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Old Testament
Hurricane Utah
Adult Religion Class
Week 4: The Fall, the telestial world,Cain and Abel
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The Fall in LDS belief
—Encyclopedia of Mormonism 2:485 2
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Dilemma in the garden
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—2 Nephi 2:15–16
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Closing the sale
• Three claims (Genesis 3:4–5):
“Ye shall not surely die.” — half-truth
“God doth know…ye shall be as gods”— appeal to mistrust/jealousy
“Your eyes shall be opened…knowing goodand evil.” — truth
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Three cursings
• The serpent/Satan (Genesis 3:14–15).
Belly.
Enmity.
Bruise (crush).
• The woman (Genesis 3:16). Painful childbirth.
Men will try to dominate.
• The man (Genesis 3:17–19). Ground cursed.
Toil and hard work. 6
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The tree of life
7Neo-Assyrian Tree of Life stele, c. 870 B.C., British Museum
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Cherubim
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Death before the Fall?
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—2 Nephi 2:22
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Death before the Fall?
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LDS Bible Dictionary, “Fall of Adam”
1979 2013
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Death before the Fall?
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—Alma 12:22–24
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Death before the Fall?
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—Moses 6:45, 48, 58–59
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Death before the Fall?
—Encyclopedia of Mormonism 2:486
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The telestial world
• Adam and Eve work and have children
(Moses 5:1–2).
• Adam offers sacrifices unto the Lord
(Moses 5:5–8).
• Adam and Eve rejoice in the results of
their actions in the Garden
(Moses 5:10–
11).
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Adam & Eve’s poetic refrain
Because of my transgression:Amy eyes are opened, and
Bin this life I shall have joy, andC
again in the flesh I shall see God.Were it not for our transgression:Dwe never should have had seed, and
A1never should have known good and evil, and
B1the joy of our redemption, andC1the eternal life which God giveth
unto all the obedient.
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The telestial world
• Some of their children go astray
(Moses 5:12–13).
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Cain & Abel
• Primogeniture: Right of the firstborn.
• Cain = Hebrew sound play:
קניחי (qaniti, “I have created”)
sounds like . (qayin)קין
• Abel = , (hevelחבל “breath” or “vapor”).
• Cain‟s offering rejected (Moses 5:18–
21).
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Cain’s offering rejected
“It must be shedding the blood of theOnly Begotten to atone for man;…to offera sacrifice contrary to that, no faithcould be exercised, because redemptionwas not purchased in that way, nor thepower of atonement instituted after that order;consequently Cain could have no faith; andwhatsoever is not of faith, is sin.”
—Joseph Smith, January 1834(History of the Church 2:15)
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Secret combinations
• Cain entered into a secret combination
with Satan and became Master Mahan
(Moses 5:28–31).
Helaman 7:21.
Ether 8:14.
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Secret combinations
“The Book of Mormon teaches that secretcombinations engaged in crime present aserious challenge, not just to individualsand families but to entire civilizations.Among today‟s secret combinations aregangs, drug cartels, and organized crimefamilies…. Among their purposes are to „murder,and plunder, and steal, and commit whoredomsand all manner of wickedness, contrary to thelaws of their country and also the laws of theirGod‟ (Helaman 6:23).
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Secret combinations
“If we are not careful, today‟s secretcombinations can obtain power andinfluence just as quickly and just ascompletely as they did in Book of Mormontimes. Do you remember the pattern? Thesecret combinations began among the „morewicked part‟ of society, but eventually „seducedthe more part of the righteous‟ until the wholesociety was polluted (Helaman 6:38).”
—Elder M. Russell Ballard, October 1997
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Secret combinations
“From the international drug and armstraffic to the sneaky chemical additionsin the supermarket, the principle applies:life in exchange for profits. One exampleshould suffice. This month a headlineannounces that „Radiation Dump Could Bring Cashto County.‟ Some counties actually clamor toconvert the land Bountiful into the landDesolation for a quick buck.”
—Hugh Nibley, May 1987
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Secret combinations
• Secret combinations vs.
sacred covenants.
• Mahan = (maha), “toמהח destroy” + -n =noun mahan, “destroyer.”
