Man of Eloquence

Well, Christ performed the Atonement so that we would have a way back to Heavenly Father and our pre existant state, except we would have bodies like Heavenly Father. There would be no reason for us to complete or participate in any kind of an atonement. In my opinion the only way we would get remotely close to it is by coming unto Christ. Just as Christ came unto the Father throughout His life, we would walk and act in the same similitude as Christ did to the Father in our life. Again in D&C 19:15-19 we read "15 Therefore I command you to repent—repent, lest I smite you by the rod of my mouth, and by my wrath, and by my anger, and your sufferings be sore—how sore you know not, how exquisite you know not, yea, how hard to bear you know not. 16 For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; 17 But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I; 18 Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink 19 Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men." To me, this passage of scripture is defined as being a loving but stern guidance from Christ that we need to come unto Him. He wants us to repent and follow Him.

It clearly states in Moses 3:7 that Adam was the first flesh on the earth AND the first man also. Seeing that Moses was a great prophet and in the depths of humility and full of the spirit, I percieve his words to be literal and to the point. That being said the account of the creation stated in the book of Moses is accurate and should be taken as the truth. In my mind, there is no way man lived before Adam. He is the first man on this earth.