Elder Hafen on Adam and Eve

I've been reading Elder Bruce C. Hafen's book Covenant Hearts: Marriage and the Joy of Human Love. Here is a passage about Adam and Eve that I liked.

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Adam and Eve's story sets the pattern for our own lives. Their experience is the primal story about how the great "plan of hapiness" (Alma 42:16) actually works--and the story is about a married couple. The story has six archetypal elements.

• Living before mortal birth with our Mother and our Father, God of the Universe.
  
  
• Making choices, learning, hopefully marrying and becoming parents ourselves.
  
  
• Contending against the opposition of an Enemy who keeps trying to destroy God's plan and our happiness.
  
  
• Overcoming the Enemy through a Redeemer whose sacrifice, together with our efforts, allows us to go home.
  
  
• Returning home, mature and married, there to remain with our eternal Parents and be like them, like God.

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It seems to me that the story of Adam and Eve is much more about these archetypal elements than about details of creation.