ABSTRACT
The so-called scheme of salvation, which forms the centre of Christian theology and represents the motive power of Christian life and faith, consists of a drama which began with Adam and ended with Jesus Christ. In utilizing the Biblical story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden for the purpose of a scheme of salvation, Paul committed a gross perversion of the truth of every man’s original state of innocence and subsequent weakness and tendency to sin. The fall of man, which necessitated the scheme of salvation, is a doctrine which has always been regarded as one of the premises which go conclusively to prove the truth of Christianity. A nobler view of Christianity and of human nature is the attempt to identify Christianity with the highest form of civilization by claiming European culture as a product of the religion of Christ.
