Re: How to Become a Christian, Version 1.01
From: Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD (nospam6_at_heartmdphd.com)
Date: 09/05/04
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Date: 5 Sep 2004 14:39:18 -0700
"Mano Govender" <manospam@thelani.co.za> wrote in message news:<4136ab9a.0@news1.mweb.co.za>...
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> 20. Explain why original sin exists. Why should I be
> eternally tortured for something that distant ancestors did over six
> thousand years ago? If you believe that children are born stained because
> they were conceived sexually, explain why I would be punished for something
> my parents did. If this does not apply to your sect, explain why.
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The original sin exists because our common ancestor (Adam and Eve, who
are *not* the first man and woman, but the first who were endowed with
the ability of speech so that "whatever the man called each living
creature, that was its name" in the Garden of Eden) chose to willfully
disobey God.
>From Genesis 2:
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the
field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see
what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living
creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the
livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.
>From Genesis 3:
10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I
was naked; so I hid." 11 And he said, "Who told you that you were
naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat
from?" 12 The man said, "The woman you put here with me-she gave me
some fruit from the tree, and I ate it." 13 Then the LORD God said to
the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent
deceived me, and I ate."
It seems that their tendency for willful disobedience is now our
inheritance (along with God's gift of speech). All who are parents
know that I write truthfully for they have seen this tendency for
willful disobedience of righteous authority in their own children.
It is God's gift of speech (and God Himself) that allowed the
descendants of Adam and Eve to prevail over the descendants of the
other men and women that God had made in this world. Being conceived
sexually ties us genetically with Adam and Eve so that along with
God's gift of speech, we also inherit the tendency to willfully
disobey righteous authority. We need Christ to save us from
ourselves.
Christ teaches from John 3:
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that
whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For
God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to
save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not
condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already
because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved
darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone
who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for
fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth
comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has
done has been done through God."
May God add His blessings to the writing of His Word here on Usenet,
in Christ's holy name.
Amen.
You remain in my prayers, dear Mano whom I love.
Please consider the following to save yourself:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I22222129
Servant to the humblest person in the universe,
Andrew
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