- Mosiah 16:5…Those that continue to sin, rebel, and stay in their fallen state are as though the redemption never happened
- Mosiah 16:4…God sent Christ to rescue us from the fallen state
- Mosiah 16:3…Adam’s fall caused all mankind to become (1) Carnal (2) Sensual (3) Devilish (4) Knowing good from evil (5) Subjecting themselves to the devil
- Moses 5:11-12…Fall was good
- 2 Nephi 2:22-26…Fall of Adam. Why he had to fall)
- Alma 12:26…The Fall was necessary
- 2 Nephi 2:4…Thanks to the fall, the way is prepared and salvation is free
- Alma 12:31… Wherefore, he gave commandments unto men, they having first transgressed the first commandments as to things which were temporal, and becoming as gods, knowing good from evil, placing themselves in a state to act, or being placed in a state to act according to their wills and pleasures, whether to do evil or to do good
- “The Fall was an essential part of man’s mortal probation…Had Adam and Eve not partaken, the great gift of mortality would not have come to them. Moreover, they would have had no posterity, and the great commandment given to them by the Lord would not have been fulfilled. 7 The fall of Adam brought to pass all of the vicissitudes of mortality. It brought pain, it brought sorrow, it brought death; but we must not lose sight of the fact that it brought blessings also…It brought the blessing of knowledge and understanding and mortal life. 8” Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Fielding Smith, (2013), 58–71
- Mosiah 3:9…For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.