why am i paying for adam and eves sins?

Question

i didnt eat that apple, so why am I "born into sin"

Answer 1

because you are still committing them. disobedience, discontentment, envy and greed. Give in to temptation.

Answer 2

It is similar to the way any person tends to pay for the "sins" of their parents. For example, if someones parents had been a couple of abusive druggies, they would probably have been neglected, abused, and raised in poverty. They are "paying" for the sins of their parents Odds are that they will carry over some of those same abuses to their children. So often a child "pays" for the sins of his parents, grandparents, and possibly even further back.

With Adam, the penalty was even larger. The results of his sin was more than just passing on some abuse or some bad habits. When he sinned, it caused the spirit within him to die. A several years after that, the body also.

That dead spirit has been passed on to everyone since. That is why sin is so common. No one has to teach a person to sin. They will do it because it is their nature.

That is why Jesus came. His dead pays the penalty so that we can be free from the sin of Adam - if we want. Christianity offers the "solution" to the problem. Through faith in Christ, a person can receive a new spirit, reborn and alive to the things of God. Then he is no longer under the penalty of Adam's sin.

Answer 3

I know what you mean - why did the rest of humanity have to suffer for the actions of two people. I wish I knew. Why does sin have to exist? Why can't we all just start out pure, and have our thoughts, behavior, and actions not really count until we get to be about 12? I know that children can begin to tell right from wrong around age 2, but they can't control themselves very well or make a conscious effort to NOT do wrong. If I could make the rules, I would say that everyone is guaranteed eternal life (and there would be no diseases or genetic defects for anyone) as long as after about age 12, they don't sin. Once you make the choice to sin, you don't get to live forever. But then... what if that person wants to seek forgiveness from God? How would he or she do it? What would be the catalyst that would prompt God to re-offer eternal life or heaven to the sinner? Would it be a simple "I'm sorry" type of prayer? But even if that would be sufficient for God, if the person sinned again, what then? Would God just keep forgiving them and saying, "It's OK, you still get to go to heaven". But where is the justice in that? Let's say that someone actually manages to stay sin-free for 5 thousand years (nobody dies until they first sin in my strange scenario) and sees all of these sinners around him eventually dying but still being allowed into heaven. That doesn't sound very fair. Perhaps he'd want to sin, just so he could die and get to go to heaven. Hmm. This is getting rather complicated. I hate sin, personally, and I still wish that Adam and Eve's actions didn't affect me, but it is so much simpler this way (our reality). Everyone sins, so everyone automatically starts out equally. Because in reality, there is no cause for that kind of injustice. There is a lot of other injustice, but that would happen anyway, even in my weird scenario, because people will sin. It's a given.

Answer 4

This is wrong. It is unforgivable. The whole concept is sick. If you go by this first statement of chrisitianity and islam both believing in the above statement, then it means the whole of the human race has been started on the basis of incest. It is sick. It makes my stomach churn. And yet it is the belief of the largest religion in the world.

My post may be removed and I hope you will read it before it is, because everytime I have told the truth about beliefs especially islam and now christianity, yahoo removes them.

It is a sin to have started the human race in this nature. We are not the children of adam and eve. And we are not the children of the same god. There is variety on this earth but even that is being destroyed mainly by the two big religions of islam and christianity.

Think about it carefully. How can it possibly be? It is sick. It is a sin.

Answer 5

It was an inherent problem with man not a particular act. They were given only one rule. Kinda like you are placed in the best place in the universe or your imagenation and told you can stay here forever if you just do not push this one button. Bet you think you would never push that button right and with all the knowledge you have right now maybe you would not but if the only thing you ever knew was this great place and you had to not push that button and this voice said go do it you can get an even better existance just push the button and you wil become very wise thats why you are not to push that button

bet you think no way I would not do it, but I am telling you that you would and it is for that imperfection that you pray for to be forgiven.

Answer 6

Because God said so. When Adam and Eve ate of the Apple they were condemned forever and ever and so will all their decendants. So with God and His word you are a sinner no matter what - But, now since Jesus went to the cross and spilled His own blood for you, you are redeemed in the eyes of God. God wants to have a relationship with you because He loves you - Jesus cleared up all the stuff in the Old Testament so when you realize that Jesus gave Himself up for you then you can live freely and not worry about the Apple!

