The Principle of the Fall

2 Nephi 9:20 "O how great the holiness of our God! For he knoweth all things, and there is not anything save he knows it."

Adam and Eve were given two commandments:
1) Multiply and replenish the earth
2) Don't eat the fruit of the tree of life

transgression- doing something without a knowledge of right or wrong
sin- knowingly disobeying God

2 Nephi 2 "Adam fell that men might be, and men are that they might have joy."
-We don't know how long they were in the garden

Consequences of the Fall:
-sorrow
-conception
-work
-joy in redemption
-open eyes
-posterity
-prosperity
-mortality
-temptation
-agency
-knowledge of good and evil
-knowledge of joy and misery
-curse on the earth, had to learn to till the ground

If there is no law, there is no sin. If there is no sin, there is no righteousness nor happiness nor sorrow nor punishment nor God nor earth nor us.