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*Note that the current Gospel Doctrine manual does not explicitly mention the "entire earth," but simply states that there was "no death" prior to the Fall. Adam and Eve were not yet mortal. In this state, "they would have had no children" (2 Nephi 2:23). The statement "there was no death" applies to the Garden of Eden, which is what the paragraph is describing. There is no statement in the manual that there had been no death anywhere in the entire world. | *Note that the current Gospel Doctrine manual does not explicitly mention the "entire earth," but simply states that there was "no death" prior to the Fall. Adam and Eve were not yet mortal. In this state, "they would have had no children" (2 Nephi 2:23). The statement "there was no death" applies to the Garden of Eden, which is what the paragraph is describing. There is no statement in the manual that there had been no death anywhere in the entire world. | ||
*There has been a difference of opinion among Church leaders on the extent to which immortality affected God's creations before the Fall. The interpretation that "no death" applied to the entire earth has been shared by many Church authors, including President Joseph Fielding Smith and Elder Bruce R. McConkie. For example, McConkie's Bible Dictionary states that "Latter-day revelation teaches that there was no death on this earth for any forms of life before the fall of Adam. Indeed, death entered the world as a direct result of the fall (2 Nephi 2:22; Moses 6:48)." | *There has been a difference of opinion among Church leaders on the extent to which immortality affected God's creations before the Fall. The interpretation that "no death" applied to the entire earth has been shared by many Church authors, including President Joseph Fielding Smith and Elder Bruce R. McConkie. For example, McConkie's Bible Dictionary states that "Latter-day revelation teaches that there was no death on this earth for any forms of life before the fall of Adam. Indeed, death entered the world as a direct result of the fall (2 Nephi 2:22; Moses 6:48)." | ||
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| + | In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular...whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant.<br> | ||
| + | —{{JDfairwiki|author=Brigham Young|vol=14|start=116|disc=16|date=May 14, 1871}} | ||
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