In the beginning. Even people who don't regularly read scriptural or recognize that famous phrase.

Creation and recreation are at the center of Genesis, Moses, and Abraham, showing the process

of continual renewal and improvement at the center of Latter-day St. Cosmology.

That last word, cosmology, means the study of the origin and development of the universe.

It seems, at least to me, that cosmology should also mean the origins and development of our own universes.

How do we become the people we're meant to be?

How do we create our lives in ways that put everything in their proper place,

including our relationships to God, to the Scriptures, and to one another?

My name is Joseph Stewart.

I'm the Public Communications Specialist at the Neely Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship of Rigged Mung University.

Christian Heal is a research associate at the Maxwell Institute,

and each week we will be discussing the week's block of reading from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,

come follow me curriculum. We aren't here to present a lesson, but rather to hit on a few key themes from the

scripture block so as to help fulfill the Maxwell Institute's mission to inspire and fortify Latter-day Saints,

and their testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and engage the world of religious ideas.

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social media, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter at the handle at BYUu Maxwell. Christian, today we're

reading Genesis 1 and 2, Moses 2 and 3, and Abraham 4 and 5. What's going on in this block of

scripture? These two chapters recount the creation of the world, all creatures and humanity, and then focus

on the creation of humanity and their existence in the Garden of Eden. For Lacedday Saints,

the story exists in these multiple accounts, each slightly different, illustrating the vitality and value, I think, of the ongoing

restoration that President Nelson has been teaching us about.

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