If God is just, why is he punishing us for something Adam and Eve committed?

Question

The originial sin concept doesn't sound very just to me.
If a father commits a crime, you don't jail his son, right?

Answer 1

Im still trying to figure out why he would let people burn for eternity. I don't understand the Bible.

Answer 2

To many apples at stake here. God told Adam and Eve that if they eat the forbidden fruit of knowledge then God will punish all of Adam 's and Eve descendants.

That's OK for that specific tribe, however, why should God punish all other tribes that co-existed around the world at that period of time in history.

Is the Adam and Eve parables based on tribal mirth.

Answer 3

I cannot let this question pass from one of my ear to the other.
As a Christian, I'll explain it to you no matter how stubborn you are not to listen.

God never punished us. God is not punishing anybody. Let's say he's just a bit unjust, okay? But he sent Jesus Christ, his only son, to save mankind. The Original Sin is simply a reminder that we are sinners, and it is not a mark of punishment. We, Catholics, have this Sacrament of Baptism where the Original Sin is washed away from us.

You say God is unjust, but isn't it more unjust that you judge a perfect being like God?

Answer 4

Adam and eve are just symbols referring every man and woman in the universe
when God punished them this is because he know everything and then he know that all the race of Adam and Eve will be similar or even worse
and the being of man kind on earth is a test period for people

Answer 5

You are assuming that you are being punished.
You are also assuming that you have not committed the crime.
Thereby, you conclude God is not just, assuming that there is a god.

Ownership of responsibility helps determine the magnitude of punishment. Human kind, like Adam and Eve, failed to take ownership of their fault. They hid and when exposed blamed a third party (Satan). Mankind's failure to repent, forgive, to take ownership, quit hiding, and to stop blaming others looms over all.

Answer 6

Jehovah God is not punishing us and no you don't jail the son.
However,when the father has a hereditary disease this can be passed on to his son,can it not?
And this is the case with Adam and Eve.When they disobeyed God,they sinned.That sin caused them to lose their perfect health and hope of eternal life.As their offspring we all inherit this imperfection.Therefore,we all age,get sick and eventually die.
In Jehovah's great love for mankind,He allowed his only begotten Son,Christ Jesus to offer up his perfect human life as a ransom sacrifice in order to free mankind from this enslavement to sin and death.
John 3:16 states:"For God loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten Son,in order that anyone who exercises faith in him,might not be destroyed but have everlasting life."
So we do have a hope for the future but we need to have faith and exercise that faith.

Answer 7

Through Adam we inherited the sin nature which brought corruption and death to all creation, including man. With the sin nature we are prone to sin and have sinned and therefore we deserved to be punished for our own actions. On the contrary, God offers us a way out of all punishment by Him by allowing Jesus to suffer all His judgments and punishment for our sins on the cross so that we are forever clear of punishment by God for all our sins. All we have to do is to believe Jesus Christ has done this for us and to receive Him as our Lord and Savior. We are punished only if we do not believe Jesus has took our punishment on Himself and do not accept Him as our Savior and Lord. We are punished because we refuse to accept God's help through our unbelief. God is just to offer us a way out if we believe.

Answer 8

Yes, it isn't right. It's wrong.

Now, see what God has been trying to tell good Christians and everyone else:
http://one-heaven.org

That belief in concepts created by Paul of Tarsus in cursing humanity, in telling such terrible and evil lies are over.

But still they don't listen.

In fact, a few still happily spew this terrible blasphemy to God even in this answer.

Please, I urge you if you believe in Jesus, if you truly think you believe in God to separate the terrible lies of Paul and start listening to the words of Jesus. The concept of Original Sin is a huge and evil lie.

It is time that this lie is finally put to rest.

Answer 9

I think you should read the Old and New Testaments and answer that question for yourself. You just opened up a Pandora's Box of Discombobulation, my friend. Praise God. Praise the Lord.

Answer 10

He is Just that is why he has provide for us the way out of our sins and punishment
The ransom sacrifice of God’s Son, Jesus Christ, makes it possible for anyone who exercises faith in him to receive everlasting life. (John 3:16, 17; Acts 10:34, 35) “He that exercises faith in the Son has everlasting life,” says the Bible. “He that disobeys the Son will not see life.” (John 3:36) You can choose life by learning about God, his Son, and His will from the pages of the Bible and by applying what you learn. The person acting in accord with true wisdom recorded in God’s Word is assured that “he will reside in security and be undisturbed from dread of calamity.”—Proverbs 1:20, 33.

THE answer that the Bible gives to this question is very simple but clear and full of significance. To grasp its importance, though, we first need to see Jesus' life and death as a solution to a very difficult problem. Only then can we properly understand the enormous value of Jesus' death.
In having Jesus give his life, God was dealing with a situation that arose when Adam sinned. What a tragedy that sin was! The very first man and his wife, Eve, were perfect. The beautiful garden of Eden was their home. God gave them the meaningful work of caring for their garden home. They were to have under their loving oversight the other living creatures on earth. And as humans multiplied and filled the earth with millions of their kind, they were to expand the paradise to earth's limits. (Genesis 1:28) What a delightful and exciting work they were given! Moreover, they had the warm companionship of each other. (Genesis 2:18) They lacked nothing. Happy eternal life was before them.
It is hard to imagine how Adam or Eve could sin. But the first human pair rebelled against the very one who created them—Jehovah God. Using a serpent, the spirit creature Satan the Devil deceived Eve into disobeying Jehovah, and Adam followed her.—Genesis 3:1-6.
There was no question about what the Creator would do about Adam and Eve. He had already spelled out the consequence of disobedience, stating: "From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die." (Genesis 2:16, 17) A question of far greater magnitude now required an answer.
Mankind Faces a Difficult Problem
The original sin created a very critical problem for mankind. Adam began life as a perfect human. Therefore, his children could have enjoyed perfect everlasting life. However, Adam sinned before he fathered any children. The entire human race was still in his loins when he received the sentence: "In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." (Genesis 3:19) So when Adam sinned and began to die as God said he would, all mankind was sentenced to death along with him.
Appropriately, the apostle Paul later wrote: "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) Yes, Jesus’ death is a means of rescuing "everyone exercising faith" in him from sin, disease, old age, and death itself. (John 3:16)

Answer 11

The effect of original sin doesn't have to do with God's justice. It has to do with his holiness. We aren't able to come into his presence because we have sin. He provided a way for us to be reconciled to him. That way is through Jesus Christ. If we deny Jesus Christ then there is no more forgiveness for sin, and our sin remains on us and we can not be reconciled to God. Therefore, God's justice is proven.