Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 168
? 161 a father and if He cannot create a pious generation of sinful father, neither can He create a sinless generation of a sinful mother. The point at issue, therefore, is that if Messiah can be born of a sinful mother, other pious people can also be so born; nay, others can be more pious than the Messiah, on account of their partaking of the properties of both the parents. I have already made a mention of a Padre of Lahore who later became the Principal of the Saharanpur Mission College. I have stated before, a part of the talk I had with him. Now I would relate the rest of it. Probably Mr. Wood was the name of that missionary. I asked him if he could tell me what would happen if cold and hot water were mixed together. He said that it would get tempered; the hot water losing some of its heat and the cold water losing some of its coldness, there would be a balancing state. I enquired of him if Satan had first approached Adam or Eve. He said that he first went to Eve. I asked if the objective of Satan was to harm Eve or to do harm to Adam. I then put it to him that if Adam was his target why did he not go to Adam straight? Where was the necessity to make an encircling movement on the way? He answered that he did not go to Adam direct thinking that Eve was weak and that he would be able to prevail upon her easily and then she would manage to mislead Adam on her own, without any further ado on his part. I said that since Eve