Some people feel like this woman who said, if you can show me why the fall matters in

this moment, then maybe I'll listen.

If not, the kids are crying and I have reality to deal with.

Hello friends, and welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast, where Scott and

Maureen Proctor and together today will be talking about the fall of Adam and Eve in

Genesis 3 and 4 and Moses 4 and 5.

James Ferrell said, here's why the fall matters today, while it is true that mankind fell

from the presence of God with the fall of Adam and Eve, the fall is repeated a new

many times over by each of us.

And with every personal fall, we give away something precious beyond measure, something

surprising, even shocking, the very agency we fought to keep in the primordial world.

Were it not for the Lord's Atonement, we would be lost not only eternally, but in each

and every moment, enslaved to the anger, frustration, resentment, and despair that

crush us as we fall?

So the fall is as much a modern event as an ancient one, as is the Lord's Atonement,

which is the lifting remedy that rescues us from the doom and gloom we may feel stuck

within.

Creation, fall, redemption, these are the three pillars of eternity, the story that

was Adam and Eve's and ours too.

It is one grand picture.

We think of a book like the Old Testament as being dusty and very far away from us, but

in reality it is our first story.

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