Another great discussion! Pastor Jeff McCullough and Latter-day Saint Greg Matsen discuss the Garden of Eden.

A few months ago, I sat down with Jeff to ask him about his understanding of the Garden...

- Eve was beguiled but should be held up higher on a pedestal for a righteous choice.
- The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil represents the Law of God among other things.
- "Death" in the Garden of...

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"Mortality & LDS Scholarship"

In the Garden of Eden, the Serpent told the truth and lied to Eve. He told her that she would "be like the Gods". That was true. She would receive the "law", or...

"So, if Joseph Smith said that the morn of creation is the starting point for us to look to "in order for us to understand and be fully acquainted with the mind, purposes and decrees of the Great...

The Creation and Garden of Eden stories are masked with mystery. But one way of looking at these stories can provide keys to better understand them. Those keys are "Vision" and "Drama". In other...

What was the serpent really saying to Eve?
- Amulek & Alma talk about the first and second deaths
- While speaking on judgment, Alma brings up the Garden of Eden
- Throughout the scriptures, death...

'Lehi's Dream'

-  The dream as a mirror image of the Garden of Eden

-  'Men are that they might have joy'. The dream as chiasmus

-  A reflection of Lehi's environment in Jerusalem

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'Law - Judgement - Grace'
- We have all partaken of the fruit
- We are subject to the law and its consequences
- Grace 'Covers' the law
- Both Trees are necessary

Paul's orchestration of Faith, Works...

Jonathon Pageau, an Orthodox Christian and an insightful thinker on biblical symbolism, gives his take on tree symbolism in the Garden of Eden. He mentions a possible ‘third tree’ from...