1.
To understand the significance of Christ's redeeming
sacrifice it is essential to understanding original sin
and imperfection. The bible informs us “Through one man
[Adam] sin entered into the world and death
through sin, and thus death spread to all men
because they had all sinned.” Romans
5:12. Then at 1
Corinthians 15:22 it tells us "For
just as through Adam all die, so also through Christ all
will (future) be made alive
again," Weymouth New Testament.
2.
Did Adam's original sin cause in him a physical mutation
which resulted in his imperfection (sin) from which he
died? Was this passed on to his offspring and so
onto all mankind causing all to die? If so how
through Christ can they all be made alive again?
3.
Adam when created was pristine, physically perfect,
described by God as approved and very good, (Gen 1:31) but his morals and disposition
based on his freewill were unproven and would need
testing. Adam did not have the right to
everlasting life, he had the opportunity of gaining it,
something physical members of God's family receive after
qualifying. Qualification required the positive exercise
of a persons freewill in determining each individuals
disposition and loyalty in relation to God and his
family, or lack of it. These choices would determine
whether an individual qualified for acceptance into
God's family with the privilege of everlasting life.
4.
The record tells us the cells in Adam's pristine body
were initially created with a possible maximum
life span of 1,000 years. This preset, maximum
1,000 year period is refereed to as a God day, "Don't overlook the obvious here, friends.
With God, one day is as a thousand years, a thousand
years as a day" 2 Pet 3:8 (MSG).
5.
God had the right as creator to examine Adam's
disposition toward Him by a test of his obedience
and loyalty. Would he accept that God had the
right to expect loyalty and obedience from
him? Adam failed his test, chose to ignore God
and went independent. He failed to live up to
God's standard, he became substandard falling short,
this is the meaning of the Greek word harmartia and
the Hebrew word chattath
translated sin.
6.
Adam was warned that if he did not stay within God's
commands and laws set to His standards, he would run out
of life within a period of a 1,000 years (Gen
2:17). Adam died an old man when
he was 930 years old. When measured against God's moral standard, by
choosing to
ignore Him he opposed God, and failed to
maintain God's standard, becoming a substandard
'sinner'. After Adam's failure his body didn’t
change in any way from its original condition before his
act of defiance, his genetic make up, his DNA remained
the same. But he had fallen short of God’s standard for loyalty.
7.
God did not need to pass a death sentence on him.
Adam had already been warned that opposition would lead
to death before he reached the age of 1,000. God had
warned him “In the
day (1,000 year day) you eat
of it you will positively die" Gen
2:17. Or because of going independent
and opposing God he would wear out and die before his
initial 1,000 years life charge ran out. Adam by his own
action inflicted an ageing or wearing out death sentence
on himself. God did nothing further.
8.
Adam initially had a 1,000 year maximum battery
cell life. He had been informed that if he opposed God, his cells
would age and wear out and he would die within
1,000 years (the DAY period). His
body was created perfectly able to maintain itself alive
for up to a maximum of 1,000 years. Beyond that, it required cell recharging to
extend life. This recharging provision
required plugging in to the source of life which came
from God "With you is the source of
life"; Ps 36:9, "For as the Father has life in Himself,
so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself",
John 5:26 (NKJV).
As the source of life God can extend this power of life
indefinitely to human members of His family who maintain
His standards. Outside the family, the life cells
run down and when flat, life goes out as it does in
animals. By
maintaining God's standards, and connection with Him as
a member of His family, God could maintain the physical
human body he had designed and created, at peak physical
fitness continually
9.
By way of illustration, a luxury electric car maker
supplies the machine with a battery already charged to
run for say 100 miles with the warning that it should be
recharged before a 100 miles are clocked up. This
requires plugging the car into the makers approved
recharging mechanism. Failing to do this or trying
to use some other recharging method and the car will
fail. Carry out the makers instructions and the
car will run on indefinitely.
10.
But how did Adam’s disloyalty result in death spreading
to all men? Adam's independent action caused him
to fall short of God's set standard required for members
of his family, as sons in the Father's image. This
failing of God's standards labelled SIN is very
much misused and misunderstood. There seems to be
two main categories of God's standards that can be
failed. We need to look at the various ways humans
can fall short of God's standards and thereby sin.
11.
TYPES OF FALLING SHORT ( SIN ).
1. PHYSICALLY
All physical human defects ie those
crippled, blind, diseased, ageing, etc fall short (sin) of God’s
physical standard. These are often genetic
caused by DNA degeneration. In fact to a greater
or lesser degree all humans suffer defects, the result
of 6,000 years of conglomerated inherent degeneration
(we are born in sin). Not necessarily the
individuals fault.
2. MORALLY
Personality defects ie adulterers,
fornicators, homosexuals, thieves, drunks,
extortioners, murderers, liars (1Cor 6:10),
all fall short of God's moral standards. These
are not genetically inherited, but generally self
induced. Adam's sin falls into this category.
Every human falls short on numerous issues,
self induced (sin) and inherited deficiencies (born in
sin) all humans carry a measure of both. We all fall
short; we are all substandard.
HOW
DID ADAM INDUCE SIN INTO THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE?
12.
