Genesis 3:21; “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.”
Today we’re looking at part of the LDS temple ceremony known as the
Garden Endowment Ceremony. Our purpose in doing this is to ask Mormons why they’d celebrate the sin of Adam and Eve. We’re only posting the part of this section that pertains to our subject matter, but if you’d like to read it in full you can do so by clicking on this link.
“[Lucifer returns as Adam is eating the fruit.]
LUCIFER: That is right.
EVE: [To Adam.] It is better for us to pass through sorrow that we may know the good from the evil.
[To Lucifer.] I know thee now. Thou art Lucifer, he who was cast out of Father’s presence for rebellion.
LUCIFER: Yes. You are beginning to see already.
ADAM: What is that apron you have on?
LUCIFER: It is an emblem of my power and priesthoods.
ADAM: Priesthoods?
LUCIFER: Yes, priesthoods.
ADAM: I am looking for Father to come down to give us further instructions.
LUCIFER: Oh, you are looking for Father to come down, are you?
[Elohim and Jehovah are heard speaking outside the Garden Room.]
ELOHIM: Jehovah, we promised Adam that we would visit him and give him further instructions. Come, let us go down.
JEHOVAH: We will go down, Elohim.
ADAM: I hear their voices; they are coming.
LUCIFER: See–you are naked. Take some fig leaves and make you aprons. Father will see your nakedness. Quick! Hide!
[Lucifer withdraws from view.]
ADAM: Brethren and sisters, put on your aprons.
[He waits until they have done so.]
[To Eve.] Come, let us hide.
[Adam and Eve withdraw from view.]
THE GODS RETURN
[Elohim and Jehovah return to the Garden Room.]
ELOHIM: Adam! Adam! Adam, where art thou?
[Adam returns.]
ADAM: I heard thy voice and hid myself, because I was naked.
ELOHIM: Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou partaken of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, of which we commanded thee not to partake?
ADAM: The woman thou gavest me and commanded that she should remain with me–she gave me of the fruit of the tree, and I did eat.
ELOHIM: Eve!
[Eve returns.]
ELOHIM: What is this that thou hast done?
EVE: The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
LUCIFER IS EXPELLED FROM THE GARDEN
ELOHIM: Lucifer!
[Lucifer returns.]
ELOHIM: What hast thou been doing here?
LUCIFER: I have been doing that which has been done on other worlds.
ELOHIM: What is that?
LUCIFER: I have been giving some of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil to them.
ELOHIM: Lucifer, because thou hast done this, thou shalt be cursed above all the beasts of the field. Upon thy belly thou shalt go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
LUCIFER: If thou cursest me for doing the same thing which has been done on other worlds, I will take the spirits that follow me, and they shall possess the bodies thou createst for Adam and Eve!
ELOHIM: I will place enmity between thee and the seed of the woman. Thou mayest have power to bruise his heal, but he shall have power to crush thy head.
LUCIFER: Then with that enmity I will take the treasures of the earth, and with gold and silver I will buy up armies and navies, popes and priests, and reign with blood and horror on the earth!
ELOHIM: Depart!
[Lucifer passes from the Garden Room into the World Room.]”
Why?
What would make you think parading around in a fig leaf apron would be acceptable to God? It’s like the ultimate rejection of what He did for Adam and Eve.
It’s a total rebellion of what He did, not to mention they’ve overlooked (aka rejected) the message here that God shed blood to cover the sin of Adam and Eve.
Where in the Bible does it say Satan jumps from one imaginary earth to another to introduce evil?
Where in the Bible does it say Lucifer or Satan, or whoever the demon is, talks back to God and God argues with him?
Furthermore, this temple script is saying they should obey Lucifer’s commandment! This is the absolute epitome of evil.
Pray for these people won’t you?
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