Adam invited sin into all men. This means that men became sinners because of Adam: not because of Yahweh. Yahweh made no such decree. He told Adam not to sin. Adam sinned. Consequences followed. Yahweh tried to figure out a way to relate to people who had found themselves in a state of sin.
But isn't that kind of like saying that YHWH didn't make the rules, just because it isn't explicitly in the bible? Why is it assumed that just because A&E sinned, that we are all wrought with sin? God created the situation, yes?
Genesis 15-17 writes:
15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
That tells me that god did institute the inherit sin, even though it was due to A&E eating some fruit.
Yahweh did indeed punish the descendants of Adam, but not with sin. That was Adam's doing alone.
What that amounts to, in my opinion, could equate to this: you place a bet with a bookie. You can't pay the bookie. The bookie now tortures your kids when you die
even though they had nothing to do with it.
Edited by hooah212002, : No reason given.
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