He argues that the Adamic language is of divine origin and therefore unchangeable.

In his Divina Commedia, however, Dante changes his view to another that treats the Adamic language as the product of Adam.

Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement ( commonly called Mormonism ), in the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible ( called by some the " Inspired Version ", and published by the RLDS under that title ), declared the Adamic language to have been " pure and undefiled ".

Some other early Latter-day Saint leaders, including Brigham Young, Orson Pratt and Elizabeth Ann Whitney claimed to have received several words in the Adamic language in revelations.

Some Latter-day Saints believe that the Adamic language is the " pure language " spoken of by Zephaniah and that it will be restored as the universal language of humankind at the end of the world.

LDS Apostle Orson Pratt declared that " Ahman ", part of the name of the settlement " Adam-ondi-Ahman " in Daviess County, Missouri, was the name of God in the Adamic language.

Other words thought by some Latter-day Saints to derive from the Adamic language include deseret (" honey bee ", see Ether 2: 3 and Ahman (" God ").

* Angelo Mazzocco, Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists, ISBN 90-04-09250-1 ( chapter 9: " Dante's Reappraisal of the Adamic language ", 159-181 )

( There are different religious positions on this issue ; see also Adamic language.

According to the belief of some Latter Day Saints, the term Adam-ondi-Ahman is part of the Adamic language.

* Adamic language

In Judeo-Christian beliefs, the " confusion of tongues " described in the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel tells of the creation of numerous languages from an original Adamic language.

According to Colton Booth ( Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England ( 1994 ) p. 174 ) " The Renaissance had no single view of Adamic language and its relation to human understanding.

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# Redirect Adamic language

Philosophical languages were popular in Early Modern times, partly motivated by the goal of recovering the lost Adamic or Divine language.

It is implied that prior to the event, humanity spoke a single language, either identical to or derived from the " Adamic language " spoken by Adam and Eve in Paradise.

During the Middle Ages, the Hebrew language was widely considered the language used by God to address Adam in Paradise, and by Adam as lawgiver ( the Adamic language ) by various Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholastics.

Following Payne, Campbell viewed the great flood as a consequence of intermarriage between the white ( Adamic ) and nonwhite ( pre-Adamic ) peoples " the only union we can think of that is reasonable and sufficient to account for the corruption of the world and the consequent judgement ".

" However John William Fletcher, Wesley's designated successor, used the term " evangelically sinless perfection " or " evangelically sinless " but notes in his book The Last Check to Antinomianism that " With respect to the FIRST, that is, the Adamic, Christless law of innocence and paradisiacal perfection, we utterly renounce the doctrine of sinless perfection.

It is this principle of righteousness imparted to men in regeneration which is ever in conflict with the old Adamic nature.

The main schism between Islam and evolution is in the Adamic descent of human beings, a concept which modern biological anthropology rejects as mythology, supported by fossil evidence.

The Adamic cycle, also known as the Prophetic cycle is stated to have begun approximately 6, 000 years ago with a Manifestation of God referred to in various sacred scriptures as Adam, and ended with the dispensation of Muhammad.

It is stated in Bahá ' í literature that the Manifestations of God in the Adamic cycle, in addition to bringing their own teachings, foretold of the Cycle of Fulfillment.

Adamic was born at Praproče Mansion in Praproče near Grosuplje in the region of Lower Carniola, in what is now Slovenia ( then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ).

Adamic told The Literary Digest: " My name is pronounced in this country ( America ) exactly as the word Adamic, pertaining to Adam ": a-dam ' ik.

In his Prae-Adamitae, published in Latin in 1655 La Peyrère argued that Paul's words in Chapter 5, verses 12-14 of his Epistle to the Romans should be interpreted such that " if Adam sinned in a morally meaningful sense there must have been an Adamic law according to which he sinned.

In his Prae-Adamitae, published in Latin in 1655 and in English as Men Before Adam in 1656, La Peyrère argued that Paul's words in Chapter 5, verses 12-14 of his Epistle to the Romans should be interpreted such that " if Adam sinned in a morally meaningful sense there must have been an Adamic law according to which he sinned.

* Louis Adamic ( 1899 – 1951 ), Slovene-American author and translator.

According to John McAleer's Edgar Award-winning Rex Stout: A Biography ( 1977 ), it was the influence of Adamic that led Rex Stout to make his fictional detective Nero Wolfe a native of Montenegro, in what was then Yugoslavia.

The Latter-day Saint Endowment prayer circle once included use of the words " Pay Lay Ale ", which some adherents believed were Adamic words meaning " Oh God, hear the words of my mouth ".

Thus, Adamic story traces the source of evil to Satan ’ s transgression and the fall of Adam and Eve in Eden, a trend reflected in the Books of Adam and Eve that explains the reason for Satan ’ s demotion by his refusal to obey God ’ s command to venerate newly created Adam.

*" The Adamic Administration " by John Murray

It contained many insights, but proved far from infallible: Adamic predicted that America would prosper by eventually " going left ", i. e. turning socialist.

Adamic was strongly opposed to the foreign policy followed by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and in 1946 wrote Dinner at the White House which purported to be an account of a dinner party given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at which Adamic and Churchill had both been present.

Harper and Brothers admitted the statement was untrue and Adamic also withdrew the claim and apologised ; a substantial sum of damages was paid, reported by the Daily Express as £ 5, 000.

* Twelve Harper's Magazine articles by Louis Adamic, written between 1930 and 1943 ( only for subscribers )

Josiah Priest ( 1788 – 1851 ) believed that Shem, because he was a descendant in the Adamic line, and because " Adam " means reddish in Hebrew, that Shem too was of the " reddish race ".

Some scholars suggest that the origins of early Jewish demonology can be traced to two distinctive and often competing mythologies of evil — Adamic and Enochic, one of which was tied to the mishap of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and the other to the fall of angels in the antediluvian period.

In 1891 William Campbell under the pen name " Caucasian " wrote in Anthropology for the People: A Refutation of the Theory of the Adamic Origin of All Races that the nonwhite peoples were not descendants of Adam and therefore " not brothers in any proper sense of the term, but inferior creations " and that polygenism was the " only theory reconcilable with scripture ".

The book mixed science with a scientifically enhanced reading of Genesis, the book lists geological discoveries which showed that men existed before Adam had been created and that the earth was much older than the 6, 000 year old span of the Adamic race.

) it seems best to regard these races as all prior to Adam ’ s time, and not involved in the Adamic covenant.