President Joseph Fielding Smith summarized the choice presented to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden:
“The Lord said to Adam, here is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you want to stay here then you cannot eat of that fruit. If you want to stay here then I forbid you to eat it. But you may act for yourself and you may eat of it if you want to. And if you eat it you will die” (“Fall--Atonement--Resurrection--Sacrament” [address given at LDS Institute of Religion, Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 14, 1961]).
