Tough Questions for Christians # 30: Adam vs. Jesus

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According the Christians, there is one action that is responsible for the damnation of all of humanity. And that's the sin, from Adam and Eve eating the fruit in the Garden.

They disobeyed a direct order from God, got themselves kicked out of paradise, caused the entire world to fall, caused animals to start eating each other, snakes to become venomous, and bacteria to start infecting humans. (Who knew fruit could be so powerful?)

Now, that action will get you sent to Hell. It's just gonna happen.

Sorry, you're born with an inherent sinful nature, you're gonna use it because you got it, and - well - that's what humans do. It's kinda like being born with legs and then being punished for walking.

That action - sinning, and causing humanity to be born with a sinful nature - it's gotcha.

Jesus came to solve that problem, apparently.

God decided that if he impregnated a woman with himself, and she gave birth to him, then he could have himself sacrificed to himself. Then he could use that sacrifice of himself, to make himself forgive you, because he punished himself instead. Got it?

OK.

Makes perfect sense, right?

OK.

Now here's the kicker. When it comes to Adam, you don't need to know about him. It's automatic, you've got that sinful nature, it's going to make you sin, there is nothing you can do to prevent that.

You don't need to believe that Adam existed, you don't need to believe that Eve existed, you don't need to believe in talking snakes, or intelligent fruit, in fact - you don't even need to know about the story. Just being born is enough to give you that inherent sinful nature, and that's enough to get you sent to Hell. Because "sin can't enter into the presence of God."

Now with God, in his wonderful wisdom of sacrificing himself to himself so he can forgive you for the sins that... yeah. You HAVE to believe a very specific story. If you don't know about Jesus, according to some denominations, you're damned. End of story, you can't make it to Heaven without him.

There's some denominations that make all sorts of loopholes for it so God doesn't sound quite so horrible. You can check out one of my other videos called "Never Heard of Jesus." I go into that topic quite a bit.

If you know about Jesus but you don't believe the story, well then - everyone is pretty much unanimous about that, you're gonna go to Hell.

If you believe in... er, if you know about Adam, but you don't believe the story, - well, you're STILL gonna go to Hell - because his action is STILL going to affect you and still gonna get you damned.

If you know about Jesus, but you don't believe in him, you're still going to go to Hell, because his action isn't going to do shit.

The ONLY way Jesus' sacrifice can effect you at all is if you know about it, and believe a VERY VERY specific story about it.

Now this raises a pretty serious question. You see, Adam was a finite human. Capable only of finite human actions. Jesus was an infinite God, capable of far more powerful - infinite - actions... or so one would assume.

So why is it that the actions from a finite human are more all-inclusive, and more completely encompassing, then the actions from an infinite God?

TOUGH QUESTION FOR CHRISTIANS # 30
WHY ARE THE ACTIONS OF A FINITE HUMAN (ADAM) MORE POWERFUL THAN THE ACTIONS OF AN INFINITE GOD?





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