“The Fall was a planned event, and it was a noble thing Adam and Eve did. Otherwise they would have remained in the Garden, and they would have had no children (‘the family of all the earth’). That would have frustrated the whole plan of God to provide for his children’s education a probation—a time of testing, learning, experiencing, growing, and becoming like the Father and the Son. Living innocently in Eden would have denied them the opportunity to acquire godlike goodness and real joy.
“So Adam and Eve purposefully brought about the Fall to provide mortal life for all the Father’s children and to facilitate their opportunity to learn joy” (Ogden and Skinner, Book of Mormon, 1:122).