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Dear Gramps,

I read the part about Adam being commanded to be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost. So WHO baptized Adam, by immersion, in the name of the Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, and bestowed upon him the Holy Ghost? I understand that an angel appeared to bestow the Holy Ghost AFTER Adam showed his obedience to God. Certainly Adam didn’t baptize himself, and I doubt that Eve held those keys either. I am a Mormon believer, but some answers leave me confused.

Mormon in Florida





Dear Mormon in Florida,

Why do you think that Adam couldn’t baptize himself? That is exactly what Alma did, as we read in Mosiah 18:12-15.







However, we learn from the Joseph Smith translation of the Bible, in JST Genesis 6:64, that Adam was indeed baptized by the Holy Ghost:

And it came to pass, when the Lord had spoken with Adam our father, that Adam cried unto the Lord, and he was caught away by the Spirit of the Lord, and was carried down into the water, and was laid under the water, and was brought forth out of the water; and thus he was baptized.







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