I have also received a blessing by reading your book, Mike.

Is the atonement LEGAL? NO. The law can not be changed. The law can NOT release the sinner from the consequences of his transgression. There is not a legal solution to the problem. A real solution must be found. . . The only solution is that man must be born again. The stain of sin must be removed. This is healing, not legal. A legal declaration makes no change in man. A restoration of the human character by the divine is the only solution. Just God is just and justifier. Justification is setting right. This is not a legal solution, it is a real solution.

The regeneration can only be done by Christ. It took His death on the cross to achieve this.

The law demands death for sin. God cannot disregard the requirements of law and justice. Jesus paid our sin debt of death. His life and death satisfies law and justice. What makes this part of salvation legal is all the legalese - 1) law, 2) justice, 3) crime, 4) evidence, 5) eye witnesses, 6) charges, 7) accusations, 8)confession, 9) conviction, 10) guilt, 11) condemnation, 12) judgment, 13) sentencing, 14) mediation, 15) substitution, 16) death, 17) grace, 18) mercy, 19) pardon, 20) restoration. It's difficult to conclude this part of salvation is not a legal matter.

Did Enoch need Christ's death on the cross in order to be regenerated?

But before the crown must come the cross. Not the inauguration of Christ as king, but the decease to be accomplished at Jerusalem, is the subject of their conference with Jesus. Bearing the weakness of humanity, and burdened with its sorrow and sin, Jesus walked alone in the midst of men. As the darkness of the coming trial pressed upon Him, He was in loneliness of spirit, in a world that knew Him not. Even His loved disciples, absorbed in their own doubt and sorrow and ambitious hopes, had not comprehended the mystery of His mission. He had dwelt amid the love and fellowship of heaven; but in the world that He had created, He was in solitude. Now heaven had sent its messengers to Jesus; not angels, but men who had endured suffering and sorrow, and who could sympathize with the Saviour in the trial of His earthly life. Moses and Elijah had been colaborers with Christ. They had shared His longing for the salvation of men. Moses had pleaded for Israel: "Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written." Exodus 32:32. Elijah had known loneliness of spirit, as for three years and a half of famine he had borne the burden of the nation's hatred and its woe. Alone he had stood for God upon Mount Carmel. Alone he had fled to the desert in anguish and despair. These men, chosen above every angel around the throne, had come to commune with Jesus concerning the scenes of His suffering, and to comfort Him with the assurance of the sympathy of heaven. The hope of the world, the salvation of every human being, was the burden of their interview. {DA 422.2}

This hope of redemption through the advent of the Son of God as Saviour and King, has never become extinct in the hearts of men. From the beginning there have been some whose faith has reached out beyond the shadows of the present to the realities of the future. Adam, Seth, Enoch, Methuselah, Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob -- through these and other worthies the Lord has preserved the precious revealings of His will. And it was thus that to the children of Israel, the chosen people through whom was to be given to the world the promised Messiah, God imparted a knowledge of the requirements of His law, and of the salvation to be accomplished through the atoning sacrifice of His beloved Son. {PK 682.2}

M: The law demands death for sin. God cannot disregard the requirements of law and justice. Jesus paid our sin debt of death. His life and death satisfies law and justice. What makes this part of salvation legal is all the legalese - 1) law, 2) justice, 3) crime, 4) evidence, 5) eye witnesses, 6) charges, 7) accusations, 8)confession, 9) conviction, 10) guilt, 11) condemnation, 12) judgment, 13) sentencing, 14) mediation, 15) substitution, 16) death, 17) grace, 18) mercy, 19) pardon, 20) restoration. It's difficult to conclude this part of salvation is not a legal matter.

A: Is God's Law - Proscriptive, Prescriptive, or Descriptive? Take #1 - LAW. The laws of Nature are God's Laws, are they not? Is Gravity legal? Can you violate gravity? IF you fall off a high cliff, is the punishment that you sure will sustain, intrinsic or imposed? Who created God's Law? If the Law demands the death of the sinner, and it does, is the penalty intrinsic or imposed? Does God have to step in when the law is broken, and execute judgment?

Jesus was earning the right to become the advocate of men in the Father's presence. {DA 744.3}

Christ bore all this suffering in order to obtain the right to confer eternal righteousness upon as many as would believe on Him. {TDG 216.4}

Jesus Christ offered his life as a ransom for the lost, as the price by which he might purchase the right to re-create the sinner, and form again the image of God in the soul. {ST, December 12, 1895 par. 9}

He is invested with the right to give immortality. {DA 786.4}

Death entered the world because of transgression. But Christ gave His life that man should have another trial. He did not die on the cross to abolish the law of God, but to secure for man a second probation. He did not die to make sin an immortal attribute; He died to secure the right to destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. {FLB 179.5}

What right had Christ to take the captives out of the enemy's hands?--The right of having made a sacrifice that satisfies the principles of justice by which the kingdom of heaven is governed. He came to this earth as the Redeemer of the lost race, to conquer the wily foe, and, by His steadfast allegiance to right, to save all who accept Him as their Saviour. On the cross of Calvary He paid the redemption price of the race. And thus He gained the right to take the captives from the grasp of the great deceiver, who, by a lie, framed against the government of God, caused the fall of man, and thus forfeited all claim to be called a loyal subject of God's glorious everlasting kingdom. {1SM 309.4}

On the cross of Calvary He paid the redemption price of the race. And thus He gained the right to rescue the captives from the grasp of the great deceiver, who by a lie framed against the government of God, caused the fall of man, and who thus forfeited all claim to be called a loyal subject of God's kingdom. {7ABC 468.5}

Satan refused to let his captives go. He held them as his subjects because of their belief of his lie. He had thus become their jailor. But he had no right to demand that a price be paid for them; because he had not obtained possession of them by lawful conquest, but under false pretense. {7ABC 468.6}

God, being the creditor, had a right to make any provision for the redemption of human beings. Justice demanded that a certain price be paid. The Son of God was the only One who could pay this price. He volunteered to come to this earth and pass over the ground where Adam fell. He came as the redeemer of the lost race, to conquer the wily foe, and by His steadfast allegiance to right, to save all who should accept Him as their Saviour. {7ABC 468.7}

After the fall, it had been impossible for man with his sinful nature to render obedience to the law of God, had not Christ, by the offer of his own life, purchased the right to lift up the race where they could once more work in harmony with its requirements. {RH, September 27, 1881 par. 11}

I'm not sure what you are getting at with this particular question, but it brings up a side question that is just as relevant to this thread, and that is, "Did Enoch need Christ's death on the cross in order to be saved?"

The answer to that is "Yes."