Volume 3, Issue 1 – June 2006

Posted on 6/22/2006 at 12:39:07 PM

Contents

Jewish Sabbaths & Feasts

Popular Excuses Against Having Children

We Are Adam And Eve

Man’s Destiny (poem)

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Adam and Eve are Us

Posted on 6/20/2006 at 9:11:29 AM

Adam is Man

Although the name Adam doesn’t appear in the King James Version of the Bible until over half way through the second chapter of Genesis, in the original Hebrew language Adam appears in the first sentence regarding the creation of man and woman, when it tells us “God created man in His own image … male and female created He them.”¹ The English translation of the word Adam is “man,” and is used to speak of both man and woman in this case. This concept is repeated again a few chapters later where it tells us “Male and female created He them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam”² So whenever the word Adam appears it could be speaking of the first man on earth specifically, an individual man, a man and woman, or all of mankind.³

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Man’s Destiny

Posted on 6/17/2006 at 4:36:14 PM

Hast thou not been unwisely bold,
Man’s destiny to thus unfold?
To raise, promote such high desire,
Such vast ambition thus inspire?
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Popular Excuses Against Having More Children

Posted on 6/17/2006 at 4:28:33 PM

The false ideas we believe when deciding not to have (more) children.

“We cannot afford to have children at the moment”

In this world in which meeting the cost of clothing and food for just a couple of adults seems too much, we may wonder how we could ever spare the money to feed another mouth. This may lead us to believe that it would be more responsible to wait until we have a higher income with which to pay for the many needs a child will have. Perhaps we already have children who are part of our little family, who seem to lack many of the things we would like to be able to buy them, and we worry that a new baby would leave us less able to meet their needs or wants.
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Jewish Sabbaths & Feasts

Posted on 6/8/2006 at 7:56:25 AM

Are we, as latter-day Saints, obligated to honor a Saturday or Jewish Sabbath and other Jewish rituals or traditions such as the Passover? If these practices were binding upon ancient Israel why are they not binding upon us today?

To answer these questions it is necessary that we review the origin and purposes of these practices.

The predominate view of the origin of the seventh day Sabbath is that God rested from his labors on the Seventh day of Creation. In light of modern revelation, however, we understand that the Gods did a lot more during the Sabbath of creation than rest. Through the Prophet Joseph Smith we are informed that “God made the world in six days, and on the seventh day he finished his work, and sanctified it, and also formed man out of the dust of the earth …” (D&C 77:12) According to the books of Abraham and Moses, the Gods performed the work of creation in a sequence of six periods of time called days. These six creative periods prepared the earth to sustain life in all its varieties. But, the scriptures make it clear that the six creative periods were really preparation for the most important day of creation. On the seventh day the Gods sanctified the earth and brought it into a state of paradisiacal glory. They formed man in their own likeness and image — that is male and female. And they planted a garden eastward in Eden.¹
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