Genesis 1:31, Moses 2, Abraham
God beheld everything that he created and said that it was "very good".
Doctrine repeated 3 times....God created each of us, he knows that we are good, very good. He Believes that about us, even when we are having bad days.
And I God created man in my own image and we will bless them. ...How wonderful to know that God created and blessed us. That should give us courage and hope.
Reflect: What do you think God's greatest quality about you is?
Genesis 2:7
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
God has given us all that we have, even the breath of our lives. How does your gratitude reflect your love for Him?
Genesis 2:18
"And the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."
The phrase help meet means "a helper suited to worthy of, or corresponding to him". In other words, opposites that compliment each other and work together. Ex: our right and left hands are opposite but work together in unity. Together, men and woman are stronger, better together. It is not good for man to be alone.
Husbands and wives should build each other up. How do you bring love into your home and family?
The responsibility to procreate is to men and woman together. Called to do a great work, side by side.
How do men and woman work together as opposites, but compliment each other at the same time.
“God created the heaven and the earth.”
“The physical Creation itself was staged through ordered periods of time. In Genesis and Moses, those periods are called days. But in the book of Abraham, each period is referred to as a time [see Abraham 4:8–5:3]. Whether termed a day, a time, or an age, each phase was a period between two identifiable events—a division of eternity” (Russell M. Nelson, “The Creation,” Ensign, May 2000, 85).
God (Elohim, Jehovah) names used in the Old Testament
Creates (organized the elements) elements have no beginning and no end
Genesis 1:1–25; Moses 2:1–25; Abraham 4:1–25
Under the direction of Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ created the earth.
Elder D. Todd Christofferson said, “Whatever the details of the creation process, we know that it was not accidental but that it was directed by God the Father and implemented by Jesus Christ”
In Moses 3, the Lord revealed that after the six periods of creation were complete, He rested from His labors. He also revealed that He created all things spiritually before they were created physically upon the earth. Finally, the Lord taught about the relationship of Adam and Eve as husband and wife.
Genesis 1:26–28; Moses 2:26–28; Abraham 4:26–28
We are created in the image of God.
“This earth, all men [and women], animals, fish, fowls, plants, all things—all lived first as spirit entities. Their home was heaven, and the earth was created to be the place where they could take upon themselves mortality” (Bruce R. McConkie, “Christ and the Creation,” Ensign, June 1982, 13).
Genesis 1:27–28; 2:18–25; Moses 3:18, 21–25; Abraham 5:14–19
Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God.
“The rib, coming as it does from the side, seems to denote partnership. The rib signifies … a lateral relationship as partners, to work and to live, side by side” (Russell M. Nelson, “Lessons from Eve,” Ensign, Nov. 1987, 87).
Genesis 1:27–28; Moses 3:18, 21–25; Abraham 5:14–19
Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God.
“Two compelling doctrinal reasons help us to understand why eternal marriage is essential to the Father’s plan.
“Reason 1: The natures of male and female spirits complete and perfect each other, and therefore men and women are intended to progress together toward exaltation.
“… For divine purposes, male and female spirits are different, distinctive, and complementary.
“… The unique combination of spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional capacities of both males and females were needed to implement the plan of happiness. Alone, neither the man nor the woman could fulfill the purposes of his or her creation.
“… Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences. The man and the woman contribute differently but equally to a oneness and a unity that can be achieved in no other way. The man completes and perfects the woman and the woman completes and perfects the man as they learn from and mutually strengthen and bless each other. ‘Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord’ (1 Corinthians 11:11; italics added).
“Reason 2: By divine design, both a man and a woman are needed to bring children into mortality and to provide the best setting for the rearing and nurturing of children. …
“A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met. Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children” (David A. Bednar, “Marriage Is Essential to His Eternal Plan,”Ensign, June 2006, 82–84; see also “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2017, 145).
Genesis 2:2–3; Moses 3:2–3; Abraham 5:2–3
God blessed and sanctified the Sabbath day.
“Sometimes we have thought of rest as being a place where we get on the chaise lounge [a reclining chair], or in our sneakers, or we get outside and lie on the grass, something where we are at rest. That isn’t the kind of rest that the Lord is speaking about. It is he who is the most dynamic, the one who works the hardest, puts in the longest hours, and lives the closest to his Heavenly Father who is rested—rested from His labors, but not put away from his work” (Spencer W. Kimball, “The Privilege of Holding the Priesthood,” Ensign,Nov. 1975, 80).
“There is no account of the creation of man or other forms of life when they were created as spirits. There is just the simple statement that they were so created before the physical creation. The statements in Moses 3:5 and Genesis 2:5 are interpolations thrown into the account of the physical creation, explaining that all things were first created in the spirit existence in heaven before they were placed upon this earth” (Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols. [1954–56], 1:75–76).
“It is held by some that Adam was not the first man upon this earth and that the original human being was a development from lower orders of the animal creation. These, however, are the theories of men. The word of the Lord declared that Adam was ‘the first man of all men’ (Moses 1:34), and we are therefore in duty bound to regard him as the primal parent of our race. It was shown to the brother of Jared that all men were created in the beginning after the image of God; whether we take this to mean the spirit or the body, or both, it commits us to the same conclusion: Man began life as a human being, in the likeness of our Heavenly Father.
“True it is that the body of man enters upon its career as a tiny germ embryo, which becomes an infant, quickened at a certain stage by the spirit whose tabernacle it is, and the child, after being born, develops into a man. There is nothing in this, however, to indicate that the original man, the first of our race, began life as anything less than a man, or less than the human germ or embryo that becomes a man” (“The Origin of Man,” Improvement Era, Nov. 1909, 80; “The Origin of Man,” Ensign, Feb. 2002, 30).
“Adam and Eve were the progenitors of the race. They were the first father and mother, and all the children of mortality are the offspring of this couple” (Spencer W. Kimball, “The Lord’s Plan for Men and Women,” Ensign,Oct. 1975, 4).
Moses 3:18, 20. “An help meet for him”
The Hebrew word translated as help means succor or support, and the word translated as meet means suitable. Thus a husband and wife are to help, succor, and support one another as equal partners.
President M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles testified that men and women are equal before the Lord:
“Men and women are equal in God’s eyes and in the eyes of the Church, but equal does not mean … that they are the same. The responsibilities and divine gifts of men and women differ in their nature but not in their importance or influence. Our Church doctrine places women equal to and yet different from men. God does not regard either gender as better or more important than the other” (M. Russell Ballard, “Let Us Think Straight”[Brigham Young University Education Week devotional, Aug. 20, 2013], 6, speeches.byu.edu).
“Human intimacy is reserved for a married couple because it is the ultimate symbol of total union, a totality and a union ordained and defined by God. From the Garden of Eden onward, marriage was intended to mean the complete merger of a man and a woman—their hearts, hopes, lives, love, family, future, everything. Adam said of Eve that she was bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh, and that they were to be ‘one flesh’ in their life together [see Genesis 2:23–24]. This is a union of such completeness that we use the word seal to convey its eternal promise. The Prophet Joseph Smith once said we perhaps could render such a sacred bond as being ‘welded’ [see D&C 128:18] one to another.
“But such a total union, such an unyielding commitment between a man and a woman, can only come with the proximity and permanence afforded in a marriage covenant, with solemn promises and the pledge of all they possess—their very hearts and minds, all their days and all their dreams” (Jeffrey R. Holland, “Personal Purity,” Ensign, Nov. 1998, 76).
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