Week 3: The Fall

The Third lesson was done by Matt Muirhead. His lesson taught about the fall, covering many other things as well. His lesson taught very simply as if it was from the beginning. First addressing a view of the character of God. It seems to be overlooked, limiting it to a "starchy" angry person. Jehovah a God of the Old Testament is the spirit of Jesus Christ before he lived on Earth. God the Father is a different being from the Son. They are one and of perfect love. Perfect love is hard to understand; however, we can witness it as we learn of the character of God in the scriptures and try to emulate it now. The natural man cannot perceive the great glory of the identity of our Savior that is why Matt spoke of this weird stigma about the scriptures as they are confused, when they read the scriptures. Let us pray and humbly search the scriptures that we may not be ignorant to the life of the perfect beings of Christ and the Father.

     The notes that I take is not a summary of the class, so I will discuss what I learned. It was a basic lesson about the fall though. The Fall is the acts that plunged man into mortality with sin, death, pain, work, and everything. This could only happen by partaking of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Satan was the main force to propel the Plan of Salvation forward by partaking of this fruit.

    One thing that I learn, concerning the desire of Satan that I never realized before, was spelled out in Moses 4:6. "he sought also to ^cbeguile Eve, for he ^dknew not the ^emind of God, wherefore he sought to destroy the world." I wrote in the last summary that the world is necessary to the Plan of Salvation. The destruction thereof will also fulfill his will to destroy the Plan of Salvation. Other parts of Satan's will is the destruction of our agency as revealed in verse 3 of Moses 4. He wants to be able to control every person, leading them into carnal security until they forget faith and lose hope, "for he seeketh that all men might be ^hmiserable like unto himself." Ezra Taft Benson further describes the designs of Satan in his talk called Beware of Pride. "The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means “hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.” It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us." Speaking of Satan is odd because he is like an insane evil genius, who most of the time makes no sense. We have to make sure that we can recognize his insanity quickly before we are led to do foolish things.