If I do not believe in Original Sin, since I believe Adam never existed, then I don't need a Redeemer, do I

Answer 1

Nope. All you need is a bag of Chips and a cold beer.

Answer 2

The concept of Original sin is totally misconstrued by the Christians. Jews do not believe in the original sin in the same way as the Christians nor do the Muslims.

Many do not even understand the concept of sin properly. Sin is a disobedience to God in the Muslim view of things. A sin could not be committed UNTIL GOD ORDERED one to do something or forbade one from doing something (as in the case of Adam who was forbidden to eat from a certain tree). If I ordered someone to do something and they did not and I was mad. Later if they are repentent, I could forgive them.

I do not need a sacrifice of somekind to forgive that disobedience. The confusion comes when the Jews were being trained to give a sacrifice for sins they committed to make them be obedient. Sacrifice was always something that sustained their life. Food items including animals which the Jewish people in that agrarian society had to depend on for their very survival.

They were being trained to obey God or pay a price if they do not disobey, so that as a group they would collectively become obedient.

Christians misconstrue the whole thing and try to make it seem that God can not forgive without a blood sacrifice, when that does not make logical sense. Killing an animal was a loss for someone who depended on that animal for his livelihood. God did not benefit from the sacrifice.

Also, the Jewish people were being trained to obey and not sin. Just as one gets a ticket for speeding. It does not really benefit the government that much, except perhaps paying for the traffic policemen, but the purpose of the penalty is to modify the behavior of the common public so they benefit by obeying the laws.

I hope this puts context to your question. YOU do not need a redeemer. God alone can redeem all of us, and he just needs to forgive our disobedience when we are dead and our training or lack of training at that point become immaterial.

Answer 3

If I do not believe in Gravity, since I believe Issac Newton never existed, then I don't need an airplane to fly, do I?

Look around you, and just like the way objects consistently fall should convince that gravity exist, so the state of the world with its wars, hatred, crime, evil, disease and death should show the sin exist. If you can not see it there, then look into your own heart. Do you ever have to struggle with doing the right thing? Then original sin exist. It simply means the tenedency with people to want to do things they shouldn't.

Not believing in it will not free you from either the desire to do wrong or the consequences that follow. Just like not believing in gravity will not let you fly.

Answer 4

You only need a Redeemer if you want to live forever. If all you want is to deny God and follow your own will in this earthly life, that is fine, you can have that, but when your soul arrives in hell after your die, it will cost you a lot of weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. This life is just a temporary assignment. You say you dont believe in original sin. Are you without sin like Christ, then? I doubt it. Original sin basically means that sin is part of our nature. Do you need to teach a child how to lie? No, it is a natural talent! I will never forget catching my 2 year old nephew in the act of writing on grandma's wall. "Oi!" I called out, upon which the little man started with surprise. Caught red-handed (with texta in hand) he burst out, "Sissy did it!"
Lying and other sinful acts have been part of our nature since Eve was beguiled into believing that knowledge of Evil (as well as knowledge of Good) would expand her consciousness and make her wise, like God. God kept His Word :"If you eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall surely die". As a result of tasting the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve had to grow old and die.
Even if you choose not to believe in Adam, you surely believe in the inevitability of death. The first death (the one in which our physical bodies die) is something we all have to experience. When we die, the spirit which inhabits the flesh (and keeps it motoring around) leaves the body and the body is cremated or buried. The second death is the one in which our spirit is destroyed by the Creator who made it in the first place. This death is optional. You can escape it by acknowledging your sinful state and then asking Jesus Christ to forgive your sin and be the master of your life. The wages of sin is (spiritual) death, but God so loved the world that He gave the lifeblood of His only begotten Son, to cover the black sin of all humankind, that we might live in a Love Place in harmony and fellowship with God for all Eternity. Eternity can be for everyone, but it is a choice each person makes for himself. God is a gentleman. He is not going to bash the door of your heart down and demand that you pay him respect. He stands at the door and knocks politely. If you ignore him, you will one day be condemmned to Hell by a just and Almighty Judge, the same just Judge who will not condemn me, because I gave up my own will and surrendered my life to him.

Answer 5

If you are wrong about original sin then you would need a redeemer right? Think about that.

Answer 6

God's word, including the word that we all have sinned and fallen short of God's glory, is truth. Just because you do not believe does not turn the word of God into a lie. The grass withers and the flower fades but the word of God stands forever.

Answer 7

If I say, I don't believe in cancer, then even if I do have cancer, then i need no treatment?????

Not believing in original sin or Adam and Eve does not change anything.

You may be sincere, but you can be sincerely wrong.

Answer 8

The flaw in your logic is this. You may not believe that you should look both ways before you cross the street but if you go out and get run down by a car all of what you believed didn't matter because your belief didn't change the reality that it's smart to check for cars before crossing the street.

In the same way, just because you don't believe that you need a Savior doesn't change the reality that this universe was created by God who sent his Son to pay the sin debt of all who would by faith claim this payment for themselves. On the day of judgment if you stand before God without Jesus then you are going to have to pay the penalty for any sins that you have committed while those who were wise enough to accept God's payment will have already had their penalty paid for them.

Whether or not you believe this doesn't matter as far as it being real or not. Turn to Christ before you get run down by the one way train to Hell!

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 10:9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Revelation 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.

13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. 14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Answer 9

Just supposing everything in the Bible is true, it wouldn't matter whether you believe in it or not. It wouldn't make it any less real.
On the other hand, it's entirely possible that you're right.
I disagree with you though.

Answer 10

Well, philosophically speaking, it depends on what the truth is.

Since I don't know what the truth is, its kind of hard to tell you whether or not we need a redeemer.