Friday, August 19, 2022

Anti-Mormon Author Writing Under a Fake Name to Get Information from the First Presidency

  

Michael Marquar[d]t, an anti-Mormon writer, wrote a letter to the First Presidency of the Mormon Church recently under the assumed name of Janice Wilden, asking about the Adam-God Theory. It was answered by Francis M. Gibbons, secretary to the First Presidency, as follows:

 

"Dear Sister Wilden: I have been asked to acknowledge your letter dated December 3, 1976, to President Kimball about the so-called Adam-God theory, and to suggest that you obtain a copy of the book, Adam--Who Is He? by Elder Mark E. Petersen, which fully discusses the questions you raise." (Richard Stephen Marshall, "The New Mormon History" [B.A. thesis, University of Utah, May 1, 1977], 71-72)