A Good Conversation

One of my best friends (and only friends... err) is a brilliant scriptorian. In a good way. Not a scholarly way. He makes good use of the big HG(2 Nephi 28:26).

He called me up the other day after he read something in the Lectures on Faith about God cursing Adam and Eve after their disobedience. He realized something in response to something my mother-in-law had said to us a few days earlier that "[she] doesn't know much about prophecy, but she knows that when a woman is in a leadership position, it's a bad thing." The thing he realized was that before our first parents' transgression, they were both accountable to God and God only. After their transgression, Adam was made to "rule over" Eve(Moses 4:22). It was the curse placed on them - both of them - by God as a result of the woman obeying someone other than God. Therefore, she was to be "ruled over" by the one who was willing to obey Father. This is not to say it is good for man to rule over woman. But for now, it is right. And you have to understand, "rule" in it's most pure form takes on the role of a servant, ministering truth to those who aren't getting it directly from God yet. Some who have occupied this role in past generations have certainly misused it to get gain, praise, and to harm others. This is the way of the Gentiles... but we are way off track now.

I have, unfortunately, encountered a "prophetess" who was able to gather a small following. She sells classes to people for hundreds of dollars, claiming that they will bring people to God. She was able to get some of her followers to commit adultery, claiming that it would bring them "higher light and truth" than they previously had.

Shit man...

There are thousands of stories of men doing equally horrible things as "leaders", I know. This was just a fresh, personal example of my own.

Anyway. We have one Hillary Clinton running for America's presidency. Eesh.

This is where my friend and I continued our conversation:

"So Hillary is trying to rule, right? And I noticed" he said "that it is the way of the world, not to be redeemed from God's curses, but to reverse them. And that just makes things worse than they were! The perverse curse is worse than the first!"

You see, if we wanted to be redeemed from the curse, then man and woman would both be accountable to God again. No one "rules" over anyone else.

Well, we went down the list of curses that God pronounced on Adam and Eve after they fell and sure enough, we are busy down here trying to reverse them all.