Why do we call it Adam’s “transgression”?

Thomas R. Valletta

Elder Dallin H. Oaks taught: “Some Christians condemn Eve for her act, concluding that she and her daughters are somehow flawed by it. Not the Latter-day Saints! Informed by revelation, we celebrate Eve’s act and honor her wisdom and courage in the great episode called the Fall [see McConkie, ‘Eve and the Fall,’ 67–68] … Elder Joseph Fielding Smith said: ‘I never speak of the part Eve took in this fall as a sin, nor do I accuse Adam of a sin. … This was a transgression of the law, but not a sin … for it was something that Adam and Eve had to do!’ [Doctrines of Salvation, 1:114–15]” (“Great Plan of Happiness,” 73).

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