Even within our own biblical tradition, what tempted Adam and Eve? Yes, the serpent, but it was also the promised necessity of the fall. The serpent said unto the woman: “Ye shall not surely die; For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Moses 4:10–11, emphasis added). After partaking of the fruit the scripture states, “And the eyes of them both were opened” (Moses 4:13, emphasis added). After learning there would be a redemption possible, Adam said, “Blessed be the name of God, for because of my transgression my eyes are opened, and in this life I shall have joy, and again in the flesh I shall see God” and Eve said, “Were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient” (Moses 5:10–11, emphasis added). 

In our living state, the scriptures tell us that we need to have an “eye single to the glory of God” (D&C 4) and to have an “eye of faith” (Ether 12). When we get in trouble spiritually it is when “ye have closed your eyes, and ye have rejected the prophets …” (2 Nephi 27).