Temple Themes

We have a lot to unpack with the temple and Come Follow Me this week, so let’s get started with Noah, who is the perfect transition from Enoch. Enoch and his people “walked with God” and so did Noah (Moses 7:69; Genesis 6:9). This introduces a popular temple theme of walking with God. Looking at […]

In Moses chapter 7, Enoch has had his eyes washed and anointed (Moses 6:35), and now he is “clothed upon with glory” (Moses 7:3). In a temple-like experience on Mount Simeon, he has the heavens opened unto him and is able to have a dialogue with the Lord “face to face.” The name Simeon means

I’m so excited to do this post about one of my top ten favorite scriptures! The verses are Moses 6:59-60:   “That by reason of transgression cometh the fall, which fall bringeth death, and inasmuch as ye were born into the world by water, and blood, and the spirit, which I have made, and so

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