A great council in heaven was once convened, in which it seems that all of us participated. There our Heavenly Father announced His plan. The enabling essence of the plan is the atonement of Jesus Christ. As it is central to the plan, we should try to comprehend the meaning of the Atonement. Before we can understand it, though, we must understand the fall of Adam. And before we can fully appreciate the Fall, we must first comprehend the Creation. These three events--the Creation, the Fall, and the Atonement--are three preeminent pillars of God's plan, and they are doctrinally interrelated.