Orson Pratt, in a sermon dated September 30, 1852, was reported as teaching that:
Brother Orson Pratt preached on the
subject of the resurrection of the dead, that they are to come out of their
graves, but said that he did not know how the power of God would operate to
raise them up from their graves. Also he did not believe that Father Adam
had flesh and bones, when he came to the garden of Eden, but he and his wife
were spirits, and that God formed their bodies out of the dust of the ground,
and the became a living souls. He also said that he believed that Jesus Christ
and Adam are brothers in the Spirit, and that Adam is not the God that he is
praying unto. (Thomas Evans Jeremy, Sr., Journal, September 30, 1852, Journal
(volume 1), 1852 September-1853 November, MS
1249, Church History Library)
This
shows that someone as astute as Orson Pratt did not believe that women would be
raised by their husbands, something one often hears from critics of the Church
at times.
