Okay. What's the answer within the Bible?
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God created Adam and Eve, with generative powers, and authority to use it.
They had the prospect of living forever, provided they obeyed the command not to eat of the tree God put restrictions on - "Do not touch or eat fruit from this tree, otherwise you will die."
Adam and Eve disobeyed.
God did not alter things, like a weak judge who can be bribed. He kept his word, demonstrating that he lives by his own standards of justice, and righteousness. Deuteronomy 32:4, 5
He also did not take away their generative powers, like a weak ruler, who cannot take action to repair a problem that is foreseen.
So Adam and Eve had offspring that inherited a defect - that is a body that doesn't function perfectly. It does not function at its full potential. instead it breaks down deteriorates until finally it shuts down - dies.
This is in harmony with what God had truthfully stated, showing that it wasn't the fruit that have some magical power, that killed Adam and Eve, but disobedience, which cut them off from their life source. Disobedience brings forth death.
This was later recorded as a fact. Deuteronomy 30:19, 20; Romans 5:12; 6:23; James 1:13-15
So let's follow the process:- Jehovah is the source of life. Sin cuts one off from that source. The only way to reconnect to that source is to remove sin.
With the snap of his finger? No. This is no magic show.
This is why Jesus was necessary.
Consider an illustration:
A clothes iron when connected to a power source heats up. Of course that heat is regulated as the iron is used. When the iron is plugged out, the iron doesn't instantly lose its heat, bu it gradually loses it, until it is cold - dead no use to our clothes.
The wages of sin is death - the final result. That process started with Adam's sin, and now all his offspring are bound to that process - deteriorating to death.
Jesus took the place of Adam's offspring He took our sin upon himself, and died in our place. Isaiah 53:5
But he was pierced for our transgression; He was crushed for our errors. He bore the punishment for our peace, And because of his wounds we were healed.
Matthew 1:21; 20:28; Romans 4:25; 5:19; Colossians 1:19, 20; 1 Peter 2:23, 24
Only a perfect man can do this, because he is not himself in the process Adam started. Psalm 49:7, 8
So
by means of Christ's death God stopped the process of sin, in two ways.
1. Spiritually
a. Because Christ sacrificed (the ransom) his life for Adam's offspring, God could now forgive - blot out - wipe away - cast off, their sins.
b. Because Christ sacrificed (the ransom) his life for Adam's offspring, God could now allow Adam's offspring to reconnect to him - have a relationship as his children.
2. Physically
Because Christ sacrificed (the ransom) his life for Adam's offspring, God will bring back the dead whose sins he has blotted out; reverse the process of death; end death permanently. Hosea 13:14; Isaiah 25:8; 1 Corinthians 15:53-57; Revelation 20:12-14
This highlights God's abundant mercy, and love.
The
video I presented earlier gave a fitting illustration.
EDIT
When one rejects Christ sacrifice, they are really choosing death, which they will have - with no hope of ever seeing life again.
