The Fall doesn't make complete sense to me, either the LDS conception or the classical Christian one. As I've said before, I think much of theology is as bogus as it is fun. But I stumbled upon this and thought it was interesting cause I didn't know there were others who believed as we did:
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Some interpreters have suggested quite a different approach to this text, seeing it in terms of a “fall upward,” which the becoming like God theme might suggest. Most have interpreted this “fall” negatively. Human beings transgress the limits of creatureliness and assume godlike powers for themselves; yet, this assumes a more basic problem, namely mistrust. Others have taken theme in a positive direction (at least since Irenaeus in the second century). In this view, human beings move out from under the parental hand of God, a necessary move for the child on the way to true maturity.
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Bruce C. Birch et al,
A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament. Nashville: Abingdon, 54.