Item Detail
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28008
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English
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LDS Youth in an Age of Transition
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Dead Wood and Rushing Water : Essays on Mormon Faith, Culture, and Family
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Greg Kofford Books
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65-69
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I'm not sure we always appreciate the radical difference between our Mormon understanding of the Fall and that of most contemporary Christians. For them, the Fall of Adam and Eve was a disaster, the advent of all toil, sin, and suffering. [...] For us Latter-day Saints, the Fall was as much part of the original plan as was Christ's atonement. They were both intended from the foundations of time. They were Plan A rather than emergency-backup-Plan B. Both were essential for humanity to exist and for us to achieve our full potential. [From the text]