Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 40
40 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction Jesus Cannot Possibly Atone Last but not least, how could Jesus as be born innocent when he had a human mother? If the sin of Adam and Eve had polluted the entire progeny of this unfortunate couple, then as a natural consequence, all male and female children must inherit the same genetic propensity to sin. Females were perhaps more likely to, because it was Eve who, as the instrument of Satan, enticed Adam. Therefore, the responsibility of sin falls squarely on the shoulders of Eve rather than of Adam. In the case of the birth of Christ as , obviously it was a daughter of Eve who contributed the major share. The question that very forcefully arises is whether Jesus as inherited any gene bearing chromosomes from his human mother or not. If he did, then it was impossible for him to escape the inevitable inherited sin. If he did not inherit any chromo- somes from his mother or from God the Father, then indeed his birth would be doubly miraculous. Only a miracle can produce a son who neither belongs to his father nor to his mother. What remains incomprehensible is why those chromosomes, provided by Eve, did not carry the innate tendency to sin to the child Jesus as. Suppose it happened somehow, and Jesus as had that inno- cence needed to carry the sins of mankind, on the condition that they believed in him and not otherwise, then another problem would arise: what happened, one may ask, to the progeny of Adam and Eve that died before the dawn of Christianity? How many billions of them might have got scattered throughout the world over five continents generation after generation. They must have lived and died without hope or even the possibility of ever