further covenants in the temple is because it talks so much about sacrifice. In this paper, I will
show was sacrifice means in the Lord’s eyes and how Adam and Eve’s sacrificial behaviors can
be applied to other righteous people in the Pearl of Great Price, as well as present day. I will also
show the qualifications and blessings of true sacrifice, as well as Satan’s counterfeits for
sacrifice, because rest assured, every gospel truth has a deceptive opposite.
First off, we need to establish the ultimate purpose of sacrifice in our lives and what it
actually means. All of God’s actions are motivated by a desire to “bring to pass the immortality …show more content…
Therefore, true sacrifice cannot to be done self-centeredly, because love of others
must be present.
From the fifth chapter of Moses in verse sixteen, we learn that obeying God and knowing
Him are equivalent statements. In verse sixteen, when Eve conceives and bears Cain, she says, “I
have gotten a man from the Lord; wherefore he may not reject his words.” This implies that Eve
expects Cain to obey the lord--accepting the Lord’s words is equivalent to not rejecting them--
because Cain was given to her by the Lord. But Cain refutes this belief when he asks. “who is the
Lord that I should know him?” We know he is refuting his mother’s statement by how Cain’s
question is introduced; “But behold, Cain hearkened not [unto the Lord], saying…” When we put
the statements of Eve and her son Cain together, we see that knowing the Lord and obeying Him
are considered synonymous in their minds. And besides scriptural wording, it just makes sense;
if you know God, and therefore you know that He is infinitely wise and interested in your
welfare, it makes sense to obey Him. If Cain had truly known the Lord, he would have obeyed
the Lord because it would make sense for the ultimate quality of his