Come Follow Me 2: Genesis 1-2; Moses 2-3; Abraham 4-5
Come Follow Me Lesson 2: Genesis 1-2; Moses 2-3; Abraham 4-5
Introduction:
How does knowing that God can make beauty out of something unorganized make you feel?
Does this knowledge of the creation offer you hope?
If we let God prevail in our lives, He can continue to create us into new creatures who are more like Him. We will receive His image in our countenances.
“We have the potential to become like Him: exalted, glorified, celestial beings.”
How are we still in
a Genesis in our own lives?
How can we redefine and
recreate our lives and our path.
How is the Lord the
Potter and we the clay?
Personal
Study
The Creation was not an accident, but
showed careful planning and placing, designed by the Divine Creator.
What do we learn about the creation in these chapters?
What do you learn about Heavenly Father’s and Jesus’s
love for you? Do you believe in the accounts of the creation? How can
you know for yourself these things? Do you have faith that one day
all things will be revealed to you? (See D&C
101:32-34)
Readings: Genesis 1:1-25; Moses 1:1-25;
Abraham 1:1-25
God blessed all his creations to be
fruitful and multiply (see Genesis 1:22)
vs 25. God saw that it
was good. (He viewed that His creations were good, and he made sure
that they were good.)
Heavenly
Father tells us that He created the heavens and the earth by His Only
Begotten (See Moses 1:1).
vs. 4 God saw the light was good.
This is a principle of faith. He knew it would be good. He “saw to
it” that it was.
Vs 7 And it was so, even as I spake (I am
said it, and it was done)
vs. 10, 12, 18, 21, 25 All things that God made were very good.
We need to look at
our own accomplishments as good and have faith that we can do good
and well.
Are we also creators? Do we envision how we
want things? Do we make a plan and chart out a course? Do we have
follow through and acknowledge that our work is good that the results
are good?
(Talk by President Uchtdorf)
God made for propigation. He set things in place in perfect order so that His creations could keep continuing, without end. (See vs 11)
Abraham 1:1 God
included others I the creation besides His Only Begotten. (the
Gods)
I have found it interesting for years that Abraham
records the order of days as night and then day as one day, which
follows the Jewish way of thinking with the Sabbath starting Friday
evening and then Saturday until the going down of the sun.
And
it came to pass that from the evening until morning they
called night;
and from the morning until the evening they called day;
(vs 5, 8, 13, 18, 21, 23)
vs 10 and the Gods saw that they were obeyed. This shows a principle of faith and works. They planned, prepared, worked, and beheld that things were good. They were good themselves and the elements “wanted” to obey Them.
There was propagation made possible in the seeds of all things (11, 12).
vs 18 And the Gods watched those things which they had ordered until they obeyed.
That is faith. Do we watch and wait for correct desired outcomes, or do we give up?
Vs 22 And the Gods said: We will bless them, and cause them to be fruitful and multiply,
Marriage
Why
is it important to you to know that Adam and Eve were joined together
in marriage for time and all eternity by the power of the everlasting
priesthood?
What have you learned about the importance of
marriage in the chapters and in the temple?
Readings: Genesis 1:26-31; Moses 1:26-31; Abraham 1:26-31
Genesis 1:26-28: Man created in the image of God by God and given dominion over all other creatures.
It was a vegetarian world until the Fall (see vs 29-31).
Moses 1:26 Heavenly Father invited Jesus Christ to participate in the creation of bodies for His Spirit children. They were granted dominion over the other creations.
Vs 27 And I, God, created man in mine own image, in the image of mine Only Begotten created I him; male and female created I them.
Vs 28 Being fruitful and replenishing and subduing the earth has to do with bearing children and also with having stewardship over not only our families, but the earth as well.
Vs All that God made was very good. Again the time is reckoned from evening to morning and morning to evening as a day.
Abraham 4:31 And the Gods said: We will do everything that we have said, and organize them; and behold, they shall be very obedient. And it came to pass that it was from evening until morning they called night; and it came to pass that it was from morning until evening that they called day; and they numbered the sixth time.
The Sabbath Day
Why is the Sabbath day important to you? How important is it to the Lord that we observe the Sabbath? Why?
Elder David A. Bednar taught, “The Sabbath is God’s time, a sacred time specifically set apart for worshipping Him and for receiving and remembering His great and precious promises.”
How has the Lord blessed you for keeping His day holy? How is the Sabbath a delight (see Isaiah 58:13-14)? also D&C 59:9-13.
