Welcome to part two with Dr. Barbara Gardner.

I don't think the fall caused Adam to think less of Eve.

If anything, the fall caused Adam to think more of Eve because God confirmed the choice

of Eve was critical.

The fall created put Adam and Eve into a position where they were mortal and where Satan could

tempt them and where they were using their agency between truth and error and good and bad.

And the fall made specifically forced mankind to be completely dependent upon Jesus Christ.

That's what the fall does.

So the fall puts us into a position of mortality.

Mankind is who has fallen.

It wasn't Eve that fell, right?

It wasn't Adam that fell.

Mankind has fallen and when we are obedient to the Lord and keep his commandments and we

use the atonement of Jesus Christ in our life, it brings us back up.

I don't believe that Adam and Eve exercised unrighteous dominion, but I do believe that

through time unrighteous dominion did creep in because that is Satan's tool.

Not just with women and men, but within cultures, within people, within anything regarding

the humankind.

Yeah, there is always going to be a tendency because of Satan's influence to have unrighteous

dominion.

Sister Jones talks about the roles of men and women and she says, you know, it's so

off when we talk about the role of women as this and role of men as this and she says

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