Seven of Everything

The effects of Adam's transgression were spiritual death - separation from the presence of God - and physical (or temporal) death - separation from the presence of a physical body, symbolic of the spiritual death which already occurred - and both affect all of mankind. Although we usually refer to them as two deaths, in the scriptures they are referred to as one death, specifically the first death: "Yea, behold, this death [Christ's death] bringeth to pass the resurrection, and redeemeth all mankind from the first death—that spiritual death; for all mankind, by the fall of Adam being cut off from the presence of the Lord, are considered as dead, both as to things temporal and to things spiritual . " This first death is a result of the first judgment which came upon man ( 2 Nephi 9:7 ). This is the only place in scripture that refers to the final event in the garden of Eden as a judgment . When Jacob says "may God raise you from death by the power of the ...

As I have been thinking about my recent move and the help that I have needed, I think about others and the help that they may need in their daily lives. I often listen to general conference talks in my car as I go about my day-to-day activities. These are a couple of things that have stuck out to me: "During the Great Depression, Harold B. Lee, serving then as a stake president, was asked by the Brethren to find an answer to the oppressive poverty, sorrow, and hunger that were so widespread across the world at that time. He struggled to find a solution and took the matter to the Lord and asked, “What kind of an organization will we have … to do this?” "And “it was as though the Lord had said [to him]: ‘Look, son. You don’t need any other organization. I have given you the greatest organization there is on the face of the earth. Nothing is greater than the priesthood organization. All in the world you need to do is to put the priesthood to work. That’s all.’”" ( Prov...

I gave a talk on this verse back in 2005: Isaiah 2:3 and 2 Nephi 12:3 And many people shall go and say: 1) Come ye, 2) and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, 3) to the house of the God of Jacob; 4) and he will teach us of his ways, 5) and we will walk in his paths: 6) for out of Zion shall go forth the law, 7) and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.