“Having partaken of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—that is, having obtained the capacity to distinguish between opposites, and being able now to understand the difference between good and evil—Adam had, on this matter, become as God. Thereafter, through the righteous exercise of agency, Adam could pursue a course that would eventually endow him with a fulness of the Father. ‘As to the fall,’ Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote, ‘ … Eve partook without full understanding; Adam partook knowing that unless he did so, he and Eve could not have children and fulfill the commandment they had received to multiply and replenish the earth.’ (New Witness, p. 86.)” (McConkie and Millet, Doctrinal Commentary, 3:311).