Eight (1813)particular subject, and it erases all the darkness and all the views and all the thoughts of the past.
They don’t matter anymore.” (Bruce R. McConkie, address to CES (Church Educational System)
Religious Educators Symposium on 18 Aug. 1978 entitled, “All are Alike unto God,” emphasis added.
(Elijah Abel grave, Salt Lake City Cemetery, Utah, Mar. 2010. Photograph courtesy John Jerdon.)
(^86) BOM, 1 Nephi 14:7.
(^87) “The Sealed Portion,” Marvelous Work and a Wonder®, 2011, Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Purpose Trust, 8 Apr. 2011 http://marvelousworkandawonder.com/tsp/index.htm.
(^88) BOM, 1 Nephi 14:7.
(^89) Genesis 2:8.
(^90) See Genesis 2:9.
(^91) Genesis 3:5. See also Moses 4:11.
(^92) Genesis 3:6 (2–6).
(^93) For a complete explanation of the story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden, see
Christopher, Sacred, not Secret–The [Authorized and] Official Guide In Understanding the LDS
Temple Endowment.
(^94) HR, 2:9.
(^95) HR, 5:28.
(^96) HR, chapter 6.
(^97) HR, 5:29.
(^98) “LUCIFER: Adam, here is some of the fruit of that tree. It will make you wise.” (SNS, 45.)
(^99) HR, 1:13–18.
(^100) “Our [Eternal Mother] did not establish expectations of how we should use the
information that we were acquiring from our new experiences.” (HR, 5:11.)
(^101) Genesis 3:5; PGP, Moses 5:11; HR, chapter 10.
(^102) John 14:2.
(^103) TSP, 2:5–8.
(^104) Genesis 3:5.
(^105) BOM, 2 Nephi 2:11, 15, 22–5.
(^106) PGP, Moses 4:11.
(^107) Psalms 82:6.
(^108) “You have been anointed to become hereafter kings and priests unto the Most High God,
to rule and reign in the House of Israel forever.” (SNS, 15);
“‘To reign’ was meant to be a figurative expression of each person having power and
authority over his or her own existence no matter where one chose to exist ‘in the kingdom of God’
(which includes ALL of His creations).” (SNS, 8);
“Yea, Let him enter the kingdom of his own choosing. Worlds without end.” (SNS, 217.)
(^109) HR, 13:11; 16:18, 50.