Enter Irenaeus (125-202 AD) who saw that Genesis 2.4-on actually presented a different model for the creation of humans.  The anima is breathed into the caro by God.  The spiritual principle is “inspiration”

With this discovery, he could argue against many pagan syncretic symbolic orders – so called “heresies” – especially those who configured Adam as a gnostic angelic emanation or those who saw Adam as a piece of clay imprisoning a soul.

What about the Story of the Fall?  Adam and Eve’s disobedience showed a lack of awareness and that lack of awareness created a lack of appreciation for their circumstances.

Their fortune was to be hanging out with God in Paradise.  Their fate was what – in the USA – we could call “teen spirit”.  The modern movie plot would be something like this: Two teenagers end up sharing a house with the smartest, wisest, and most powerful person on Earth.  Then they do the one thing that he told them not to.  They have to leave.  He drops them off in east L.A.

The solution to the Fall is to gain the awareness and appreciation that comes from Jesus the Christ.  Grace is needed to do this.  Grace increases awareness and appreciation.  That is why the Sacraments make sense.  We will be judged on our awareness and appreciation.   What is the end of our awareness and appreciation?  Jesus is the Alpha and Omega.  All goodness passes through Him.

When you die, your anima is not washed of memories then recycled, it is judged then given a new caro.

No doubt, to pagans, that sounded completely nonsensical.  It did not belong to their symbolic orders.