Consider this, before the Fall we did have agency. Old scriptures tell us of a great event of which we participated, “When God laid the foundations of the earth, …show more content…
2 Nephi 2:27’ At this point in the plan, a law has been broken and the demands of Justice are to be satisfied. Jesus Christ then, came to atoned for all God’s children. His infinite and eternal sacrifice (Alma 34:10) freed us from the consequences of the Fall. Therefore, all spiritual children of God who came to this earth become free forever from the consequences of the Fall. Agreeably, it is the Atonement of Jesus Christ which makes men be “free forever” (see 2 Ne 2:26-27)
Finally, my mind asks, did the Atonement come because of the Fall? Elder Bruce McConkie agrees to it in his speech “Christ and the Creation” Ensign, June 1982,9. He says,” If there have been no Fall, there would be no Atonement.” Then, could we conclude that it is because of the Fall that we have the ability to choose good from evil? and consequently, were immortality and eternal life made possible because of the fall?. Alma