If you believe Adam and Eve is only symbolic then why would we need Jesus to die for a symbolic sin?

Question

Could this omnipotent God not think of another way of saving his only son that it had to send him down to die for some symbolic sin. An omnipotent God would be able to do anything it wants to, but yet it chooses a path in which someone must die.

For those who believe in the Adam and Eve story how could mankind continue on with Adam and Eve having two boys. That would mean we are all byproducts of inbreds that God put on this earth. Clearly they did not have a choice if they were to continue mankind. I know this type of stuff was common back then, but didn't God clearly set them up. Wouldn't incest mess up your genes. How did we get people of different races?

Answer 1

The only way for any of this to make sense would be if God did not exist. That would make Jesus wrong about being the son of God, which would go a long way toward explaining why he was executed.

VLR

Answer 2

People who believe the story of Adam and Eve is symbolic, still believe that the sin or all sin is real. Sin is disobedience from God.

God sent Jesus to earth to save mankind from death and to permanently reconcile God and man. The sacrifice of Christ atones for the failures of all men. I do not claim to know why God choose this path. He choose a path were his son would die but also rise again.

God obviously created other people than just Adam and Eve as Cain married a women he met in a town. If you accept that God could create one man and women, why couldn't he create more?

Answer 3

The story of Adam and Eve while not necessarily factual still tells the spiritual truth that the first human beings (who ever they were) disobeyed the commandment of God, choosing to follow their own will rather than God's will.

As a consequence they lost the grace of original holiness, and became subject to the law of death; sin became universally present in the world.

Besides the personal sin of "Adam and Eve," original sin describes the fallen state of human nature which affects every person born into the world, and from which Christ, the "new Adam," came to redeem us.

With love in Christ.