Opposition Opposition by Kay P. Edwards Opposition and agency are eternal and interrelated principles in the theology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Agency is man's innate power to choose between alternative commitments and finally between whole ways of life. Opposition is the framework within which these choices and their consequences are possible. In his account of the Fall of Adam , Lehi teaches that the philosophy of opposites is at the heart of the plan of redemption.
Scripture relates the principle of opposition to crucial states of human experience.
Among them are life and death, knowledge and ignorance, light and darkness, growth and atrophy. They also became subject to spiritual death, which means spiritual separation from God because of sin. Such knowledge is participative. Life is a predicament in which there are real risks, real gains, real losses. From such tests emerge responsibility, judgment, and soul growth.