The First 2000 Years Cleon Skousen: How the Patriarchs and Prophets Shaped Humanity

The first 2,000 years of human history occupy only 36 pages of the Bible. This epoch was once shrouded in mystery and myth, but modern revelation now answers many difficult questions: Did the Patriarchs really live for hundreds of years? Why were pagan religions so seductive? When did the Great Flood occur? How did Enoch set up Zion and eliminate poverty and crime? This book sheds inspired light on all these topics and more.

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I believe along with the Book of Abraham that the Gods commanded then waited to be obeyed. I'm just not sure it is to the level that Skousen suggests. I think it is more of an issue of the Gods forming higher forms of intelligence (atoms -> molecules -> higher forms) one step at a time, and it takes some time to do all the creating and forming. I do not believe in ex nihilo Creation, where God snaps his fingers and boom! it suddenly is all in place. I believe the Creation took millions and billions of years, with the first life appearing more than a billion years AFTER the beginning of the earth's creation. I then believe that God (or the Gods) used evolution to develop life on earth over billions of years. That requires patient waiting as things are allowed to transpire. Finally Adam was placed upon the earth when all was ready. 2ff7e9595c