Earth, Purpose of
See also Creation
- replenish the earth, and subdue it: Gen. 1:28 . ( Moses 2:28 . )
- put him into the garden of Eden to dress it: Gen. 2:15 .
- ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil: Gen. 3:5 . ( Gen. 3:22 . )
- he formed it to be inhabited: Isa. 45:18 .
- According to the eternal purpose which he purposed: Eph. 3:11 .
- by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature: 2 Pet. 1:4 .
- would have been no purpose in the end of its creation: 2 Ne. 2:12 .
- to bring about his eternal purposes in the end of man: 2 Ne. 2:15 .
- a probationary state; a time to prepare to meet God: Alma 12:24 . ( Alma 42:4 . )
- purposes … prepared from the foundation of the world: Alma 42:26 .
- If … not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted: D&C 2:3 .
- thus did I … appoint unto man the days of his probation: D&C 29:43 . ( D&C 29:39–45 . )
- that the earth might answer the end of its creation: D&C 49:16 .
- all things … made for the benefit and the use of man: D&C 59:18 .
- sanctified … that it may be prepared for the celestial glory: D&C 88:18 .
- bodies who are of the celestial kingdom may possess it: D&C 88:20 .
- things of the earth … the purpose and the end: D&C 101:33 .
- ordained in the midst of the Council … before this world was: D&C 121:32 .
- For mine own purpose have I made these things: Moses 1:31 .
- to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life: Moses 1:39 .
- we will make an earth whereon these may dwell: Abr. 3:24 .
- prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things: Abr. 3:25 .
