One-Liner Lessons We Learn From the Garden of Eden
- · The Earth was made for man, not the other way around, although we should take good care of it.
- · God was only present Himself on one of the six creative periods, and that was the sixth day—the creation of man, underscoring the importance of this event.
- · There ARE other worlds.
- · God can and does commune with man.
- · Women are to be beside man, not in front or behind.
- · In order to be a choice at all, an opposing choice must be available.
- · Both Adam and Eve understood that their choice, though difficult, would result in the propagation of man on Earth making it a courageous and unselfish choice.
- · The Fall is not a sinful tragedy, but the introduction of knowledge, birth, and death.
- · Men and women have differing ways of thinking—while man is more direct and goal-oriented, a woman’s is more intuitive.
- · God would not subject mankind with the hardship of earth life and the eventual death of their bodies unless it was their own choice to do so.
- · The result of transgression in the Garden of Eden is that of instruction and warning—the only curse decreed by God therein is to the ground and to Satan.
- · Only through agency do we learn that sin bears painful and bitter fruit, and thereby we are enabled to actively choose and embrace the good.
- · Taking responsibility for our actions is the first step of repentance.
- · The knowledge of good and evil is necessary if we are to become like God.
- · Death is a bound put on the state of sin, but even this was remedied through the resurrection.
- · Satan’s ruses are often turned into God’s uses.
- · Man is much more powerful than Satan.
- · Temple covenants and ordinances were made known to Adam and Eve.
- · Christ knew and agreed to His part in the entire plan from the very beginning, showing that what was to take place in the garden of Eden was also known from the very beginning—it wasn’t a mistake or the short sidedness of God that changed the plan—it never changed.
- · Joy is realized only through obedience and the atonement of Jesus Christ.
- · It was necessary for our first parents to be the ones to bring disobedience and all of its resulting lessons into the world, thus enabling them in teaching correct principles to their children.
- · The story of Eden embraces and illuminates the entire plan of salvation and the reason for our being here.
