The whole sacrificial arrangement of the Mosaic Law is based upon redemption through sacrifice. Add to this the number of prophecies which foretold a coming one that would sacrifice for the sins and transgressions of others. Isaiah 53 is but one example: "Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgression, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brough us peace was upon him and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter... For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken...."
How could the prophecies be any clearer than this?
I guess you didn't read my previous posts!
If you rub the magic lamp a genie will appear; what could be any clearer? Except there is no lamp and no genie.
It doesn't matter what is written in an ancient story if the story is make-believe and makes no sense whatsoever.
My complaint is that nobody (apparently you as well) bothers to examine each element step by step and see if it really makes the sense everybody claims it makes.
In a nutshell:
GOD made man the way man was. GOD did not make man equal to himself. By failing to make man equal to himself he built a FLAW into man. Man wanted TO BE LIKE his father knowning good and bad. (i.e. Experiencing what good was and what bad was in a meaningful way.)
GOD did not allow man to be born. A baby is held, suckeled at his mother's breast, sung to, cuddled, told stories, experiences reality and is instructed as to the actual meaning of life step by step.
MAN (Adam and Eve both) was totally without this nurturing instruction. Without life experience and wanting to be like his father, God; Man did the only intelligent thing available to him to gain this opportunity.
NOW WHAT HAPPENS?
MAN (Adam and Eve) is held accountable for NOT BEING LIKE GOD! God is perfect and man is not. Simple as that.
However, God is now angry about the human nature being less than the divine nature and holds man in a state of cursedness which alienates him and condemns him to gradual deterioration unto death.
Worse, however, by not ending man's life with a death sentence (JUST AS HE WARNED HE WOULD DO) God allowed man to mate with his wife and start off a chain of human refugees held equally accountable for what their parents did even though they did nothing of themselves in asking to be born into such a state.
THIS IS GOD'S JUSTICE?
The plan which supposedly follows is a Rube Goldberg cartoon rescue operation when all that was ever necessary was one of two things:
1.End Adam and Eve's life as promised, thus, terminating the possibility of offspring from arising who would be regarded as equally offensive.
2.Start off each child born with a clean slate and let each stand or fall by their own actions.
However, ONLY ADAM (and his wife, EVE) was made without being born!
JESUS can never be Adam's equivalent. Jesus was gestated in a woman's womb and nurtured and cherished by a family who allowed him to grow and play and engage his fellow creatures before being presented with a life or death decision requiring experience.
Think about these things; don't just bite them off and swallow them whole.
ADAM was the father of the human race (we are told) and JESUS was the second Adam.
WHO WAS THE SECOND EVE???
