What is "the fall" when I can't accept a historical Adam and Eve?

[gbrooks9 (George Brooks)]

@sue and Others:

Here is my most recent thread … to explain the purpose of the ATONEMENT …

Why Jesus? Adam Proved Sinfulness - He Didn't *Make* us Sinful

Some participants on this board cite Romans 5 as proof that there was an Adam who brought sin to all of Humanity - - if not to the whole Cosmos! Here are the relevant lines: Romans 5:11-14: And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imp…