Welcome to part two of this week's podcast.

I think for me personally, I have seen, as I've learned more and more about this, the value of the Book of Mormon is just increasing in my eyes.

Second Nephi 2, Second Nephi 9, Alma 12. I've started reading Alma 12 the other day and I'm like, wow, we know so much about this story because of the Book of Mormon.

I just want to make sure I mention that. The Book of Mormon Sheds opens up the window here to what is really happening.

And Hank, can I make a connection because it who is Second Nephi 2? It is Lehigh talking to Jacob who later on is right Second Nephi 9.

And I love the whole backstory. Jacob, let me kind of explain, you are born in the wilderness, you've seen family contention. Let me explain the fall, let me explain opposition and all things, let me explain why.

And then later Jacob explains it even with even more detail in Second Nephi 9. It's so fun to see that, oh, that's the same guy, Jacob, who's learned a lot about the fall and fallen man.

That's really great. Well, so if we go back to Genesis 3 now for a little bit, then you get this moment then when Eve and eyes I like to think about it, Eve feeling this tension and Adam would probably pretty just easily say, no, I understand how this works.

If the fruit is offered to you, you say no, right? That might be what Adam might do there. I know the rules and I'm obedient. I'm going to follow those rules. Eve maybe feels this tension a little bit greater.

And there are biblical readers who would say it was always intended. This is a maturation story. And they're supposed to eat the fruit at some point.

There comes a time when you don't stay in the garden, you leave the garden. And that's more, again, less not so much Christian or Pauline readers as we might say it, but Jewish readers are a little bit more.

They just sort of come at that text without having the New Testament and say, no, the idea is at some point she's going to eat the fruit and they're going to leave the garden. They're going to eat the fruit and they're going to leave the garden.

Well, so she's got this growing tension in her and then Satan offers her this fruit. Now, it's not a good image when you take the fruit out of Satan's hand.

There's some almost ritual ordinance, almost sacrament imagery there that we should not miss in our rush to just say everything is perfect here.

I'm not sure that we want to say everything is perfect here. An analogy I like to use is, you know, if I buy at least in our family, if I buy a car and I don't tell my wife and I come home with it, that's not a good thing.

There's other families where that might work really well, but not in my house. No, when you do those things, if you're going to have children, well, I mean, just functionally, you know, it's a decision to people have to make, right?

But here Eve makes a decision that has a very permanent effect on her relationship with Adam and she does it without Adam being present.

And so there's a break here that's caused.

And then the way that I like to read it and that I see it is that then Satan Lucifer is trying to enhance that break when he sends her to sort of confront Adam and try to get him to protect.

But this is where the love story is enhanced. And I think in our marriage, there are these times when we've done something that might be hurtful to the other to our partner.

And then Eve very powerfully, vulnerably stands in front of Adam, make it as it were, right?

Honest, open, vulnerable. I've eaten this fruit. And Adam, I love this moment, this woman that he had first looked at and loved when God says it's not good for man to be alone.

...