The conditions in the Garden
of Eden:
·
Adam had become as a little child—forgetting all
because of the veil
·
Adam and Eve were given commandments:
Be fruitful
Dress the garden
Stay together in their married state
Do not partake of the “Forbidden Fruit”
·
They had partial agency
They were tempted. i.e. they had a knowledge of their options
·
They had immortal bodies.
Necessities for the mortal
experience
·
Acquire knowledge of Good and Evil
·
Receive the change and responsibility to
exercise agency
·
Have a probationary (preparatory) state
·
Have children
Happiness/Sorrow
Pain/Joy
Life/Death
·
Experience death
·
Be granted a change for repentance—along with
agency. Atonement and a Savior
·
Exercise faith unto obedience
·
Acquire mortal body subject to:
Pain
Infirmities
Death
Temptations
Consequences of the Fall:
·
A mortal body (i.e., Adam and Eve had a
body prior to partaking but now it was quickened by blood and hence subject to
death and other infirmities.)
·
Carnal appetites and devilish nature
·
Complete agency, in that they obtained a
knowledge of good and evil
·
Alienation from God’s presence
·
Lives prolonged so that they could repent and
fulfill the first command (i.e., procreate).
·
Blessings
By the sweat of their brow they did eat
·
The ability to fulfill other, higher commandment
Be fruitful
·
Sin and death introduced into the world
·
Savior provided
·
The Gospel and commandments (Marc S. Elieson, Principles
of The Pearl of Great Price: A Topical Commentary [Lubbock, Tex.:
Enterprise Books, 2001], 431)
