3. The Fall.--When Adam and Eve were placed in the garden of Eden, there were certain laws given them by their Creator, the penalty of violating which was death and banishment from the presence of God. They transgressed the laws and became subject to the penalty. Nor was that all; but by their transgression, having become mortal, they bequeathed that mortality to their offspring; and thus death passed upon all mankind, and that too, through no act or fault of theirs. Their agency was not exercised in the matter, and therefore justice would require that they should receive a full and complete {84} redemption from the evil which overtakes them through the actions of others over which they had no control. 4. General Salvation.--Such a redemption was wrought out through the atonement of Jesus Christ, and that its benefits are to be universal, so far as redeeming mankind for the consequences of Adam's transgression is concerned, is evident from the fact, _First_, That the resurrection from the dead is universal, as the scriptures witness: And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.[103] For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself. * * * Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.[104] Or, as the last two clauses were given to the Prophet Joseph Smith by inspiration: They who have done good in the resurrection of the just, and they who have done evil in the resurrection of the unjust.[105] After giving a full account of the resurrection of the righteous and their reign upon the earth for a thousand years, the writer of the Apocalypse [A-poc-a-lypse] says: And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. * * * And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to his works.[106] _Second_, The scriptures plainly declare that the redemption {85} of men from the consequences of Adam's transgression shall be universal: Therefore as by the offense of one [Adam] judgment came upon _all men_ to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came _upon all men_ to the justification of life.[107]