Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 124
124 gold. I answered that in that case Eve's son would have to be considered more sinful than others, for, she was more sinful than Adam inasmuch as she not only ate of the fruit of the tree herself but also made Adam eat it and thus became doubly sinful. He lost his temper at that and said that gold was not quarried from a mine of dust and that the mine was of earth but that gold came out of it. I told him to keep the same in view in respect of Adam-that though he had sinned, there could be some of his generation who would be pious and free from every sinful tendencies. . ONLY ALTERNATIVE FOR CHRISTIANS. Now the Christians have only one way of escape left and that is to assert that, in the case of the Messiah, the question of the sin of his parents cannot arise; that he was the Son of God and therefore free from every sin in his person; that, the question does not arise in his case that because of being of the children of Eve he was more sinful or less sinful than others, but that because of being the son of God he was free from sin. In other words, his being sinless was not due to his being born of his mother but because of his being the son of God. Our objection to it is that if there was no special philosophy underlying his being without a father, and because of his being the son of God, he was immune to the influence of his parents, even if he were to have a father, he would not imbibe his influence; and if the. Messiah were to be born of a married woman and were to have a father, he would have all the same remained immune to the influence of Adam and Eve, for, his real status was that of the Son of God. When he had to be sinless in any case, why did then God commit a grave wrong in creating Jesus in a manner that has humiliated him in the whole world-all over people say that he was not born in wedlock. (We seek refuge with