Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 169
? 162 was weaker than Adam and was the first to commit sin and was responsible for misleading Adam, how is it then that one born of Eve exclusively, was sinless. I said that taking into consideration the case of hot and cold water mixture, if we took Adam for cold water and Eve for hot water, the progeny born of their mixture, would certainly not be as sinful as the progeny born of Eve alone, and that, therefore, the Messiah who was born of Eve was more sinful than others. He asked if gold was not mined from dust. I told him that that formed the whole crux of the problem in dispute between us—that if gold could be mined from dust, then he could freely call Adam a sinner but must simultaneously concede that his progeny could be sinless and not necessarily invariably sinful. When I tackled him in that manner, he said that gold was not mined from dust but that it was mined from gold, and since Adam was sinful his progeny must necessarily be sinful and could not be sinless, for, gold was mined from 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 I 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