From MormonWiki.org
Mormonism teaches that
The Fall was a wonderful and fortunate event, empowering man with more
liberty to choose (now "knowing good and evil"), with the ability to procreate, and with the opportunity to prove one's worthiness through a learning process unto personal exaltation and full potential (godhood). This is connected to other Mormon doctrines like the
purpose of life,
eternal progression, and
Pelagianism. The curses that followed the fall of Adam and Eve are considered blessings, and the action that Adam and Even committed is considered righteous, intelligent, and worth imitating. To rationalize this, Mormons make a distinction between "transgression" and "sin", and argue from the premise that Adam and Eve could not have obeyed the command to "be fruitful and multiply" without first eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. (
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