Answer 7

Because imperfect people cannot produce perfect people. But on the bright side, God made provisions immediately after they sinned to correct the situation. He's just allowing enough time to pass so that humans can try every form of government and rulership to prove that we aren't able to rule ourselves successfully. Once God deems the time to have been sufficient, the battle of Armageddon will begin and Satan and his demons will be bound for 1000 years and those who oppose God's Kingdom will be destroyed. Those who are faithful will remain living and those who have died (assuming they didn't die as a result of God's judgment - ie, Adam and Eve, those who died as a result of the flood of Noah's day, etc.) will be resurrected to life on earth. During the 1000 year reign of Jesus as King of God's Kingdom, humans will be brought back to a perfect standing before God and then Satan will be released for a very short period of time, after which he will be destroyed along with any who choose to rebel after having reached perfection. After that, everyone else will have the prospect of eternal life on a paradise earth which is exactly what God's purpose was to begin with. What he purposes will always happen.

Answer 8

Adam and Eve where our first parents. we have inherited sin from them. If you bake a cake in a tin with a dent you will never get a perfect cake. likewise Adam could not produce perfect children, he was dented, as it were. He was not loyal to his God and this life is the result of his siding with Satan Genesis 2 verse 17, God said ' don't eat from that tree, as you will die.' Then Geneses 3 verses 1-6 was the deception of Eve.She was told and deceived by Satan that 'she wouldn't die' and Adam was wilfully disobedient as he wasn't deceived. 1 Timothy chapter 2 verse 14. Hence the problems that we see today as the ruler of this world is Satan the devil. Reason this at Mathew chapter 4 and verse 8. He offered Jesus ' All the Kingdoms of the world, if he would do just one act of worship to him'. Jesus told him to clear off. One day Jesus will rule this world, with the permission of his Father Jehovah God because of his loyalty to him. He paid the price with his life for a ransom that was needed to buy back perfection and life for us that Adam lost.

Answer 9

When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they cut themselves off from Him, since He is perfect and cannot abide sin. Since none of their children had yet been born, that "cut off from God" defect got passed down to them...a little like a drug-addicted woman can have a baby who is born addicted to the same substance as her. And if you don't believe we're all "addicted" to sin, you haven't read the newspaper or seen the news lately...or listened to your guilty conscience when you did something you -knew- was wrong!
However, God loves us so much that He sent a cure for our addiction: Jesus Christ, who took all sin and its penalty upon Himself. For more information, read the New Testament--start with the Gospel of John; it has the clearest, most direct explanation of who Christ is and what His purpose was.

Answer 10

Well it doesnt really matter does it. You sinned in your lifetime right??? Of course. So perhaps God was explaining that everyone was a sinner due to their non-God-like nature. We arent God, so we cant be perfect, and so we sin. Soooooooooo, you are "born into sin" by your nature, not bc your ancestors did it so you are being punished for it. You did it too!

Answer 11

We are naturally born with the characteristics of our parents. This is true emotionally, mentally, and physically. For instance, I have many of the physical characteristic of my parents. To look at the 3 of us, you would not have a problem see them as my parents because I look very like them. I am the same in other ways. I used to think it was awful when my mother beathed very heavily and seemed to exert herself overmuch when working. She made hard work look too much like hard work. Now, I find myself doing the same thing. Recently, I found myself getting up out of an armchair in exactly the same way that my father does. We are exact combination-copies of our parents.
The major trait that Adam passed on to successive generations was the tendency to disobey God. We all do it, even if we know what God wants us to do. The Apostle Paul desparately wanted to obey god, and put in sterling service in God's name, but he had to put up a struggle to do so. If he had to struggle to avoid sin. See Romans Chapter 7.

Another way to look at it is view sin as a congenital disease. The main symptom of this disease is our inability to communicate with God as well as we might - the loss of our direct relationship with God. Oher symptoms include negative tendencies like anger, greed and lust, etc. Here, it's a almost a case of keeping up with the Joneses - if they can act that way, why can't we. Many people see nothing wrong with these traits, because everybody expresses themselves that way. It's not necessarily the reality of the situation, it just seems that way, and that seems to be enough for people to get that little bit worse as each generation passes by.
The final, and possibly the least important symptom is physical infirmity leading to disease and death.
When Adam disobeyed God, he contracted the disease of Sin. Sin is unfortunately a congenital disease and so all of Adams decendants contract it also.
The good news is that God has opened the way for a cure, by allowing his son to be sacrificed for our sins. Ask Jehovah's Witnesses for further details.