Was the Fall of Adam and Eve a Blessed Event or a Curse According to Mormonism? You May Be Surprised!

Was the transgression and fall of our First Parents a joyous and blessed event or was it the source of sorrow, suffering, alienation from God and death? According to the Mormon Pearl of Great Price it was cause for great rejoicing.

“Adam and Eve expressed their gratitude for the blessings that came as a result of the fall. Adam blessed God and was filled, and began to prophesy concerning all the families of the earth, saying, ‘blessed be the name of God, for because of my transgression my eyes are opened, and in this life I shall have joy, and again in the flesh I shall see God.’ And Eve his wife heard all these things and was glad, saying: ‘Were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient’” Moses 5:10 & 11

The Bible makes it plain that this first transgression was sin and that sin brings the wrath and punishment of God: “Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned” (Rom. 5:12 ). Contrary to Mormon teaching there is nothing good that comes from this or any other sin—only physical, spiritual, and eternal death. “For the wages of sin is death…” (Rom. 6:23).

Also, unlike Mormonism, the Bible does not trivialize the awfulness of sin. It teaches that sinners “are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity” (Eph. 4:18-19).

 

If the Mormon view were right there would be no need of a Savior and the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Christ would be meaningless. Adam and Eve’s disobedience to God was a tragedy of cosmic proportions and because of it all of creation remains under a curse. Mankind needs a Savior to bring about a reconciliation to God, and Jesus alone is that Savior.

 

This and many more Mormon doctrines and teachings are discussed in my soon to be released book: Mormonism and the Bible.