Bruce C. Hafen and Marie K. Hafen said the New Testament is Christ giving the atonement and the temple shows Adam and Eve receiving the atonement.
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- Book
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- Bruce C. Hafen LDS
- Hearsay
- Direct
- Reference
Bruce C. Hafen and Marie K. Hafen. "Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the temple" in Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon (Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021), 18
- People
- John W. Welch, Scott Gordon, David R. Seely, Bruce C. Hafen, Marie K. Hafen, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
- Audience
- General Public
PDF- Transcription
Years ago, a friend said to me, “Christ is at the center of the temple. And Christ is at the center of the gospel. So why doesn’t the temple endowment teach the story of the life of Christ? What’s all this about Adam and Eve?” At that time, neither of us could answer his question.
But Marie and I now feel settled with this answer: the story of the life of Christ is the story of giving the Atonement. And the story of Adam and Eve is the story of receiving the Atonement. Their story is our story too. We can look at them and say, “That’s the story of my life.” And when we’re in the temple, we can naturally think of ourselves as if we were Adam and Eve.
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