Story By Jessica Mouser
A post from an X account explaining that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) celebrates Eve’s decision to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil has gone viral, with 1.9 million views as of this writing. The post has drawn strong criticism from some Christians, who say it represents Satan’s point of view.
“In the LDS Church, we do not see Eve eating the forbidden fruit as a mistake or even a sin,” said a Jan. 27 post from the account Dem Saints. “To the contrary, we celebrate her courage and wisdom to partake of the fruit, transgress the bounds of Eden and become all that her Heavenly Father wanted her to be.”
In the LDS Church, we do not see Eve eating the forbidden fruit as a mistake or even a sin.
To the contrary, we celebrate her courage and wisdom to partake of the fruit, transgress the bounds of Eden and become all that her Heavenly Father wanted her to be.
— Dem Saints (@LDS_Dems) January 27, 2026
After the post went viral, the account posted on Jan. 29, “I created a simple one-tweet summary of last week’s Sunday School lesson and just Eve-pilled more than a million people. Sometimes Twitter is pretty cool.”
LDS Church’s View of Eve Draws Criticism
Dem Saints’ profile says, “Around these parts we love the LDS Church, sustain the Prophet and vote for the Democrats. You should too.”
The account supported its initial post about Eve with quotes from prominent LDS Church leaders. For example, Elder Dallin H. Oaks, who became president and prophet of the LDS Church in 2025, said, “It was Eve who first transgressed the limits of Eden in order to initiate the conditions of mortality. Her act, whatever its nature, was formally a transgression but eternally a glorious necessity to open the doorway toward eternal life.”
Oaks’ statement is on the LDS Church’s official website and is from a talk Oaks gave at the church’s October 1993 General Conference while he was serving in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the second-highest leadership body of the LDS Church.
Dem Saints also posted a quote from former LDS President Russell M. Nelson (who passed away in 2025), who, like Oaks, made his statement during the October 1993 General Conference while he was serving in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Nelson said, “We and all mankind are forever blessed because of Eve’s great courage and wisdom. By partaking of the fruit first, she did what needed to be done.” A post from an X account explaining that the LDS Church celebrates Eve’s decision to eat the forbidden fruit has gone viral.
Both Oaks and Nelson quoted 2 Nephi 2:25, a passage in the Book of Mormon, which says, “Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.”
Orthodox Christians do not recognize the LDS Church as a Christian denomination because its theology diverges from historic Christian doctrine. For example, LDS teachings describe the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as distinct beings rather than one God in three persons, reject the Nicene Creed’s understanding of Christ’s divine nature, and teach that faithful believers may ultimately become divine.
According to LDS teaching, God is the Father of spirits, including Jesus and Lucifer, and all humans lived with God as spirit children before coming to earth. Earthly life is a next stage in God’s plan for his children.
Other notable differences include that the LDS Church does not believe in the doctrine of original sin. In the articles of faith on the LDS website, No. 2 says, “We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression.”
The LDS church also sees the Bible as inspired but not as inerrant, while the Book of Mormon is viewed as authoritative Scripture. Article 8 says, “We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.”
Dem Saints linked to a lesson on the LDS website that included teaching on why the Fall was beneficial. The page says, “The Book of Mormon prophet Lehi explained the significance of the Fall. Study 2 Nephi 2:22–25, looking for why the Fall was a good thing.”
The many reactions to the post on Eve included people who questioned whether Dem Saints was relating the actual views of the LDS Church, as well as those who expressed that they cannot understand why anyone would believe otherwise.
“One of the biggest things to me is that I accepted the plan to come here,” one user told Dem Saints. “Being forced into a fallen world where I and those I love might burn forever……I’d prefer to be erased out of existence.”
The user was responding to another Dem Saints post that said, “I believe in a God who brought me to this world to gain a body and experience and because of Christ, almost all of humanity will achieve an exalted state.”
“I don’t believe in a God who accidentally let Eve eat the fruit, punished all of humanity for her sin and sent most to hell,” the account added.
Numerous Christians pushed back on the LDS view of Eve. Colin J. Smothers, pastor of First Baptist Church of Maize, Kansas, and executive director of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, said, “Satanic inspiration confirmed, then.”
“Just maybe a minor theological difference,” commented worship activist Sean Feucht.
Multiple people connected the LDS view with that put forward by the antagonist (the Un-man) of C.S. Lewis’ book, “Perelandra.” The novel is the second in Lewis’ space trilogy and imagines a scenario on Venus where the Queen of that Eden-like planet faces a temptation similar to that of Eve.
“This is almost exactly the argument made by the Un-man in Perelandra,” said one person responding to Dem Saints’ original post.
“If you read this out loud, you can’t get the full sense of it unless you use the original accent, but you only get when speaking with a forked tongue,” said Griffin Gulledge, pastor of Fayetteville First Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Georgia.
Jennifer Buck, wife of Pastor Tom Buck of First Baptist Church of Lindale, Texas, said, “So -sin/destruction/death is superior to -perfection/no pain/no death? Dang. She had eternal life. She threw it away by her actions. Sin does distort the mind.”
