The account of the creation and placement of life on earth, as well as the subsequent fall from paradisiacal and Edenic glory, is given in our present biblical record with little detail and even less context. Very frequently the Bible will tell us what happened, while the more thorough and complete accounts (as given in the JST or as taught in the brass plates) will tell us additionally why it happened. After arriving in the promised land, Lehi gave a marvelous discourse to his son Jacob based upon those things which he had read on the brass plates.
Matters which received serious and detailed attention were Lucifer’s fall from heaven; the temptation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; the importance and necessity of the fall of our first parents as a means to the perpetuation of the human family; the value of an extended period of probation in the early days of the earth’s temporal continuance; and the essential tie between the Creation, the Fall, and the Atonement. (See 2 Nephi 2:17-27.)