From Adam to Christ - All Humanity and Every Human: My Inquiry to Fr. John Behr. Hi Fr. John, At a recent Open Table Conference you pointed out how simple everything becomes once we unlearn (scrape away) the many theological accretions that purport to mediate the significance of the work of Christ to our lives, including mechanical atonement theories that are required to make sense of what “Christ died for you” means if we’re all still going to die. The simplicity you mention comes, in part, from seeing reality far more directly. I want to run this by you to be sure I am hearing what you are saying (to which I would bet ...