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New Never-Before-Published Adam–God Minutes
Date: Friday, May 15, 2026 at 7:00 AM
It is well know that there are dozens and dozens of sources regarding Brigham Young’s teaching that came to be known as the Adam–God Doctrine. It was not a simple one-time misquote, and it was recorded in numerous sources besides the Journal of Discourses. Wilford Woodruff recorded many entries in his journal discussing the Adam–God Doctrine, and many other diaries, letters, minutes, and other publications record this teaching from the time it was first publicized on April 9, 1852 until the Church began to condemn the teaching during Joseph F. Smith’s church presidency.
Brigham’s teaching in a nutshell was that God the Father first procreated our spirit bodies in the pre-existence, then the Father fell into mortality to act as the first man Adam to give physical bodies for his spirit children. Brigham understood that our Father was Michael in the Creation account in the Endowment, and Michel acted under the direction of two higher Gods, represented as “Jehovah” and “Elohim”, in performing the Creation.
In 2022 I published four issues of One Eternal Round addressing the Adam–God Doctrine. These papers were issues #21 “An Introduction to the Adam–God Doctrine,” issue #22 “A History of the Adam–God Doctrine,” issue #23 “The Adam–God Doctrine in the Endowment,” and issue #24 “Answering Questions and Contradictions to the Adam-God Doctrine.” I’ve also given a series of video presentations about the Adam–God Doctrine that can be found here.
Recently, a new, never-before-published Adam-God source was transcribed and digitized but set to private on the LDS Church’s Church History catalog. Privileged special access began to be given to it for use among researchers; but now has recently been made publicly available online. It is a new account of the April 4, 1860 meeting of the Quorum of the Twelve where Brigham Young and Orson Pratt had a heated discussion about their ideas relating to Diety, and Orson Pratt particularly complained about Brigham Young’s teachings regarding Adam.
George D. Watt was present for the April 4, 1860 meeting of the Quorum of the Twelve where Brigham Young and Orson Pratt clashed over Brigham’s Adam–God teachings and Orson Pratt’s unique theological teachings. Previously, researchers have only had Thomas Bullock’s longhand minutes to work with – George D. Watt’s shorthand minutes are significantly more detailed and capture many aspects of the conversation in a lot more detail that Bullock did. Significantly, many new comments about Adam–God were recorded in Watts’ minutes, including strong statements by Brigham Young that he had “personal positive knowledge” the doctrine was taught by Joseph Smith, and that not only did he know it but “so did Brother [Heber C.] Kimball and Willard Richards.”
Some of the new key Adam–God statements are as follows:
“Who was preaching the doctrine of Adam being our Father? To my personal positive knowledge that was Joseph’s doctrine and what he believed. You perhaps never heard him say it, — but I have and so did Brother [Heber C.] Kimball and Willard Richards — that that was his belief and what he knew and he said that every one of us that kept the celestial law would be Adams too.” — Brigham Young (Shorthand Minutes of a Meeting of the Quorum of the Twelve, Transcribed by LaJean Carruth <4 April 1860> page 26, punctuation and grammar corrected)
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Issues #19 to #24 of One Eternal Round now available!
Date: Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 4:30 PM
One Eternal Round issues #19 to #24
Six new issues of One Eternal Round are now available! These latest six issues complete Volume 2 of One Eternal Round. Two of them deal with Priesthood and Succession relating to Brigham Young and the apostles being called to lead the Church after Joseph Smith was killed (issues #19 and #20). Issues #21 to #24 deal with the Adam-God Doctrine. Issue #21 An Introduction to the Adam-God Doctrine and issue #22 A History of the Adam-God Doctrine are available as free downloads. Read More...
One Eternal Round issues #13 to #18 now available!
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 7:45 PM
One Eternal Round issues #13 to #18
Six new issues of One Eternal Round are now available! While the first twelve issues of One Eternal Round dealt with priesthood, these issues focus on addressing doctrinal controversies, ranging from Joseph Smith teaching that Animal Sacrifice would be restored, the priesthood ban, the evidence whether the Council of Fifty was a priesthood body or not, and the evidence that Joseph Smith practiced polygamy. Pamphlets can be purchased individually, but are cheaper in bundle options. Bundle options are listed here. Issue #18 Joseph Smith's Polygamy: Fact or Fiction? is available as a free download here. Read More...