How did Adam's substandard condition, his 'sin',
get passed on to his offspring and the entire human
race? By opposing
God he failed
qualification as a member of His family. From this
position he could only pass on to his human offspring
the same substandard inheritance rights of a maximum
ageing life span of 1,000 years he then
possessed. Nothing up to God's standard could be passed
on from him by way of inheritance. None of Adams
close offspring lived more than the 1,000 year maximum,
Adam lived 930 years followed by among others Jared 962
years, Methuselah 969 years, and Noah who lived
950 years. None could live more than the maximum
1,000 year life charge Adam pass on to them.
13.
Since then,
ongoing conglomerated
degeneration through inherited DNA, along with other factors have
reduced
the maximum potential life charge, down a lot further,
to its present average level now of just over 70
years. Devolving a long way below its maximum of
1,000 years, an indicator of just how far we miss God's
standards and how great our conglomerated substandard
position of imperfection is. So long as descendants of Adam's human family
are alienated from God's family, no cell life,
recharging can be obtained.
HOW DID ADAM PASS SIN ON IF NOT GENETICALLY?
14.
Looking a little more carefully at the evidence.
Adam rebelled after being won over and uniting with a
spirit opposer of God. With the inducement that by
“making his own independent choices he would achieve God
like status, becoming like God and so would not die”. God had said, "You
must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the
middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will
die.” The opposition
maintained God lied when he said “You
will certainly
not die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat
from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil.”Gen 3:3-5.
15.
This original lie, that they 'would not die
but becoming spirit creatures like God'. All
ancient pagan religions believed this original lie and
the majority of modern ones as well, along with most
Christian religions today who continue to teach and
believe this lie. This original lie has led to the
erroneous universal belief that humans have immortal
souls. Adam obviously did not have an immortal
soul as God had warned he would definitely die. If they had had immortal souls they could not
die.
16.
Adam by accepting and subscribing to these lies
subjected himself to this instigator's control,
essentially making him his god and subjecting the human
race to this adversaries (Satan's)
control becoming part of his family. "You
are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do
the desires of your father. That one was a
murderer when he began, and he did not stand
fast in the truth, because truth is not in him.
When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his
own disposition, because he is a liar and the
father of the lie" John
8:44
. This slanderer (diabolos) has now
become the god and ruler of this world, "the ruler of
this world will be cast out" John
12:31, "the ruler of
the world is coming, and he has no hold on me" John 14:30, "the ruler of
this world has been judged" John
16:11.
17.
It could be reasoned that before rebellion the first
couple lived with innocence not having experienced any
guilt or shame through failing their creator. If
they remained in harmony with the father they would
never have lost this innocent relationship and it could
have been passed on to their offspring, something none
of us has ever experienced. The new shame they
experienced was personal confirmation of wrong against
their father and brought guilt. We all now live in it
constantly because we continually fall short.
18.
By way of example; If having been born into a rich
family I am disinherited through my unacceptable actions
and behaviour, rebelling against the family head and
leave it. I will then be unable to pass on to my
offspring any inheritance rights I enjoyed whilst a
member of the rich family. My inheritance has been
lost by my actions and I carry the guilt for it. But
this loss passes on to my descendants.
19.
A reversing illustration; Should an orphaned child
be brought into a rich household with the possibility of
being adopted at the legal age into the rich
family. The child would receive full inheritance
rights as a family member which could be passed on to
members of the child's own family. Should the
prospective adoptee rebel against the head of the family
breaching his rules it would not be unreasonable to
conclude they would not be adopted into the
family. He would lose out and so would his
children. Moral
deficiency (sin) made Adam substandard and so God's
required standard could not pass from him by way of
inheritance to his children. But what about adoption?
CAN THIS LOST INHERITANCE BE RETRIEVED?
20.
The question is could God be motivated by concern and love for the
futile state of the human race who could do nothing
about their inherent situation? If inclined how could God possibly reverse and
undo this sad condition? How could God adopt
disinherited humans back into his family? Adam's
entire negative inheritance would need to be
countermanded in order to offer the entire human race an
opportunity for each to make their own individual choice
over
loyalty without being contaminated as we are
now through inherited alienation from God's family.
21.
Thankfully God has shown consideration toward mankind by
arranging to do just this. He at great personal
cost, has provided a replacement human father for the
human race. A second Adam one who will counter balance
the inherent death effects of Adam, enabling adoption
into his family for all those who wish it.
These ones will be able to continually recharge
their life batteries from their creator father. Any second Adam would need to break up and
roll back thousands of years of built up control by the
initial instigate of rebellion with Adam the present
world controlling, slandering, deceiving Devil father of
the human race.
22.
This time it was a first born spirit son of God who
voluntarily transferred by metamorphosing from spirit to
human in order to accomplish this major task “As in Adam all died so
also in Christ all shall be made alive" 1 Cor 15:22
(RHE).
By applying a
redeeming cure our whole disinherited situation can be
reversed and upgraded to God's standard.
23.
The bible record reveals how this disinherited situation
of our inherited and personal sin will be completely
reversed while applying and adhering to God's standards
and laws. For
more information on this cure and God's plans for applying
it, how it effects you directly and who the first ones
are to be readopted back into God's family see ~