🤔 If Eden was just the necessary prelude to enlightenment, then Christ’s entire mission makes no sense. Why would God become flesh, suffer, and die to reverse something that was actually good? The cross is either the redemption of something truly broken, or it’s cosmic theater.

Scripture doesn’t present the fall as graduation. It presents it as catastrophe requiring a Redeemer.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​