Where do we begin when teaching the plan of salvation?
Teaching the plan of salvation begins with the first law God gave the human race, found in Genesis chapter 3 when Eve is confronted by Satan. God's command about the tree in the garden becomes law because when God says something, it is law, and this is the starting point.
Les explains that the plan of salvation is so simple and plain that a six-year-old can comprehend it, yet so complex that we will never fully comprehend it until we get to glory. He says we always have to begin with what he calls the very first law that God gave to the human race. We pick it up in Genesis chapter 3, when Eve is confronted by old Satan. In Genesis 3:2, Eve tells the serpent that they may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden God has said. When God says something, that becomes law. This is the first law He gives to the human race. Eve is quoting it, and she is not getting it 100% right, but mostly.
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: