be replaced or erased. It is permanent and inescapable in man. This is why hell is a possibility for man. For man to deny his nature and to seek a nature apart from or in defiance of God is to sentence himself to so radical a frustration and perdition that his life is turned into a denial of both existence and essence. In speaking of the permanent in man, we must thus avoid the second myth about the nature of man, namely, that which sees him only in terms of the fall. The fall of man is an historical