Bex: God's intention was that all would live forever. He gave one test to the two first people for obedience and they failed him. Even though He had given them everything. Who knows how long they enjoyed their bliss in eden before they did this.

Jeanie: We WILL all live forever. Every single one of us is going to be resurrected. But we would never have been born and Adam and Eve would have remained immortal and innocent if not for their choice. God had to warn them of what would happen so it would be their choice. People have a misconception of them.... Adam was Michael in the pre-existence. Both of them were given a great trust as our original father and mother of this earth. They were given the Gospel and lived it faithfully.

You can't really understand this concept, however, without understanding that we lived in a pre-mortal state as spirits. We all participated in choosing "the plan" to come to earth to get bodies. satan rebelled against it and was then cast to the earth with 1/3 of the original hosts of heaven. He knew what would happen and Jesus Christ being our savior was the plan from the beginning. Jesus actually volunteered for it...which made it all the more noble. satan wanted to do it only differently. He wanted all the glory himself and did not want us to have free agency. He claimed he'd get us all back to return (to life with Heavenly Father) but no one truly grows when they don't make these choices of their own free will. he rebelled and took an entire 1/3 of the hosts of heaven with him. they are now here on the earth tempting us. they are miserable. And this is their day..but not for much longer.

The earth itself fell, too, when Adam and Eve did. But it, too, will be redeemed. The flood was its baptism... It will also be cleansed with fire and then become celestialized again.

He is our Father.....Of course he's sad when we make choices that hurt us. But there is a way back. That is THE WHOLE POINT of the Gospel is it not?????