Story By Jessica Mouser<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A post from an X account explaining that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) celebrates\u00a0Eve\u2019s decision\u00a0to eat from the\u00a0Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil\u00a0has 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\u2019s point of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn the LDS Church, we do not see Eve eating the forbidden fruit as a mistake or even a sin,\u201d said a Jan. 27 post from the account Dem Saints. \u201cTo 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIn the LDS Church, we do not see Eve eating the forbidden fruit as a mistake or even a sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014 Dem Saints (@LDS_Dems)\u00a0January 27, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
After the post went viral, the\u00a0account posted\u00a0on Jan. 29, \u201cI created a simple one-tweet summary of last week\u2019s Sunday School lesson and just Eve-pilled more than a million people. Sometimes Twitter is pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LDS Church\u2019s View of Eve Draws Criticism<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Dem Saints\u2019\u00a0profile\u00a0says, \u201cAround these parts we love the LDS Church, sustain the Prophet and vote for the Democrats. You should too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The account supported its initial post about Eve with quotes from prominent LDS Church leaders. For example,\u00a0Elder Dallin H. Oaks, who became president and prophet of the LDS Church in 2025, said, \u201cIt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oaks\u2019 statement is on the\u00a0LDS Church\u2019s official website\u00a0and is from a talk Oaks gave at the church\u2019s October 1993 General Conference while he was serving in the\u00a0Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the second-highest leadership body of the LDS Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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, \u201cWe and all mankind are forever blessed because of Eve\u2019s great courage and wisdom. By partaking of the fruit first, she did what needed to be done.\u201d\u00a0A post from an X account explaining that the LDS Church celebrates Eve’s decision to eat the forbidden fruit has gone viral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both Oaks and Nelson quoted\u00a02 Nephi 2:25, a passage in the Book of Mormon, which says, \u201cAdam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0Nicene Creed\u2019s understanding of Christ\u2019s divine nature, and teach that faithful believers may ultimately become divine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to\u00a0LDS 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\u2019s plan for his children.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other notable differences include that the LDS Church does not believe in the doctrine of\u00a0original sin. In the\u00a0articles of faith\u00a0on the LDS website, No. 2 says, \u201cWe believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam\u2019s transgression.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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, \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dem Saints linked to a\u00a0lesson on the LDS website\u00a0that included teaching on why the Fall was beneficial. The page says, \u201cThe Book of Mormon prophet Lehi explained the significance of the Fall. Study\u00a02 Nephi 2:22\u201325, looking for why the Fall was a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The many reactions to the post on Eve included people who\u00a0questioned\u00a0whether Dem Saints was relating\u00a0the actual views\u00a0of the LDS Church, as well as those who expressed that they cannot understand why anyone would believe otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOne of the biggest things to me is that I accepted the plan to come here,\u201d one user told Dem Saints. \u201cBeing forced into a fallen world where I and those I love might burn forever\u2026\u2026I\u2019d prefer to be erased out of existence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The user was responding to another\u00a0Dem Saints post\u00a0that said, \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI don\u2019t believe in a God who accidentally let Eve eat the fruit, punished all of humanity for her sin and sent most to hell,\u201d the account added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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,\u00a0said, \u201cSatanic inspiration confirmed, then.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJust maybe a minor theological difference,\u201d\u00a0commented\u00a0worship activist\u00a0Sean Feucht.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Multiple people\u00a0connected the LDS view with that put forward by the antagonist (the Un-man) of C.S. Lewis\u2019 book, \u201cPerelandra.\u201d The novel is the second in Lewis\u2019 space trilogy and imagines a scenario on Venus where the Queen of that Eden-like planet faces a temptation similar to that of Eve.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is almost exactly the argument made by the Un-man in Perelandra,\u201d\u00a0said one person\u00a0responding to Dem Saints\u2019 original post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf you read this out loud, you can\u2019t get the full sense of it unless you use the original accent, but you only get when speaking with a forked tongue,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Griffin Gulledge, pastor of Fayetteville First Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jennifer Buck, wife of Pastor\u00a0Tom Buck\u00a0of First Baptist Church of Lindale, Texas,\u00a0said, \u201cSo -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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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