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  • I do not pretend to interpret what God is thinking. However, the fall was necessary in order to fulfill Gods purposes and without it we would not be here. Allot of the problems people have with religion are due to an incorrect understanding of the nature of God. God is perfect and could not have placed us in this imperfect situation. God placed Adam and Eve into an environment where using their freedom to choose caused the fall to happen. It is similar to the atonement. You might ask, why did Christ have to suffer. Why can't God just save us. Well, because God is perfectly just, there must be a payment made for sin. Otherwise God would not be just. The atonement allows God to be perfectly merciful and perfectly just at the same time.
  • According to Mormon theology, we pass through a veil of forgetfulness when we are born. Likewise Adam and Eve lost their memories from the pre-existence when they gained physical bodies. This is why they didn't recognize Satan as the fallen angel. Without a recollection of their former life, Adam and Eve would not immediately recognize that partaking of the forbidden fruit was necessary in the Plan of Salvation. As for their immediate guilt, Adam and Eve were not ashamed of their nakedness until Satan pointed it out.
  • God was clothed and they were naked. Something they either had not noticed or placed no significance on. But now with the knowledge of Good and Evil... . I don't know just WHAT the all the differences are between those who HAVE a knowledge of good and evil and those who do not. (We have no cases of the latter to compare the former with.) But evidently this is one of them. . As for rejoicing over the plan of salvation, they had just acquired the ability to appreciate it. The understanding of it takes time, line upon line, precept upon precept.,

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