“Placing Themselves in a State to Act”
Agency is largely a product of knowledge and understanding. Adam and Eve, in their paradisiacal condition, were naively innocent and thus unable to serve as responsible moral agents. Having partaken of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, having gained an understanding of good and evil, having broadened their scope of the plan of salvation, they were now in a position to act instead of simply being acted upon (see 2 Nephi 2:13).
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