Matter and Energy

                Last time we concluded by asking how Adam and Eve were capable of choosing imperfection when they were created perfectly.  To answer this we’re going to discuss a little bit about the laws of the universe.  A perfect god would live by these laws in order to maintain order.

                The law we need to discuss deals with matter and energy.  Both of these always exist.  They cannot be formed nor destroyed.  They can change form, but they cannot come into being or cease to be. 

                So when God created Adam and Eve, He took existing matter and reformed it into their physical bodies.  These bodies were incapable of action, however, until He gave them the energy of life.  The energies God used were spirit bodies He had previously formed.  Together the spirit and physical bodies formed the living soul capable of choice and action.

But where did the energies for the spirit bodies come from in order for God to create them?  Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe they came from intelligences.  These intelligences always existed and carried an individual will.  A friend of mine and I have discussed the possibility these intelligences were a form of light, which is endlessly bountiful.  But that is mere speculation on our part.

These intelligences were not created by God, nor were they perfect.  Since they were energies that could not be created or destroyed, they already existed.  So the ability for Adam and Eve to choose imperfection lay within the essence of their spirit bodies, the intelligences.  Their individual will, which they always had, coupled with this will’s imperfection allowed these intelligences to choose either perfection or imperfection.  This also allowed for a choice of either good or bad.  This allowed God to create perfect creations and still allow for the agency of choice without violating the laws of the universe.

Unfortunately these intelligences had individual will to act and choose but lacked the capacity to do so.  Forming them into spirit bodies gave them a limited amount of the needed capacity.  The physical body increased this ability further.

So why would a perfect god use imperfect energies to create beings?  What was the purpose?  This will be the subject of the next discussion.