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From the Book "the Infinite Atonement" Tad R. Callister pag. 45
The accounts of the Garden in the canonized scriptures suggest that Eve did not receive her name until after she and Adam had partaken of the forbidden fruit. When Eve was first created, Adam decreed that "she shall be called woman" Genesis 2:23 Moses 3:23 Abraham 5:17. Any dialogue in the garden between Eve, and either God or Satan, conspicuously deletes any reference to the name of Eve. Instead, she is referred to as " the woman" or the wife of Adam. There is a single reference by Moses to the name of Eve, but not in the context of any actual dialogue. He was merely referring to the woman, whom with hindsight he knew to be Eve. After the transgression in the Garden, the Lord announced the manner in which Eve should conceive:"In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children" Genesis 3:16 Moses 4:22. Then, just as the future parents of all mortals were about to be expelled from their garden home, Adam called "his wife name Eve; because she was the mother of all living" Genesis 3:20 Moses 4:26. Moses revealed that this appellation was of the Lord's choosing, "For thus have I, the Lord God, called the first of all women, which are many" Moses 4:26.
The timing of Eve's "naming" is important because it seems to confirm that she could not become the mother of the human race until after the effects of the forbidden fruit coursed through her veins. This is consistent with other scriptural accounts. In other words, she was not called Eve until she was capable of being Eve (i.e., the mother of all living)
From the Book "new insights into the old testament" written from Allan K. Burgess pag 31
Because of limited perspective, some have felt that the flood was an act of cruelty. This could not be further from the truth. The Flood was an act of love. When we make a decision, we do so from the narrow perspective of the present. When God makes a decision, He considers what has happened in the past, what is happening in the present, and what is going to happen in the future. Our decisions usually revolve around us and the few people those have lived on the earth, those who now live here, and the unborn spirits that will live on the earth in the future. When God makes a decision, He considers all of His children. There are at least five groups of people that were affected by the flood, and all five groups benefit from it. The wicked adults were stopped from their continuous downhill slide into filthiness. Between the time of His death and that of His resurrection, the Savior visited the spirit world and established a program to teach these very people the Gospel. The young children of these wicked people were taken out of their destructive environment, and, as with all children who die before the age of accountability, they become heirs to the celestial kingdom and will receive every blessing that God has to give. Those people who were righteous between the times of Enoch and Noah were translated and lifted up to join the city of Enoch. Therefore, no righteous people were destroyed in the flood (See Moses 7:27) The Flood brought a stop to the persecution that Noah and his family had been subjected to; they were then able to start a new society where the Spirit of God was present. Last of all, the unborn spirits would now be born into a world where they have a better chance of accepting the Gospel and fulfilling the purpose of earth life.
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