RE: Adam & Eve
November 6, 2021 at 10:37 am
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2021 at 10:39 am by zwanzig.)
In the Mormon temple, the ritual is all about the Garden story and Mormons take it literally. You move to different seated chapels to represent the different phases of existence and you get dressed in silly robes to represent promises made to God not to tell anyone about the silly robes and secret handshakes you make with God.
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And you watch a movie about creation and the Garden. In it, Adam and Eve are portrayed as being innocent, like children, unknowing of themselves. Yet in my BYU religion classes on the family, we learned that Adam and Eve knew more about the plan than they let on. You can't have sex and procreate if you don't understand you have genitals. Yet Adam and Eve were given this commandment to be fruitful and multiply. Mormons believe that this commandment couldn't be fulfilled in the innocent state they were in the garden. So the other commandment "don't eat the fruit of that tree" needed to be broken in order to fulfill the other commandment. All of us as spirits were waiting for our chance to come to earth and gain bodies, watching from above as these two worked through the contradictory plan and Eve was given the solution by the " adversary " who is so evil and arrogant that he couldn't help defying God's commandments (except, not really; boy, that woulda been a real wrench in everything if Lucifer failed to point out to Eve that a choice needed to be made. If he said nothing, God's plan for us all to come to earth would just sit and stew in perpetuity as Adam and Eve innocently played with Legos and petted all the different furry animals forever, until he was forced to come up with a real plan that was fair and all).
But breaking the commandment IS part of God's plan. Why? Mormonism knows why. “Adam fell that men might be and men are that they might have joy”. All things need opposition otherwise the "choice" isn't really real. So, we need to be tempted and have the ability to sin. We needed to fall from grace and leave God's presence in te garden just like how children grow up and leave their parents house to go experiment with soaking while away at college. And you can't extort people with a blood sacrifice of your son(Jesus) unless they're doing bad shit that they need saving from. So, it all works out; cognitive dissonance is baked into the brownie.
And you watch a movie about creation and the Garden. In it, Adam and Eve are portrayed as being innocent, like children, unknowing of themselves. Yet in my BYU religion classes on the family, we learned that Adam and Eve knew more about the plan than they let on. You can't have sex and procreate if you don't understand you have genitals. Yet Adam and Eve were given this commandment to be fruitful and multiply. Mormons believe that this commandment couldn't be fulfilled in the innocent state they were in the garden. So the other commandment "don't eat the fruit of that tree" needed to be broken in order to fulfill the other commandment. All of us as spirits were waiting for our chance to come to earth and gain bodies, watching from above as these two worked through the contradictory plan and Eve was given the solution by the " adversary " who is so evil and arrogant that he couldn't help defying God's commandments (except, not really; boy, that woulda been a real wrench in everything if Lucifer failed to point out to Eve that a choice needed to be made. If he said nothing, God's plan for us all to come to earth would just sit and stew in perpetuity as Adam and Eve innocently played with Legos and petted all the different furry animals forever, until he was forced to come up with a real plan that was fair and all).
But breaking the commandment IS part of God's plan. Why? Mormonism knows why. “Adam fell that men might be and men are that they might have joy”. All things need opposition otherwise the "choice" isn't really real. So, we need to be tempted and have the ability to sin. We needed to fall from grace and leave God's presence in te garden just like how children grow up and leave their parents house to go experiment with soaking while away at college. And you can't extort people with a blood sacrifice of your son(Jesus) unless they're doing bad shit that they need saving from. So, it all works out; cognitive dissonance is baked into the brownie.
