How to respond

[living]

Hi everybody. God Bless!

I was having an interfaith dialogue with one of my friend last night. He posed a notion about christianity with a question. I want to ask you guys, how much truth is there in his claim and how can we respond to it?

He said:

“ Adam and Eve disobeyed God and did a Sin. Since we are children of Adam and Eve, therefore we inherit sin. Thus we all are born in sin and deserve Hell.
Though we work hard to be good, pray every day and give charity but that will not help save us unless we believe that Jesus Christ died on cross for our sins.

So, Christianity is a religion that blames you for what your ancestors did and blesses you for what Jesus Christ did.

Consider if the same happens in our Courts, we are accused of crimes that our fore fathers did and people are spared for good deeds of others. What will we call such a Judiciary system? Fair or Unjust? ”

 

[BecuzHeLives]

I don't know about you, but your friend ask some of the weirdest question I have ever heard. Seem like he try to prove that God is unfair rather than stating the truth. First of all, we don't do good so we are getting in Heaven. But we do good things because we love Jesus and he save us. Secondly, God is always fair and righteous regardless. So if we are sinners how do we save ourself, surely good works and good deeds can't help. YOu need someone who have defeat sin, which mean Jesus is sinless and defeat satan to help you.

When we said we have ancestral sins, that meant we once perfect. Until our ancestral ate the forbidden fruit. Are we blaming our ancestral??? The answer is no!! We're all sinners fall short of God's Glory. Rather then asking wether it's unfair or unjust that we have our ancestral sins. Just be happy that God (Jesus Christ) came to perfected us and forgive our sin. That include our sins right now and ancestral sins. So why wondering about sins, when you already being save. Rather asking question if it's unfair or unjust that we are born with ancestral sins. Give praise to the Lord for he have save all mankind who believe him who have died for everyone because he love all of us this much. Even if we are sinner!!

So be happy brother, God Bless. As for your friend, pray to God to see if he's a real friend of your. Seem like he try to make you lose your faith and give up.

 

[MAJ52653]

We do not inherit Adam's personal sin, which he himself committed. Because Adam is our collective father, we inherit his sin nature.
To translate that to English; Adam used to have a perfect body and soul. But when he sinned it was corrupted. He became mortal. He started to age. He found that he could get sick. Need glasses. Need false teeth. He died. And on the spiritual side, he found it easier to commit the next sin. And the one after that was even easier.
We see that in babies. No one has to teach a baby to be self centered and demanding. Loudly. It takes years to teach him that others exist with their own thoughts, desires, property, and rights.
And sooner or later, all the other aspects of Adam's fall show up. We age. Our teeth fall out. And like Adam, we find that we can sin. And that each sin gets easier to do.
And when we sin, God will punish us for our sins. Our sins. Not Adam's.
While the tendancy to sin is inherited - the sin nature - it is possible to never sin. But by the time we are aware of such things, we have already sinned, and sinned plenty on our own.
The only one who has never given in to the tendancy to sin is Jesus Christ. So while He was fully human as we are, and was tempted by Satan himself in person, He never sinned.
But we all have. And then some. So God is fully just to punish us for our sins. Because we gave in. Jesus did not.
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