Lecture 9 Flashcards
- What did Adam and Eve learn was the purpose of the commandment to sacrifice the firstlings of their flocks? (Moses 5:5-8).
- It was after the similitude of Christ.
- What evidence do we have that Adam and Eve were taught the Gospel?
- In Moses Ch. 5 and 6, we learn that Adam and Eve had faith, repentance, baptism and the Holy Ghost
- Why was Abel’s offering acceptable and Cain’s was not?
- He brought the offering because he was commanded by Satan
2. His sacrifice was not of the right type (in the similitude of the Savior)
- What does “All are alike unto God” mean? (2 Nephi 26:33)
- God does not discriminate against anyone based on race, color, familial lineage, gender, social status, etc., He only looks on the heart
- How does the temple experience represent a reversal of the Fall?
- Through covenants, the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and obedience to the commandments, we are admitted back into God’s presence. Spiritual and Physical death are overcome
- According to our class discussion, what are the three necessary elements for a “proper sacrifice”?
a. Faith in Christ
b. Obedience to the commandments
c. Sacrifice made in similitude of the Only Begotten
- What are the four conditions we are all subject to after the fall that Jackson lists and discusses?
a. All living things are mortal
b. Adam and Eve were capable of having posterity
a. Unique to Latter-Day Saints
c. Adam and Eve were banished from God’s presence and thereby suffered spiritual death
d. Adam and Eve were no longer innocent but had a knowledge of good and evil
- What do you think this statement by Joseph Smith means: “when man fell he did not lose his image but his character, still remaining the image of his maker”?
Man still looked like God and still had the potential to become like God
- Why does the author write that the Book of Abraham suggests that Eve was created in the image of her Heavenly Mother?
a. Because in the Abraham account it says “the Gods” (plural) went down to create Adam and Eve
- What are the things listed that Eve did with Adam together in mortality after they were driven from the Garden of Eden? (See Moses 5:1-12).
a. Had children
b. Labored together
c. Called upon the Lord
d. Given commandments
e. Worshiped through sacrifice
Moses 5:10-11;
10 And in that day Adam blessed God and was filled, and began to prophesy concerning all the families of the earth, saying: Blessed be the name of God, for because of my transgression my eyes are opened, and in this life I shall have joy, and again in the flesh I shall see God.
11 And Eve, his wife, heard all these things and was glad, saying: Were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient.
Testimony of Adam and Eve. Evidence that they could not have seed without the fall. Evidence that the fall was necessary
Moses 5
23 If thou doest well, thou shalt be accepted. And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, and Satan desireth to have thee; and except thou shalt hearken unto my commandments, I will deliver thee up, and it shall be unto thee according to his desire. And thou shalt rule over him;
25 And it shall be said in time to come—That these abominations were had from Cain; for he rejected the greater counsel which was had from God; and this is a cursing which I will put upon thee, except thou repent.
Shows that God was impartial to Cain. Abel wasn’t His favorite, Abel just did what God commanded him to do.
5:33-34;
And the Lord said unto Cain: Where is Abel, thy brother? And he said: I know not. Am I my brother’s keeper?
35 And the Lord said: What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother’s blood cries unto me from the ground.
This is God speaking to Cain after he murdered Abel.
The correct answer is yes, you are your brother’s keeper
5:58
And thus the Gospel began to be preached, from the beginning, being declared by holy angels sent forth from the presence of God, and by his own voice, and by the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Evidence that Adam and Eve were taught the gospel. They couldn’t be in God’s presence, so they had to learn from the Holy Ghost. Evidence that they had the HG.
