Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 162
? 155 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. WAS EVE SINLESS? Again, it is incorrect to say that Eve was sinless. In fact, according to the Bible, she was a greater sinner than Adam, The Bible says: "Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. (It should be remembered that the serpent stands for Satan in the Bible). And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath god said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the