The LDS view of the role of “our Glorious mother, Eve” (D&C 138:39), is strongly opposite to the beliefs of most of the Christian world. We are considerably more optimistic because we understand that Adam and Eve went into the Garden to fall. We understand that the Fall was part of the foreordained Great Plan of the Eternal God (GPEG) (Alma 34:9) devised in the great council in heaven in which we as spirits participated and God the Father and his son presided. Joseph Fielding Smith said:
