The visions of Moses and Abraham, as found in the Pearl of Great Price, radically reframe how Latter-day Saints understand and think about creation. As Terryl Givens writes about Moses chapter one, “Here we see the first concrete foundation of what is becoming a full-blown cosmic narrative emerging from [Joseph] Smith’s theological innovations. The creation story that follows, a retelling of Genesis 1, is hereby radically recontextualized—not as a primal act of the universe’s creation ex nihilo but as one particular instance of a timeless, ever-continuing creation of world upon world, in a dynamic, still-emerging cosmos inhabited by embodied spirits, consequent to a divine purpose that envisions the apotheosis of the human family.”

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