What is the Fruit which Adam and Eve Partook of in Eden?
There were two focal point trees in the Garden of Eden, the Tree of Life, and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The trees are figures, the tree of life referring to the Lord and his atonement, and the tree of knowledge to mortality and all that pertains to it.* To eat of the fruit of the tree of life simply means that those who partake are receiving the blessings of the atonement. To partake of the mortality tree means that one has chosen to enter mortality and participate in the probationary experience. This is not a fruit such as an apple, pomegranate, fig, pear or other vegetation. The fruit is the reward that flows from the choice made. It was significant enough to cause death to come upon all life, including plants and animal. It also caused the earth to fall from its orbit about Kolob to its orbit around the sun. Eating an apple cannot cause this to happen. The idea that Adam and Eve ate some fruit that changed their chemistry and that they then had to go about the garden giving portions of it to every animal and insect so they would fall too is not true. *(See A New Witness for the Articles of Faith, p.86)