The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-12-27

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Was it necessary that Adam
should partake Of the forbidden
fruit?
Yes, unless he had done SO
he would never have known good
and evil here, neither could he
have had mortal posterity, and
he could MOI have cleaved to Eve
as he had promised, after her
fall"
"Did Adam and Eve lament or
rejoice because they had trans
gressed the commandment, and
become acquainted with the ma.
ture of evil and good?n
God"
sis 1t proper for us to consider
the transgression Of Adam and
Eve as a grieyous calamity, and
that all mankind would have
been infinitely more happy if the
fall had not occurred?o
"No. But we ought to con.
slider the fall of our first parents
as one of the great steps to eter-
nal exaltation and happiness, and
one ordered by God in his inf
mite wisdom; for we cannot know
the excellence and beauty of that
which is good, unless we exper-
ience the wretohedness and de-
formity Of that which is evil"
'The Pearl of Great Price, /"
a book considered of divine au-
thority says:
In that day Adam blessed God,
and was filled, and began to
prophesy concerning all the fam
lilies of the earth; blessed be the
name of God for my transgres. |
sion; for in this life shall have
joy, and again in my flesh shall |
| see God. And Eve, his wife.
heard all these things, and was
glad, saying, Were it not for our
transgression we should never
had seed, and should never have
known good and evil, and the
JOY of our redemption, and the
eternal life which God giveth un-
to all the obedient. And Adam
and Eve blessed the name sd
God. (Pearl of Great Price, D.
15l. =
With reference to this passage
DR.. Osborn says:
Adam and God are here two
persons. Above in equally in
spired writings, they are one and
the same person. Mormonism is
consistent only in its inconsist-
encies. (The Mormon Doctrine OF
God and Heaven).
The Millennial Star saws:
Adam fell, but his fall became
matter Of necessity after the
woman had transgressed
In the language Of the Prophet ,
Lehi, "Adam fell that men might
be. No wonder Faith !
Or Adam fell, and accompanied j
lhe woman, sharing in all the ,
niseries of the curse, that he
might be the father of an innum- !
erable race of beings who would
be capable Of becoming Gods. I
(Vol. XIV, p. 801.
DR.. Osborn well remarks on
his doctrine: "Thus the fall Of !
Adam was no fall, but lifting
up. Sin was no sin, but an ACT |
II God and blessing. And the ,
lrst and greatest violator OF !
5od 9 law was God himself.,, /
III. But the Mormons not :
,nly believe that God is a manls
WITH Harts and passions, 2 thus
degrading him into low, NATE Z
'ial, sensual being; they not only !
believe that he was Adam, and (
Adam was God, thus making him h
nan in very tangible sense, and &
It the same time limiting and de- &
trading his powers, but they be.
leve that there are many Gods. A
nhey are not monotheists, but a
'olytheists, believing in pIu- +
atty OF Gods. and that Gods i
we're once men who afterwards Z
'ecame Gods. If this be doubt. +
q the proof is at hand. The i
Mormon Catechism ks: aAre a
here more Gods than one?'s I
Answer, "Yes, many ThelI,
Iext question is, Must we d
KQrEfip more than ono God tba n