One day I was mindlessly scrolling through TikTok lives like a lot of people do; and I came across one that just said “I’m an athiest, ask me a question.” Usually, I would just scroll past videos like that because I honestly think a lot of those are toxic and are just there to start arguments; but for some reason I stayed.
The guy doing the live was speaking to someone else who had joined. I was reading comments and responding to some basic questions. Keep in mind that I am no where near an expert when it comes to God and the Bible- but these were actually answers I knew so I stayed and was having a pretty good conversation with others in the comments.
The fall of mankind/Adam and Eve had come up. There was one question that I didn’t have an answer to.
“Why are we paying for a sin we didn’t commit”
As I was thinking about it the comment section began to flood with people saying how God was unjust, false, evil etc. This twisted my heart a bit. I started to get angry because they were not speaking of the God I know and love.
I ended up praying about it and funny enough I got an answer next day through scripture and sermons’. Adam was given blessings and responsibilities in the Garden of Eden. God gave Adam one single command – do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If Adam followed God’s law; life would flourish; if he broke that covenant then death would enter the world.
“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” Romans 5:12
Satan knew what he was doing when he entered the Garden as a serpent. We are made in the image of God. Satan is furious with God for casting him out of heaven for trying to be equal to his creator. So he tempted Eve with the same sin that he had fallen from heaven for – pride; for the idea that she would be equal to God.
” And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day that ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
-Genesis 3:4-5
Now, God gave the direct command to Adam- not Eve. So when Eve offered the fruit to Adam and he ate it, that is when the covenant was broken and also why Adam is ‘at fault’ for the fall of mankind.
God has laws, like a just and righteous God he follows the laws himself; and in his law, death is the consequence of sin and disobedience.
(side note) This is why I believe when Adam and Eve were in the garden and covered themselves with fig leaves after eating the fruit, God made ‘coats of skins’ for Adam and Eve to wear. That disobedience needed to result in the shedding of blood and death. Someone or something with flesh had to pay for that sin. (Genesis 3:21)
The knowledge of evil brought sin into the world and cursed us, running through our bloodline.
Luckily God created a work around for Adam’s fall for listening to his wife – Jesus dying on the cross. God knew that no one on this earth would make it to heaven because we now had the incapability of perfection.
So he sent the one person who could be perfect in the cursed flesh to pay for our sins. Since the punishment for sin is death- Jesus was born in the same bloodline, lived a perfect life, died on the cross and was resurrected three days later. Jesus had paid for our debt we just had to accept it.
It didn’t break our curse, but it gave us a way to one day be perfect through faith and prayer.
So let me put this in a scenerio that some people might understand a little better.
Imagine this: You have an uncle Steve, he got kicked out of your grandpa’s house for doing a drug that causes a disease that never leaves your system. Steve ended up going into your home and tricked your father into consuming this drug too.
Over time, the disease gets worse. This disease leads to a death so painful it is hard to even comprehend. When your father had you, it had passed down and now you had it. So your grandfather offers you and everyone else carrying this disease a free and natural medicine that helps with the symptoms of this drug.
This medicine does not cure the disease, but it makes the symptoms manageable enough that you can now live without the worry of a painful death.
Then I want you to imagine people with this same disease calling your grandfather evil for letting you choose to take this medicine he provided for you. They tell you that there is nothing wrong with you. That the ‘medicine doesn’t work’ even though you can see the improvement of your symptoms with the meds grandpa offers.
They say this drug cant lead to destruction because it makes you feel good. They ask you where is the ‘proof’ so when your experience doesn’t satisfy them, they say that its not enough.
They start criticize those who choose to take it and recommend this medication to others. They say ‘why would your grandpa let you choose to take the medicine instead of making you if he knew the drug lead to death?’
Now, grandpa believes in free will- because forcing someone to do something isn’t love, its control. He allows the ones he loves to take the medicine by choice; and though hes heartbroken knowing the people who reject his offer will only live in happiness temporarily, he allows their choice.
Now, your uncle; who is the originator of this disease and refuses the medicine your grandfather offers; is convincing others this disease considered ‘normal.’ He makes it seem like death is so much better anyways. He’s continuing to do this so when he dies, he wont be alone and he gets to hurt your grandfather in the process.
When I hear people talk about God like this it occours to me that they have never tried or wanted to know or understand him. They judge when in reality they just don’t understand him.
I want to end this with – The only one who truly understands God is God. The bible is always so ‘misinterpreted’ because the Holy Spirit of God needs to be within you to understand it. He provided us with everything we need. We just have to put our phones down to read it.
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