Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 123
123 the rest of it. Probably Mr. Wood was the name of this missionary. I asked him if he could tell me what would happen if cold and hot water were mixed together. He said that it would get tempered; the hot water losing some of its heat and the cold water losing some of its coldness, there would be a balancing state. I enquired of him if Satan had first approached Adam or Eve. He said that he first went to Eve. I asked if the objective of Satan was to harm Eve or to do harm to Adam. I then put it to him that if Adam was his target why did he not go to Adam straight? Where was the necessity. He answered to make an encircling movement on the way? that he did not go to Adam direct thinking that Eve was weak and that he would be able to prevail upon her easily and then she would manage to mislead Adam on her own, without any further ado on his part. I said that since Eve was weaker than Adam and was the first to commit sin and was responsible for misleading Adam, how is it then that one born of Eve exclusively, was sinless. I said that taking into consideration the case of hot and cold water mixture, if we took Adam for cold water and Eve for hot water, the progeny born of their mixture, would certainly not be as sinful as the progeny born of Eve alone, and that, therefore, the. Messiah who was born of Eve was more sinful than others. . He asked if gold was not mined from dust. I told him that that formed the whole crux of the problem in dispute between us-that if gold could be mined from dust, then he could freely call Adam a sinner but must simultaneously concede that his progeny could be sinless and not necessarily invariably sinful. When I tackled him in that manner, he said that gold was not mined from dust but that it was mined from gold, and since Adam was sinful his progeny must necessarily be sinful and could not be sinless, for, gold was mined from