Moses 3

(January 3, 2014)
I think there is some significance to the fact that the Lord created every creature on the face of the Earth and presented it to Adam for him to consider and to dismiss before presenting him with Eve for his helpmeet.  I draw two lessons from this.  First, there is nothing in mortality or in all of God’s creation that can supplant the precious place of a woman as a necessary and essential helpmeet for a man – not the office, not video games, and not sports.  Secondly, I think there is something to the nature of the way that we learn that is presented in this chapter.  Adam found nothing else to supplant Eve, but I think he was better able to understand that after looking for a helpmeet elsewhere and realizing that there was nothing there of meaning.