Garden of Eden. Hence came
the saying abroad among the people, That the Son of God hath atoned
for original guilt, wherein the sins of the parents cannot be answered
upon the heads of the children, for they are whole from the foundation
of the world. And the Lord spake unto Adam, saying: Inasmuch as thy
children are conceived in sin, even so when they begin to grow up, sin
conceiveth in their hearts, and they taste the bitter, that they may
know to prize the good. And it is given unto them to know good from
evil; wherefore they are agents unto themselves, and I have given unto
you another law and commandment. Wherefore teach it unto your children,
that all men, everywhere, must repent, or they can in no wise inherit
the kingdom of God, for no unclean thing can dwell there, or dwell in
his presence; for, in the language of Adam, Man of Holiness is His
name, and the name of his Only Begotten is the Son of Man, even Jesus
Christ, a righteous judge, who shall come in the meridian of time.
Therefore, I give unto you a commandment, to teach these things freely
unto your children, saying: That by reason of transgression cometh the
fall, which fall bringeth death, and inasmuch as ye were born into the
world by water, and blood, and spirit, which I have made, and so became
of dust a living soul, even so ye must be born again into the kingdom
of heaven, of water, and of the Spirit, and be cleansed by blood, even
the blood of mine Only Begotten; that ye might be sanctified from all
sin, and enjoy the words of eternal life in this world, and eternal
life in the world to come, even immortal glory. * * * * And it came to
pass, when the Lord had spoken with Adam, our father, that Adam cried
unto the Lord, and he was caught away by the Spirit of the Lord, and
was carried down into the water, and was laid under the water, and
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