Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 17
Sin and Atonement 17 His sense of justice. The only difference between this and the previous position, which was responsible for this dramatic change, is the fact that it would be Jesus as who would be punished and not the sinful sons and daughters of Adam. It would be the sacrifice of Jesus as which would ultimately be instrumental in atoning for the sins of the children of Adam. However strange and bizarre this logic may seem to be, this is exactly what is professed to have happened. Jesus as volunteered himself and was consequently punished for sins he had never committed. The Sin of Adam and Eve Let us re-examine the story of Adam from the beginning. Not a single step in the above doctrine can be accepted by human conscience and logic. Firstly, we have the idea that because Adam and Eve sinned, their progeny became genetically and eternally polluted with sin. In contrast to this, the science of genetics reveals that human thoughts and actions, be they good or bad, even if persistently adhered to during the entire lifetime of a person, cannot be transferred to and encoded into the genetic system of human reproduction. A lifespan is too short a period to play any role in bringing about such profound changes. Even the vices of a people, generation after generation, or their good deeds for that matter, cannot be transferred to the progeny as genetic characters. Perhaps millions of years are required for etching human genes with new characteristics.