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Mormonism’s Adam God Doctrine Never Existed ?

Mormon Discussions Podcasts – Full Lineup

Bill Reel

Religion & Spirituality

4.3618 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 172 minutes

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Summary

Mormonism Live’s Bill Reel & RFM dive deep into a recent claim by Ward Radio that the so-called “Adam God Doctrine” never existed. They sift through the documentary history, the original speeches, journal entries, and the commentary of leading Mormon scholars to see if the claim holds up. Did the doctrine ever exist? Was it… Read More »Mormonism’s Adam God Doctrine Never Existed ?

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0:00.0

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Mormonism Live. Rfm. How are you this evening?

0:07.7

I am great. Thank you. You know, there's no place I'd rather be on a Wednesday evening than here with you and everybody else out there who's watching live on Mormonism Live.

0:17.2

Yeah, good to see all of you. I noticed that you've got a really cool shirt on. Do you want to show folks that one?

0:22.7

I do. I have a really cool shirt on, which means Marvel, right? There you go. Spider-Man.

0:30.0

Nice, nice. What is that? That's the first issue of Spider-Man, I think. Not the amazing Spider-Man, of course. This is one that Todd McFarlane did the artwork for before he went off and did spawn and a bunch of other very successful ventures on his own.

0:45.8

Is that the Mormon kid who put the CES letter in one of the comics?

0:50.0

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's a different person altogether. And actually, he raised a bit of a rucket, so I'm not even sure I'm going to mention his name.

0:59.3

Well, you know, shit happens.

1:02.3

But he's a great guy.

1:03.9

I love his artwork, and he's a fantastic human being, too.

1:07.9

Yeah, yeah.

1:09.8

So tonight, you came across something maybe a week ago or so.

1:15.6

Yes, I stepped in it. It got on me. Tell us about what prompted our conversation tonight.

1:22.3

Well, I was just scrolling, you know, through the YouTube feed. And that's when I stepped in.

1:26.9

And I said, what the heck is this?

1:28.5

And it was a psych ward radio video that came out a week or so ago. I'm not sure. No, it's just

1:35.9

three, four days ago now. I think that's it. Yes. And they've got Jonah Barnes, aka Captain

1:42.2

Apocrypha, pontificating on there, according to the thumbnail about

1:46.7

how it is that actually Brigham Young never really even taught the Adam God theory.

1:52.0

Yeah, and I watched this whole thing. Before we even watched it, we decided, you know,

1:56.9

let's leave open the option that this is something we covered tonight. I was actually preparing an episode on Oliver Cowdery.

2:03.5

I've been working on, let me change the, this here.

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