Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 118
118 or physical or spiritual, existing in the parents, are liable to be transmitted to the children through heredity. It never happens that something may be transmitted through the father but not through the mother. Both the parents are concerned in heredity. When we examine the point from this stand, the conclusion is irresistible that Jesus, even though he had no father, did inherit Adam's sin through his mother. . Jesus can be declared free from hereditary sin, if it can be established that he was neither of the generation of Adam nor of Eve. If he was without both a father and a mother, we can certainly concede that he was not tainted with hereditary sin, or, when it is proved that Eve did not sin, Jesus may be deemed to be free from hereditary sin, as, it can then be argued that he was born of Eve who was sinless and not begotten of Adam who was sinful. But the truth is that even so, Jesus has no escape from sin. For, even if it is supposed that Eve did not sin and it was Adam alone who sinned, we could say that he did not carry the taint of sin if he were born of. Eve, but Jesus was born of a lady who was born thousands of years after Eve and was linked to her through thousands of chains. During this period, thousands of times sons of Adam had touched the daughters of Eve and it was thus after thousands of cycles that Mary was born. How could she ever be immune to the taint of Adam's sin through these thousands of cycles? Had she been born directly of Eve and had Eve also been free from sin, it could without a doubt be claimed that since Eve was without sin and Mary was born of her directly, she did not carry sin. But she was not born directly of Eve, but was of the generation of those daughters of Eve who had been tainted with sin thousands of times and having thus inherited, the sin of Adam could not be the cause of Messiah's sinlessness.