The Fall

There was no literal "Fall." There was never an Adam and Eve. They are mythological prototypes for who each one of us is. The sinfulness of Man is built into Mankind by the fact that we are animals living in the grip of Time. That, however, is our nature. That nature was created by God. It's a "design flaw." (That'll get Gary's engine started.) The "Fall" is this: that every single one of us ignores the call of God to forget about that, to stop being just an animal, and to stop worrying about Time. But the Eve in you says, "I can understand this and get past it." And the Adam in you says, "I can overcome and control this." And both of you are wrong.

That is the reason for Jesus' sacrifice. Set up from the Beginning. God knew the flaw and Jesus was the answer, the retrofit.

Um, so that begs the question, What is necessary for the salvation of the individual? Nothing? Since Jesus "fixes" it all?

This is where my speculative, uneducated musings end. I don't know.

Gary?