The Six-Movement FEC Map

A map of the proposal

This map is not one ordinary timeline. It shows the order of the FEC proposal while recognizing that the original creation and the fallen creation have different histories.

1. Original Creation

God creates the heavens, the earth, living things, Adam, and Eve. This creation is genuinely “very good.” The Garden of Eden, the Tree of Life, and direct communion with God belong to this original creation.

2. The Fall

Adam and Eve choose against God. Their decision affects more than their private moral condition. It brings about a fallen condition for humanity and creation.

3. Fallen Natural History

The fallen creation has its own complete natural history. From inside that history, the universe begins with the Big Bang and develops across billions of years. Galaxies form, the earth becomes ancient, life develops, species evolve and become extinct, and biologically human populations appear. This is the history available to scientific investigation.

The Fall is causally responsible for this order, but it is not an event located at the beginning of the fallen world’s scientific timeline.

4. Adam and Eve Enter Fallen History

Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden and enter the fallen creation. They do not experience the billions of years within its history. From their point of view, the transition follows the Fall directly.

They enter a world that is already old and that has always been fallen from within its own history.

5. Christ Enters Fallen History

God enters the fallen order in Jesus Christ. The Christian answer to the Fall is therefore not limited to an explanation of origins. Christ enters the same world of sin, suffering, and death, and his resurrection begins the defeat of that fallen condition.

The biblical connection between Adam and Christ remains central. Adam’s decision concerns the Fall; Christ’s work concerns redemption and renewed humanity.

6. New Creation

The Christian story ends with resurrection and new creation. Creation is freed from decay, death is defeated, and communion with God is restored.

FEC remains incomplete if it ends with an account of the fallen world. The original good creation, the Fall, Christ, and the new creation belong to one theological story.

Reading the map correctly

Movements one and two occur in the original creation. Movement three describes the internal history of the fallen creation. Movement four is the point at which Adam and Eve enter that history. Movements five and six show the Christian response to the Fall and the final direction of creation.

The map distinguishes causal order from chronology. It does not claim that Adam and Eve lived billions of years ago, nor that the Fall appears as a scientifically measurable event near the Big Bang.