num_pages: 204
description: As the first who chose to cross the threshold into mortality Eve is truly the personification of life. To understand her mission we must first recognize Eves proper elevated place  a noble position beside Adam with a beautiful balanced interdependence between them. Their example of enthusiastically embracing mortality with all its accompanying challenges provides meaning encouragement and direction for each of us along our complex and sometimes thorny paths home.For millennia writes author Melinda Brown the world has dismissed the story of Adam and Eve as simply a choice between good and evil with the obvious conclusion the Eve chose evil. But on much closer inspection we can discover and lead others to discover that the choice was in fact between certainty and uncertainty security and risk fear and faith. Eves most remarkable choice had everything to do with stagnation versus progress. Hers was a decision to trust God.With its in-depth examination of the scriptural account Eve and Adam provides an opportunity for deep pondering and reflection on our own mortal experience and how they draw us step by step toward exaltation.
language: English
title: Eve and Adam: Discovering the Beautiful Balance
publisher: Deseret Book Co