Gen 2:4-17
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Questions
- Is verse 7 purely symbolic? Was Adam also a literal son of God, but not born in the flesh (or in other words mortality)? (See the genealogy of Christ in Luke 3:38, Paul's discussion of the two Adams (or two gods) in Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15 especially verses 45-50.)
- Could the Father be "responsible" for mortality? Immortality? Or did his two literal or figurative sons have to bear the weight of this repsonsibility?
- Why did it take one god (Michael/Adam) to choose bring us into mortality and another God (Christ) to choose to provide immortality? Was there another way to do the same?
- How does a correct undestanding of the Fall change our views of the Atonement? Which event was more essential, or could one exist with out the other?
- Why do Latter-day Saints study the Fall so much in order to understand the Atonement?
Lexical notes
- Garden Translated from the Hebrew Gan--a garden enclosed by walls, such as in a courtyard or temple, separated off from the rest of the world.
Exegesis
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Related links
Verse 9
- Tree of life and Asherah: Asphodel P. Long suggests a connection in an address titled "Asherah, the Tree of Life and the Menorah: Continuity of a Goddess symbol in Judaism?" The First Sophia Fellowship Feminist Theology Lecture, The College of St. Mark & St. John. Plymouth. 4th December 1996.
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