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-The Book of Mormon teaches us that Adam and Eve were innocent, and as long as they were in the
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- Garden, “they would have no children” (2 Nephi 2:23). This is also strengthened in the Bible. Children
- are not even mentioned until after the fall (see also Gen. 3:16).
-	Irenaeus said that both Adam and Eve “had no understanding of the procreation of children”
- (Irenaeus, Against Heresies 22, Ante-Nicene Fathers 1:455) He also mentions that Eve was a virgin in
- the garden 3 different times.
-	He goes on to say that after the fall, Adam “had lost his natural disposition and child-like mind”
- (Against Heresies 22, Ante-Nicene Fathers 1:457)