Perdition = άπωθέω (apoleia), “destruction”(Moses 5:24).
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“I am free…”
“Cain‟s observation of a newfoundfreedom was false doctrine straight fromthe adversary. In reality he enslavedhimself to a life of deceit and a life „shutout from the presence of the Lord….‟(Moses 5:41.) Cain brought this tragedy to his ownlife by disregarding priesthood principles. Herefused to be his „brother‟s keeper,‟ and in sodoing he sold his soul to the father of lies andmurder.”
—Bishop Robert L. Simpson, October 1968
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Curse of Cain, mark of Cain
The curse (Moses 5:23–25, 37):
1. Cain delivered up to
Satan.
2. Unto Cain according to
Satan‟s desire. 3. Cain rule over Satan.
4. Cain father of Satan‟slies.
5. Cain called Perdition.
6. “These abominationswere had from Cain.”
7. Ground would not
produce for Cain.
8. Cain a fugitive and a
vagabond.
The mark (Moses 5:40):
• Set to protect Cain
from those who would
kill him.• אות (’owth), “sign” or
“token.”
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Cain & the priesthood ban
• Joseph Smith ordained black men to the
priesthood.
• Priesthood ban began between 1847 and
1852.
• Revelation, or interpretation?
• Theories behind the ban not scriptural,
not revealed.
“Folk doctrine.”
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Priesthood ban & Mormon folklore
“One clear-cut position is that thefolklore [about the priesthood ban] mustnever be perpetuated…. I have toconcede to my earlier colleagues…. They,I‟m sure, in their own way, were doingthe best they knew to give shape to [the policy],to give context for it, to give even history to it.All I can say is however well-intended theexplanations were, I think almost all of themwere inadequate and/or wrong….
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Priesthood ban & Mormon folklore
“It probably would have beenadvantageous to say nothing, to say wejust don‟t know…but some explanationswere given and had been given for a lotof years…. At the very least, there shouldbe no effort to perpetuate those efforts toexplain why that doctrine existed. I think, to theextent that I know anything about it, as one of the newer and younger [apostles] to comealong,…we simply do not know why that practice,that policy, that doctrine was in place.”
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Priesthood ban & Mormon folklore
“It‟s not the pattern of the Lord to givereasons. We can put reasons tocommandments. When we do we‟re onour own. Some people put reasons to[the priesthood ban] and they turned outto be spectacularly wrong. There is a lesson inthat…. The lesson I‟ve drawn from that, I decideda long time ago that I had faith in the commandand I had no faith in the reasons that had beensuggested for it.
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Priesthood ban & Mormon folklore
“There are statements in our literature by theearly brethren which we have interpreted tomean that the Negroes would not receive thepriesthood in mortality. I have said the samethings, and people write me letters and say,
„You said such and such, and how is it now thatwe do such and such?‟ And all I can say to that isthat it is time disbelieving people repented and got in lineand believed in a living, modern prophet. Forgeteverything that I have said, or what President BrighamYoung or President George Q. Cannon or whomsoever hassaid in days past that is contrary to the presentrevelation. We spoke with a limited understanding andwithout the light and knowledge that now has come into
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Priesthood ban & Mormon folklore
“We get our truth and our light line upon lineand precept upon precept. We have now hadadded a new flood of intelligence and light onthis particular subject, and it erases all thedarkness and all the views and all the thoughtsof the past. They don‟t matter any more. “It doesn‟t make a particle of difference whatanybody ever said about the Negro matter before the firstday of June of this year [1978]. It is a new day and a new
arrangement, and the Lord has now given the revelationthat sheds light out into the world on this subject. As toany slivers of light or any particles of darkness of thepast, we forget about them.”
—Elder Bruce R. McConkie, August 1978
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Priesthood ban & Mormon folklore
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• “Blacks are descendants of Cain” notscriptural, not revealed.
• We don‟t know why the priesthood banwas instituted.
• We do know the ban has been reversed.
• The Lord “denieth none that come unto
him, black and white, bond and free,
male and female…and all are alike untoGod” (2 Nephi 26:33).
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