If I may be so bold, I'd like to rpopose an answer to the original question in this thread. I know people tend to drift off topic, but I like this question and would like to explain what I believe. I know it will not be shared by most because of a seemingly prevalent love of attacking everything that other people think; but I submit my feelings.
1) Adam didn't sin. A sin is to know the difference between right and wrong and to act contrary to that knowledge. Is smoking or having pre-marital sex a sin if you don't know that it's wrong? No, of course not. Adam didn't know right from wrong until after he ate the fruit. What he did was transgress, not sin. Transgress is to break some decree that has been made, intrinsically immoral or not. eating fruit is not inherently evil, but God said that in this instance he shouldn't do it. That's a decree, not a moral law.
2) Blood entered into Adam's body, and he became mortal. Blood is what brings us life, albeit mortal. Search the Bible for every mention of the phrases "flesh and blood," and "flesh and bones." "Flesh and bones" are always used in conjunction with a celestial body. Christ's resurrected body is referred to as having "flesh and bones." Adam refers to his wife as "flesh of my flesh, bone of my bones." Regular human beings are always described as having "flesh and blood." Mortal life is found in our blood. Immortal life is when our veins flow with the Spirit. "Quickened by the Spirit" is the phrase the scriptures use. Adam fell from immortality (temporarily) and blood entered into his veins. Death was inherited with this condition.
3) His eyes were opened to the difference between good and evil. I like to call this the light of Christ. Think of it as your conscious. An inherent knowledge of the difference of good and evil.
4) He could experience joy. Without experiencing pain, no one can experience joy. Both terms are relative, and do not exist independent of the other. There must be an opposition in all things. If this were not so the plans of God would have been ruined. Adam did not foil God's plan. He brought it into play. All would be a compound in one if pain and death were never experienced. I know joy because I have known pain. Living forever in the Garden of Eden is not a joyful existence, it is an existence of jejune monotony. Overcoming trials and tribulations is what helps us grow so that the blood of Christ can make us perfect.
5) He could have children. Adam was given two comandments in the Garden of Eden. First, reproduce. Second, don't eat the fruit. He couldn't obey both. He could not know his wife while they lived in innocence in the Garden of Eden. He had to choose between the two, and he chose the more important one. If we look at both commandments we see that one was not a law, but a decree. It was not intrinsically evil, and it was a prohibition. The other was a law. We are commanded to have children, and it is intrinsically good. Breaking this commandment is not a sin of CO-mission, but of O-mission. They are two completely different commandments, and they reveal the foresight and organization of the plan of salvation. God could not be the producer of evil, but without evil man could never grow to be more like Him, so he gave us free will. With free will we are responsible for our actions. Lucifer originally wasn't evil, but he exercised his free will and rebelled against God; and thus evil is brought into existence. Now it needs to be introduced to man. Adam had free will, and he exercised it to bring evil into this world, thereby fulfilling the plan that God createed before the world was and giving us the opportunity to overcome evil that we might be more like God.
