Jonny, let me say this, you have a very errr *unique* and *special* way of looking at scripture, it just happens to disagree w/ thousands upon thousands of years of understanding...
With that said...
jonny said:
Many believe that working on Sunday is breaking the Sabbath, but the doctor, in performing his duties, is accomplishing a greater good. People need doctors - even on Sunday.
Who is the many? You will not find one Jew who finds working on Sunday is a sin. Furthermore, you will be hard pressed to find Christians who even understand the 39 melachot (forbidden activities). Also, when a life is in danger, you're obligated to save that person and throw all but 3 laws aside:
jonny said:
Adam and Eve were given two commandments - they were told to be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Where does it say to replenish the earth? Other then that, I agree.
jonny said:
They were also told that they should not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. In one version of the creation in LDS scriptures, after God gives this commandment, he gives a reason and presents a choice:
"Moses 3:13 - But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, nevertheless, thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee; but, remember that I forbid it, for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
First of all, that's the verse 2:16-17 in Bereishis that Mr. Smith is attempting to translate... Also, I'm looking at the hebrew, and there are a lot of words added in your translation. This is the hebrew... וּמֵעֵץ, הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע--לֹא תֹאכַל, מִמֶּנּוּ: כִּי, בְּיוֹם אֲכָלְךָ מִמֶּנּוּ--מוֹת תָּמוּת
Very literally it plainly says... "But of that Tree of knowledge of Good and Bad, you must not eat thereof for on the day that you eat of it you will die surely."
Again, that's not a perfect translation as I just translated it myself and I'm sure you could find someone with a better English vocabulary. However, the whole part that you bolded, is just not found in the MT or the DSS or the Septuagint. So where that came from, was obviously not revealed to Moshe, but you know, you're more then free to continue...
Now, I'm not a 100% sure what the "Book of Moses" was, so I entered into Wikopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Moses
It says that it was revealed to him through revalation, correct? Well if not, you can go edit that entry to something more accurate, until then, I'll assume this book came from one persons "revalation".
jonny said:
Adam and Eve are presented with free agency in the garden. They have a decision to make. They can either live eternally in the garden and not procreate.
Well, we run into another snag, every major Jewish biblical sage agrees that all the events here including cain and abel occurred on the day that Adam was created... Hence, from the Jewish perspective and mine, your theory about them not procreating in the garden is pretty errr *wild*. But again, you can continue to ignore this for Mr. Smith's "Revalation".
jonny said:
The other choice is to partake of the fruit of the tree, be cast out of the garden, and go through life - learning - in order to become like God.
Can you expand on this a little? I have some skepticm on what this this is suppose to mean, you left it very vauge and open to several different readings.
jonny said:
Understanding the Fall of Adam is vital to understanding Christianity in my opinion. The story of Adam and Eve sets the stage for the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
Yes, well, this is an entirely different point, one which I don't feel like debating *again*, especially since the silence from virtually every person on this forum in the determing prophecy thread where I shreded the major prophecies about Mr. J.
Anyways, I don't want this to become in a huge debate, although I find it very interesting you listen to one guys revelation over Moshe. Something to hopefully get you to at least think about your position:
1. Everything I command you that you shall be careful to do it. You shall neither add to it, nor subtract from it.
2. If there will arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of a dream, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
3. and the sign or the wonder of which he spoke to you happens, [and he] says, "Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us worship them,"
4. you shall not heed the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of a dream; for the Lord, your God, is testing you, to know whether you really love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul.
5. You shall follow the Lord, your God, fear Him, keep His commandments, heed His voice, worship Him, and cleave to Him.
6. And that prophet, or that dreamer of a dream shall be put to death; because he spoke falsehood about the Lord, your God Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and Who redeemed you from the house of bondage, to lead you astray from the way in which the Lord, your God, commanded you to go; so shall you clear away the evil from your midst.
This was given from Moshe thousands of years ago, your verse was given like less then 200 years ago.