Today we're going back to the beginning to cosmic explosions and brilliant flashes of light and creation.

That is primordial at the very core of our existence. We have four accounts of it in Genesis, Moses, Abraham, and in the temple.

Those who attend the temple have their

minds drawn back to creation continually, and we might wonder, as Latter-day Saints, why are we shown

the creation so often? We'll talk about why it matters so much today.

Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor, and this is Meridian Magazine's Come and See podcast, where today we study creation in Genesis 1 and 2, Moses 2 and 3, and Abraham 4 and 5.

You can find all of our podcast and the transcripts at Latterdayst.mag.com forward slash podcast.

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We learn in Moses 1 why we are continually drawn back to the mighty magnificence of the creation.

Moses is shown personally God's work in this sweeping expanse. His moving upon stars and creation. Moses is shown personally God's work in this sweeping expanse. His moving upon stars

and creating clusters of galaxies. Why all this grandeur and precision of labor? The Lord says,

for behold, this is my work and my glory to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. His work is creation,

but it is merely the backdrop for his sons and daughters to be transformed and finally exalted.

Creation is the prelude to his great work, which is us, which is you. Caught here in mortality in the thick of thin things,

it is almost incomprehensible that a god who could create the universe is first and foremost interested in you,

because even though stars can last billions of years, you are immortal.

C.S. Lewis said,

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations, these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals

whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. That veil that dropped was a thick

one for us, and it not only hid God from us, but us from ourselves. You hardly know who you are. We see this creation enacted

before us in the temple and study it in scriptures to remember who God is and receive an inkling

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