Temple Themes

A great blessing of Restoration scripture is the restoration of lost accounts from the Bible. Such is the case of Enoch, a character who fascinates Bible scholars. There are three Books of Enoch in the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (this is a collection of writings similar to the Apocrypha—see D&C Section 91). Some critics have accused […]

While working on my last post, I noticed the Hebrew words for skin and light are both transliterated into the same letters owr, and they are pronounced the same, so I googled it to see what the difference was. This is the AI explanation:   The difference between the Hebrew words for skin and light

After Adam and Eve had partaken of the forbidden fruit, they become aware of their nakedness, a condition which becomes a major theme in scripture. The Book of Mormon prophet, Jacob, speaks of a future day when “we shall have a perfect knowledge of all our guilt, and our uncleanness, and our nakedness; and the

We get more information from the Moses account compared with the Genesis account regarding Adam, Eve, and Lucifer in the Garden of Eden. However, careful study of the Genesis account can draw similar conclusions, although some parts are missing from the Genesis account.   We will start with Genesis chapter 3, where a “serpent” appears

We left off on the last post with Adam naming the animals, which in some texts (like the Quran) is a testing and initiation. This idea is bolstered by restoration scripture in Moses 4:26 where it’s clear that the Lord provided this name, and also that Eve, whose name means “life or living,” is a

The Garden of Eden was the first temple. After man is placed in the garden, the first items mentioned are the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. (We will just call the latter tree, “The Tree of Knowledge” going forward). Genesis 2:9 tells us that these trees are in

Adam and Eve were created differently besides the obvious that one may think. First, let’s consider the general creation of mankind, and then delve into their separate (but equal) roles.   Moses 3:6 says, “But I, the Lord God, spake, and there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of

I’ve got to say how super excited I am to share the concepts of this post! Yesterday, I mentioned how Jehovah subdued the waters of chaos during the Creation. This is a major temple theme and a significant part of the Creation. I have read quite a bit from scholars, and several LDS scholars, who

Yesterday I mentioned that some of the Creation events in Genesis are echoed in the New Testament, particularly in the Gospel of John. One of these occurs in the second verse of the Bible: “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of

The first words of the Bible are, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). The Hebrew word for “God” in this verse is elohiym, which is the plural form of el, and el is the general word for God. This brings up the importance of names in scripture, and even