I'll answer using your words for clarity
1. yes
2. The fall from grace occurred at a time that wasn't observably recorded. When humanity ate the magic fruit they weren't supposed to in the Garden of Eden, it was a phrase applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance (metaphor).
3. disagree
4. and 5 then don't follow logically
6- why would a real blood sacrifice be needed for a metaphor? Because whatever the cause (or literal details) of human's rejection of God and willfullness (effect of the metaphorical event) that is evidenced today would require atonement.
1. yes
2. The fall from grace occurred at a time that wasn't observably recorded. When humanity ate the magic fruit they weren't supposed to in the Garden of Eden, it was a phrase applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance (metaphor).
3. disagree
4. and 5 then don't follow logically
6- why would a real blood sacrifice be needed for a metaphor? Because whatever the cause (or literal details) of human's rejection of God and willfullness (effect of the metaphorical event) that is evidenced today would require atonement.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
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