Readings:
Genesis 2:1-3; Moses 3:1-3; Abraham 5:1-3:
How can we
remember the Lord on his day? How has honoring the Sabbath blessed
your life on that day and throughout the week? What added blessings
and protections do you see in your life as a result of keeping the
Sabbath day holy?
How does it help you to know, from
Abraham’s account, that God planned to rest on the seventh day? Why
is there wisdom in resting on the Lord’s day? How can observing the
Sabbath, as the Gods did, help us be renewed in our work all the week
long?
Do we delight ourselves in the Lord, and thus renew our covenants with him, obtaining the blessings of the covenants (See Isaiah 58: 13-14)?
Watch video: The Sabbath is a good day to reconnect with the Lord and with our families.
Continue Readings: Finish Geneses 2; Moses 3; Abraham 5:
Adam and Eve gained experience in the Garden of Eden. It was a schooling place for them. (See Geneses 2:15)
Adam created
language (vs 19-20).
Adam and Eve were meant to be
together forever. This is God’s design for all married couples (see
vs 22-24).
Question on Moses
3:7: Was Adam the first flesh on the earth, or just the first man?
Was he created as flesh and bones before the creation continued? Did
he assist in the creation after being made flesh?
Upon
reading Abraham’s account, I am thinking that this may be the way
it was. Not sure. Doesn’t matter now, just really interesting.
Family Study
What do the creations from each day teach of about Heavenly Father and Jesus?
How many times does God call His creations good? How should we take care of this earth He created for us? How are things worded differently in Abraham’s account?
Why is it important to know that we were created in God’s image? How does it affect the way we feel about ourselves, others, and God? (Moses 2:27)
God’s commandment to replenish the earth is an important one? Why do you think the longing for marriage and children has been so central to the desire of the human heart throughout the ages? Why do you think Satan is trying to destroy that righteous desire so vehemently now.
The Lord has told us that man is to have dominion over the other creatures and plants on this earth? What does that mean? How can we care for the earth? (See D&C 59:16-21)
Watch the video.
Why should we delight in the Sabbath day? (See Moses
3:1-3).
Comparing Creation stories. (from
teacher’s
manuel)
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/come-follow-me-for-sunday-school-old-testament-
2022/02?lang=eng
Genesis |
Moses |
Abraham |
1. In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
I am
the Beginning and the End, the Almighty God; by mine Only
Begotten I created these
things; yea, in
the beginning I created the heaven, and the earth upon
which thou standest.
Let us go down. And they went down
at the beginning, and they, that is the Gods, organized and
formed the heavens and the earth.
2. And God made
two great lights; the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
And I, God, made two great lights; the greater light to
rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and
the greater light was the sun, and the lesser light was the
moon; and the stars also were made even according to my word.
And the Gods organized the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; with the lesser light they set the stars also;
3. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion ...So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And I, God, said
unto mine Only Begotten, which was with me from the beginning:
Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness; and it was so. And I, God, said: Let them
have dominion ... And I, God, created man in mine
own image, in the image of mine Only Begotten created I him;
male and female created I them.
And the Gods
took counsel among themselves and said: Let us go down
and form man in our image, after our likeness;
and we will give them dominion….So the Gods went down to
organize man in their own image, in the image of the Gods to
form they him, male and female to form they them.
4. God provided food to sustain all of His creations.
5.
There was perfect order to God’s creations. He had it all planned
out. He had a blueprint. He
created everything spiritually
(Moses) before He created it physically. All things were created
for the use of man (Abraham).
6. It did not rain upon the earth to begin with.
7.
And
the Lord God formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life; and man became a living soul.
And I,
the Lord God, formed man from the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul, the first flesh
upon the earth, the first man also; nevertheless, all things were
before created; but spiritually were they created and made according
to my word.
And
the Gods formed man from the dust of the ground,
and took his spirit (that is, the man’s spirit), and put
it into him; and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and
man became a living soul.
8. All trees were made by God.
They also became living souls (Moses), both spiritually and
temporally created. Trees were made to be pleasant to our sight and
good for food. The tree of
knowledge of good and evil was also
there.
9. In these verses
we learn that the fruit of the tree of life was forbidden, that Adam
needed a wife, and that Adam gave God’s creations names.
Thou
shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that
thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Thou shalt not eat of it, nevertheless, thou
mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee;
but, remember that I forbid it, for in the day thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Thou
shalt not eat of it; for in the time that thou eatest thereof,
thou shalt surely die
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