Salvation in Christianity - Wikipedia
Christian tradition has explained sin as a fundamental aspect of human existence, brought about by original sin—also called ancestral sin,[d] the fall of man stemming from Adam's rebellion in Eden by eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.[7] Paul espouses it in Romans 5:12–19, and Augustine of Hippo popularized it in the West, developing it into a notion of "hereditary sin," arguing that God holds all the descendants of Adam and Eve accountable for Adam's sin of rebellion, and as such all people deserve God's wrath and condemnation—apart from any actual sins they personally commit.[8]
I think of it this way -
the children of nobility are nobility and have a share of the inheritance
the children of slaves are slaves
rather than 'holding all the decendants of Adam and Eve accountable"
I think it was more that they sold themselves from the nobility of God's family into the slavery of sin. Signed away the deed
by the act of rebellion in the Garden
God isn't out to dmn everyone
He just wants us back
Christ's sacrifice is a demonstration of how much he wants us back.
Christ's crucifixion is a demonstration of how much we need to go back and what we have in us if we don't. Because apart from God, there really isn't
any difference between my nature and the nature of the ones calling for the death of a good man. We love good men. When they are convenient. But we tend to get rid of inconvenient things anytime we have the power to, sometimes in very ugly ways. And God tends to be VERY inconvenient to human nature.
Christ's resurrection is a demonstration that everything Christ said about both the human nature and his own divine nature and the difference between the two was true. God doesn't resurrect imposters, but does offer life and has it in his power to grant for those that repent and want to follow the Son, the door is now and forever more open. Been open for 2000 years. And apart from that door, there is no hope and never will be of being something different, of being what we were actually made to be. Something pleasing to God. Something for which we can say 'Thank God you made me into This through your Son'.
Reading Genesis again recently I was amused by something.
After eating the fruit and hiding from God, God asks both the man and then the woman a question.
God to man: "Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
Man: Woman's fault (btw, the one
you put here, so indirectly, your fault lol)
God to woman: "What is this you have done?"
Woman: Snake's fault
God to Snake: "Why did you... oh never mind. I know you and I know you know you and I know you know me. And this story isn't about you anyway, it's about them."
He never asks the Snake any questions
And sometimes I wonder if the man had just answered "Yes" and accepted responsibility and asked for mercy and not tried to pass judgement onto the woman who then tried to pass it onto the Serpent like a game of Hot Potato if the chapter might not have had a different, happier ending.
