Saturday, October 9, 2021

Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball: Seeds and Animals Were Brought from Other Planets During the Genesis Creation

 Brigham Young on seeds bring brought from other planets

 

They [the Gods] came here, organized the raw material, and arranged in their order the herbs of the field, the trees, the apple, the peach, the plum, the pear, and every other fruit that is desirable and good for man; the seed was brought from another sphere, and planted in this earth. (JOD 1:50|April 9, 1852)

 

He [Adam] was the person who brought the animals and the seeds from other planets to this world. (JOD 3:319|April 20, 1856)

 

Shall I say that the seeds of vegetables were planted here by the Characters that framed and built this world—that the seeds of every plant composing the vegetable kingdom were brought from another world? This would be news to many of you. Who brought them here? It matters little to us whether it was John, James, William, Adam, or Bartholomew who brought them; but it was some Being who had power to frame this earth with its seas, valleys, mountains, and rivers, and cause it o teem with vegetable and animal life. (JOD 7:285|October 9, 1859)

 

Heber C. Kimball on Animals being brought from other planets

 

After the earth was made, then there was a garden spot selected, and the Lord commanded some of his associates to go and plant it, and to cause all kinds of vegetation to grow, and fruits of every description. Some suppose the Lord commanded all these things to come out of the earth. Yes, he did, after the seeds were put in the earth; and he blessed the earth, and the vegetation that was in the earth. When all these things were done, the garden was beautified, and made pure, and clean and holy and sanctified; and then the next thing was to bring forth the animal creation; but the animals were not brought there until the vegetation was planted and grown. . . . When he [Adam] planted the garden, he planted it with seeds he brought with him; and he also brought the animals from the earth he lived upon, where his Father dwelt. (JOD 8:243-44|June 12, 1860