Who is Adam? Pre-Adamites

Interpreter Foundation

SCIENCE AND MORMONISM 1:COSMOS, EARTH, AND MAN

It is clear that the Atonement and resurrection did not just affect those born after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Indeed, at the time of Christ’s resurrection, we know that “the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose.”19 Therefore, the resurrection was infinite, not only in affecting all humans who would live afterward, but all those born before Christ’s resurrection. The resurrection was both anticipatory and retroactive.

 What about the Fall of Adam and Eve? Is it possible that the Fall was also both anticipatory and retroactive? In other words, could it be the case that not only those who lived after Adam and Eve but also that there were many who lived before Adam and Eve who partook of the Fall as well as the Atonement?

Ordered Universe - A Very Skillful Wathcmaker

Dan Peterson 8 Jun 1999

Using Einstein’s relativity theory and its predictions of the compression and dilation of time, Schroeder says that everything depends on whether our perspective is from the earth or that of the cosmos as a whole.  “When one asks if six days or fifteen billion years passed before the appearance of humankind,” he declares, “the correct answer is ‘yes.’”