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Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 7:45 PM
One Eternal Round Free Downloads
Four issues of One Eternal Round are currently available to download for free. Two of the issues, issue #10 and #11 are available here. One Eternal Round #1 The Nauvoo Priesthood Developments is also available to download here. And more recently, issue #18 Joseph Smith's Polygamy: Fact or Fiction? is available to download here, and issue #21 An Introduction to the Adam-God Doctrine and issue #22 A History of the Adam-God Doctrine are available as free downloads as well.
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One Eternal Round issues #6 to #12 now available!
Date: Sunday, August 2, 2020 at 11:45 PM
One Eternal Round issues #6 to #12
The second half of the first volume of One Eternal Round is now available, so volume 1 of One Eternal Round is now complete! A special thanks to those individuals who are subscribers, for motivating me to be consistently researching and writing! Being a Subscriber has its perks — as subscribers get the pamphlets mailed out before anyone else.
These new issues cover a variety of topics from the office of Presiding Patriarch and the One Anointed and Appointed, to the Council of Fifty, Patriarchal Succession, and more!
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Date: Sunday, August 2, 2020 at 11:30 PM
A special thanks to all subscribers to One Eternal Round! Subscribing gets the latest issues in pamphlet format mailed to you as soon as they are available, at a discounted price. Our Subscription Option is $5.00 per issue + shipping ($1.50 United States, $4.90 International). You can also stay up to date with One Eternal Round by following One Eternal Round on Facebook or by joining our Facebook group! Read More...
Website Launch and One Eternal Round #6 coming soon!
Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 7:00 AM
Even though I have had this website up for the last several months, it didn’t have much content and didn’t look very nice. Hopefully both of those things have changed!
If this is your first visit to OneEternalRound.org, I highly recommend downloading a free copy of One Eternal Round issue #1 “The Nauvoo Priesthood Developments” here! It includes a 28 page introduction to the new orders of priesthood Joseph Smith was beginning to teach the saints about in Nauvoo, as well as a new amalgamation of Joseph Smith “Three Grand Orders” speech on priesthood, that will be more enlightening when taken in the context of the totality of what the Prophet was teaching in Nauvoo about priesthood.
It might be worth sharing that one early purchaser, who bought a set of the first 5 issues of One Eternal Round based on the pamphlet descriptions in their introductions alone, remarked after reading them “PERFECT!!! Better than described!”
Another scholar who read the first 5 issues commented that they thought One Eternal Round issue #4 “New Light on Joseph Smith’s Last Charge” was one of the “best informational presentations on the [Council of Fifty] printed so far.”
The last several days I have published four articles on historical topics about priesthood, containing free information that is supplementary to the content published in One Eternal Round magazine.
The four articles are:
The Patriarchal Priesthood in Nauvoo
The Patriarchal Priesthood of Kings and Priests
The Highest Order of the Melchizedek Priesthood
Joseph Smith’s “Three Grand Orders” Speech
Additionally, a set of the first 5 issues of One Eternal Round for $25.00 to the United States (with free shipping) or a digital set of the first five issues of One Eternal Round for $10.00! You can also stay up to date with One Eternal Round by following One Eternal Round on Facebook or by joining our Facebook group!
Also I am pleased to announce that One Eternal Round Issue #6 “The One Anointed and Appointed” is getting closer to being available! I was expecting to be able to compile the history of this office in Nauvoo and Utah easily in a 30 page pamphlet. However, in compiling and writing the historical background to sources, what I was writing became to long to be a single pamphlet, and so I have decided to split it in half, with one first 50 page pamphlet being Nauvoo-era sources on the “One Anointed and Appointed” expected to be available next week, and then a second pamphlet documenting this office in the Utah period will be released next month!
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Magazine Launch!
Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 9:00 PM
On Saturday, August 3, 2019 at the 2019 Sunstone Summer Symposium in Salt Lake City, Utah, I announced a new magazine One Eternal Round at the end of my presentation “Joseph, Brigham, John, and the King over Israel Coronation”. At that release, I made the first 5 issues of One Eternal Round available to purchase at the symposium. These are now available to purchase now online, both in physical and digital formats! Read More...
Website Announcement
Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 10:00 PM
Welcome to OneEternalRound.org! This website will be a place for me to share research files and articles I've written that relate to Mormon History and Theology. Read More...