Of All Things! Classic Quotations of Hugh Nibley, p 76; “Do not begrudge existence to creatures that looked like men long, long ago, nor deny them a place in God’s affection or even a right to exaltation, for our scriptures allow them such. Nor am I overly concerned as to just when they might have lived, for their world is not our world. They have all gone away long before our people ever appeared. God assigned them their proper times and functions. “Before Adam,” CWHN 1:82” – Hugh Nibley, edited by FARMS, 1991
Genesis 1:1, 26, 2:7; “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 27 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
Mr. Nibley’s comment totally contradicts Mormon theology (See DS at end of article) so we’re wondering why they’d allow this to be published. On the flip side of that, public school field trips in Utah were co-sponsored and hosted by leaders and teachers of the Mormon Church in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s when I attended.
Those field trips included day long visits to the dinosaur museums in Vernal, Utah. In those museums were 40’ tall floor to ceiling murals of the famous ape-turned-human drawings we see everywhere today depicting the evolutionary process of how man came into existence.
We’d return from our school outing and study evolution which just so happened to correspond with our Sunday school lessons at church on how God didn’t really create the earth.
Neither of these teachings are biblical and I’m wondering why they’d take the time to teach such things. The only purpose in either of those things is to confuse the young minds of those in attendance. God is clear in His word. He created the first man, Adam, in the Garden of Eden and breathed life into him! Everything else is foolish wives tales from the traditions of men.
Doctrines of Salvation 1:140; “EVOLUTIONARY THEORY FALSE. This idea that everything commenced from a small beginning, from the scum upon the surface of the sea, and has gradually developed until all forms of life, the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, the fishes of the sea, and the plants upon the face of the earth, have all sprung from that one source, is a falsehood absolutely. There is no truth in it, for God has given us his word by which we may know, and all who are led by the Spirit of God can understand through that Holy Spirit, the truth of these things.
Evolution, Organic – How foolish, how narrow, how contemptible it is for men professing to be men of intelligence and possessing scientific knowledge and wisdom, to declare that all life upon this earth is spontaneous, and to confess that they know nothing of any life upon any other world, and, moreover, to declare that the life here has all developed from the same single, simple source.” – Joseph Fielding Smith, 1955
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