Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 79
? 72 "Wherefore, as by one-man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so, death passed upon all men, for that will have sinned. " Again, according to Jacob (1:15): "Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. " These references lead, on the one hand, to the finding that according to the Bible, eating of the fruit of the tree would make Adam liable to death, while the tree was life-giving and partaking of its fruit would not kill a man but would perpetuate his life; on the other hand, as stated in the Romans and in Jacob death was the crop of sin. In other words, if Adam and Eve had not sinned, they would not have died. Coupled with the contents of Genesis, Verse 22, Chapter 2, it makes amazing reading. It says that God expelled Adam from the garden of Eden lest he should eat of the tree of life and live for ever. In the event of death being the crop of sin, since he had become a sinner by partaking of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, even if he ate of the fruit of the tree of life umpteen of times, this could not have sustained his life. Therefore, it should be admitted that death is not the harvest of wrong-doing and that partaking of that tree bestowed life. On the contrary it is averred on the one hand that death is the harvest of sin and, on the other, the Bible maintains that God, the Supreme turned