The old rhyme is wrong. In "Adam's fall," we did NOT "sin all."

Once upon a time, there was a homeless rabbi, born an illegal immigrant, who preached love, compassion, forgiveness, fairness, and inclusiveness. (Yes: Jesus was “woke.") This long-haired Jew was executed for sedition against the Roman Empire. In the decades that followed, his followers were faced with a difficult question: WHY should I believe the teachings of a homeless rabbi who was executed for a serious crime by one of the most torturous means there ever was?

Paul of Tarsus invented the answer: the homeless Jew was really God in a man-suit. Paul cobbled together Osiris (Egypt), Dionysius (Greece), Mithra (Persia), and Tammuz (Israel/Judea) — all of them gods who were raised from the dead, usually by their goddess-consort, and who were worshiped by or familiar to Paul's first-century audiences.

According to most Christian denominations and cults, God deliberately put an “attractive nuisance” into the Garden of Bliss (Hebrew word: Eden). In Genesis 2:17, God told the first lie: he told “ha'adam,” the first human being, that it would die “on the same day” it ate from the attractive nuisance. (Which was silly; since death hadn't been invented yet, how would ha'adam know what “die" meant?)

When the newborns "fell from grace" because of God's trick, God condemned the first woman to labor pains; according to most Christian cults gave the man dominion over the woman; and gave both of them nice God-sewn leather jackets.

(The second creation myth is what's called an etiological myth, evolved to explain why labor pains hurt so much.)

According to the “fallen world theory,” sin, evil, and death are all humanity's fault — specifically all Woman's fault, for daring to have the first theological conversation. As if God had baked a “very good" apple pie and set it to cool, and all by itself the pie transformed itself into cow manure.

The only possible way for God to respond to the problem that God had created in the first place was to put on a man-suit. Let me repeat: the “only” way for God to propitiate God's anger over the outcome of God's plan in the Garden of Bliss was for God to put on a man-suit and offer himself to himself as a sacrifice to himself in expiation for humanity's “crime” of wanting to be more like God.

Can you hear how silly the “fallen world explanation" sounds to non-believers?