When Jesus gave the divine fiat in the Garden (very significant that it was in a Garden) of, “Not my will but thine be done,” and then lived it through, the Fall was reversed.

I don’t even see the Fall through the same crime and punishment lenses I used to. More like Adam and Eve already knew pure Good. God gave them everything including face to face communion with Himself. But, they chose to add knowledge of evil through disobedience. God had warned them that knowledge included pain, suffering and death. But, they chose it anyway. I don’t see God adding those after the fact like a harsh judge, but warning in advance as a loving parent.

Then, like the grieving Father of the prodigal (and the self righteous brother), God makes all the moves, against all social rules and understanding to fix it by living amidst us in the middle of all the suffering we chose and choosing the opposite to return us to the possibility of pure good and joy by absolute surrender to the will of the Father.

There is also something I still ponder. How different is the statement, “Jesus had authority over His own life,” from “I AM The Life?”
peace