Understanding the Origin of Satan and the Fall of Man
Delve into the pivotal event of human history where Lucifer became Satan, the deception in the Garden of Eden, and the concept of fallen spirits watching over individuals. Explore the significance of the singular divine plan and the spiritual warfare present in humanity's journey towards redemption.
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Messiah from the Bible Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dEh25pduQ8
Messiah from the Bible Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dEh25pduQ8
HOW DID LUCIFER BECOME SATAN? (Hint: Moses 4:1-4) Why a snake? Was there one plan or two plans presented?
One Plan or Two Plans? Although we sometimes hear it said that there were two plans Christ s plan of freedom and agency, and Lucifer's of compulsion such teaching does not conform to the revealed word. Christ did not present a plan of salvation nor did Lucifer. There were not two plans up for consideration; there was only one; and that was the plan of the Father: originated, developed, presented, and put in force by him. Christ, however, made the Father s plan his own by his willing obedience to its terms and provisions. Elder Bruce R. McConkie
Fallen Spirits Moses 4:3-4 Every person who desires and strives to be a Saint is closely watched by fallen spirits that came here when Lucifer fell, and by the spirits of wicked persons who have been here in tabernacles and departed from them, but who are still under the control of Satan. Those spirits are never idle: they are watching every person who wishes to do right and are continually prompting them to do wrong. Brigham Young
WHERE WAS THE TREE PLANTED? (MOSES 3:9) Two Commandments Moses 2:28, Moses 3:16-17 (Three explanations)
WHY GIVE THEM COMMANDMENTS THEY CAN T KEEP? The Lord said to Adam, here is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you want to stay here then you cannot eat of that fruit. If you want to stay here then I forbid you to eat it. But you may act for yourself and you may eat of it if you want to. And if you eat it you will die. Joseph Fielding Smith Idea Two: Yet Idea Three: The Wording of the Commandment Fall Atonement Resurrection Sacrament [address given at LDS Institute of Religion, Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 14, 1961]).
SO WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? After Before
WHY GIVE THEM COMMANDMENTS THEY CAN T KEEP? The fall had a twofold direction downward, yet forward. It brought man into the world and set his feet on progression s highway. Orson F. Whitney Cowley and Whitney on Doctrine, comp. Forace Green [1963], 287
Alma 34:9-10 We ought to fall on our knees and thank our Father in heaven that we belong to a church and have grasped a gospel that promises repentance to those who will pay the price. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, However Long and Hard the Road, p.6
I knew a man, now deceased, not a member of the Church, who was a degenerate old reprobate who found pleasure, as he supposed, in living after the manner of the world. A cigarette dangled from his lips, alcohol stenched his breath, and profane and bawdy stories defiled his lips. His moral status left much to be desired. could be under the circumstances. One day she said to him, You know the Church is true; why won t you be baptized? He replied, Of course I know the Church is true, but I have no intention of changing my habits in order to join it. I prefer to live the way I do. But that doesn t worry me in the slightest. I know that as soon as I die, you will have someone go to the temple and do the work for me and everything will come out all right in the end anyway. His wife was a member of the Church, as faithful as she do not sit in judgment and deny vicarious ordinances to people. But what will it profit him? (Elder McConkie, The Seven Deadly Heresies, in 1980 Devotional Speeches of the Year: BYU Devotional and Fireside Addresses [1980], 77). He died and she had the work done in the temple. We
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, in the end, Thy will be done. All that are in Hell chose it. Without that self- choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. C. S. Lewis The Great Divorce, pp.72-73
