Beautiful Post Arikm7! :D I tried to explain in another thread that G-d hates human sacrifices per Torah. Even the idea of laying down one's life for the sole purpose to mediate between G-d and man is the same thing my ancestors did when the Druid priest would lay down his life as a sacrifice for the tribe to serve as a mediator and ambassador.

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humanity should now be "cured" of this innate propensity towards sin since Jeesus filled the bill. We would see humanity in a much better state because if sin entered to Adam's descendants through no will of their own (as they are now "born with it";) , then Jeesus' death should be the cure IN THE EXACT SAME MANNER IF HE IS AS PAUL SAYS "THE SECOND ADAM". This means, that man really doesn't sin anymore as Jeesus cured human nature. But we have seen this is NOT the case! And this cure cannot simply be a matter of faith or belief. No one believed in Adam to "have" sin part of their nature, so likewise, no one should have to believe in Jeesus to have the cure. Otherwise, it's really not a cure on humanity, but a selective "inoculation". But xians, like all humans, still sin. So Jeesus did NOT make the cure in the nature and manner with which apparently Adam "infected" humanity. Unless he cures the nature of humanity, then he did not effect a cure. All you're left with is a psychological/religious "belief", not an actuality.


This would be the logical outcome of Jsus as the last Adam being that human DNA would have a cure to sin being his sacrifice. However, let's look at the American Standard Version: 1 Corinthians 15:42-54--42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
44 it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
45 So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46 Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.


Paul pretty much says that flesh and blood won't inherit the Kingdom of G-d because it is corrupt. It looks as though to say that G-d actually can't stand the very flesh of mankind. Kinda makes a person wonder if all of creation was in a spiritual plane to start with and Adam's sin caused it the universe to drop into a physical plane. In other words, G-d has to change this human container into something different. The First Adam sinned therefore he passed onto mankind the ability to sin. Adam had corrupted the flesh of all mankind and died spiritually. The Last Adam, being Jsus, was suppose to bring spiritual life back to those who accepted him. However, Paul says that the corruption continues until the time of death or when the human container is transformed into a new sort of being whom G-d can look upon. If Jsus was the life giving spirit (giving spiritual life back to humans) then the effects of sin would have begun a reversal over the centuries. If Adams one sin can cause all sorts of damage then it would be safe to assume that the Last Adam should have cured mankind by now and the knowledge of G-d would have been planetary. On the other hand, we could also say that sin is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. It continues to be passed on from one generation to another despite what Jsus did. One person here or another person there who gets their spirit resurrected by Jsus and if they are lucky they will see G-d after death. That is if they had suffered over and above like Jsus. It is not enough to have a "New Spirit," A person has to suffer and have tribulation to shake off the sin nature. Of all creatures on earth, it is most terrible to be human. We have to prove ourselves though believing and that has to be tried as though in a furnace of fire.

1 Peter 1:7--7 that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Joh