Salvation, Part 1: What It Really Is and Why We Needed It
- Kaila Allen
- Sep 26
- 4 min read
Understanding Salvation
We throw the word salvation around so often in church culture that it can start to lose its weight. But if we peel back the layers and return to the beginning, which was the Garden of Eden, we see that salvation is not just about avoiding hell. It’s about remembering who we are, reclaiming our original design, and being restored to union with God.
Eden: Where We Remembered Our Divinity
In the Garden of Eden, humanity didn’t question their worth. Adam and Eve physically dwelled with God, walking with Him in the cool of the day (Genesis 3:8). There was no separation, no striving, no shame. They remembered their own divinity because they were made in God’s image (imago Dei—Genesis 1:27).
But into this perfect place came the serpent. Scripture first describes it simply as “more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made” (Genesis 3:1). Yet later, Revelation identifies this serpent as Satan himself: “that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray” (Revelation 12:9).
How did the serpent get in? He didn’t break into Eden as a conqueror. He was allowed in. God permitted his presence because love requires freedom. If Adam and Eve were never given the option to choose against God, their obedience would not be love, it would be programming. Satan had already fallen from heaven (Isaiah 14:12–15; Ezekiel 28:12–17) and been cast down to earth. Eden was on earth, and the test of free will was permitted there.
The serpent’s weapon was never force, only deception. His question was simple: “Did God really say…?” (Genesis 3:1). He planted doubt and offered temptation, but Adam and Eve had to choose. And in choosing the lie, they forgot what they already carried. They were already like God. They already bore His likeness. But in reaching for the fruit, they reached for what was already theirs, and in the process they traded unity for duality.
The Consequence of Eating the Fruit
The consequence was death (Genesis 2:17). Not just physical death, but the cycle of reincarnation, which forces souls to experience both good and evil in order to grasp wisdom through suffering, shame, and struggle. In order to understand all the knowledge of good and evil, you must come back time and time again to experience it. In some cases, you live evil lives, and in some you rise above and walk the Earth like Jesus did. You must not judge one another, but understand that at the core we are all the same: white, black, young, old, male, female, evil, good...none of us is better than the other. Humanity was thrust into Earth’s school of duality, and every child born of Adam and Eve carried that imprint. They were not “punished” as much as they were shifted into a new classroom: a place of polarity, where lessons are learned the hard way and the understanding of "unity" (oneness with each other and God) is fought for by integrating all of the separation lifetime after lifetime. And with that polarity came shame. Genesis 3:7 says, “Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked.” They saw themselves as separate, small, vulnerable. They forgot they were clothed in glory.
Sin: Science and Spirit Agree
What scripture calls “sin” is not just moral failure: it’s energetic misalignment.
Biblically: Sin means “to miss the mark." The mark is God’s frequency, His holiness.
Scientifically: At a quantum level, sin is low vibrational activity. Negative emotions (fear, rage, envy, lust) vibrate at a much lower frequency than love, joy, and peace. Neuroscience shows these states literally change brain chemistry and suppress higher brain function. Physics confirms that low vibration collapses coherence in the body’s energy field, meaning low vibrations cause your body to become dysfunctional over time.
When we live in sin, we cut ourselves off from the resonance of God, the highest frequency in existence (1 John 1:5, “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all”). It’s not that God abandons us; it’s that we step out of alignment, and like a radio out of tune, we lose connection.
Outsourcing Our Divinity
After the fall, communion with God was no longer effortless. People outsourced their connection through priests and sacrifices.
Animal Sacrifice: Leviticus is full of instructions for blood sacrifices to “cover” sin. These rituals were temporary energetic cleansings, reminders that sin had real cost, but never enough to permanently restore intimacy with God.
Priestly Mediation: Only priests could enter the Holy of Holies (Exodus 28). Prophets like Samuel or Elijah were exceptions because they were anointed vessels who carried God’s Spirit and spoke His words. Ordinary people could not imagine direct access because it was rare and seemed to only be for those God chose to appear to, such as Moses with the Burning Bush.
This was humanity’s way of coping with the veil, the imprint of sin on the consciousness, and the separation from God. We forgot our divinity and our rightful place as sons and daughters of God, so we trusted a chosen few to stand in the gap for us.
The Enemy’s Only Weapon: Deception
It’s important to see this clearly: Satan never had the authority to take our souls. He had (and still has) only one weapon: convincing us to choose separation ourselves. Just as in Eden, his whisper today is still: “You don’t have enough. You need to reach for what you already are.” And when we believe the lie, we agree to step into cycles of shame, sin, and low vibration. But the soul still belongs to God. Salvation was always God’s plan for us, not because the enemy “won,” but because God knew we would need a way home.
A Glimpse Ahead
And here is the hope tucked even into the tragedy of Eden: being made in God’s image means that there is a piece of Him within us that cannot be destroyed. The divine spark was never lost, it was only veiled, hidden from us, forgotten. This truth sets the stage for everything that comes after: Jesus, the cross, and the Holy Spirit. In the next post, we’ll expand on what it really means to carry God’s image, and how Christ restored our ability to live out that divinity in fullness.
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