
14 Jun 2021
[Śrī Anil asked: One of the teachings of the Christianity is the belief that sin entered into humanity through Adam. Jesus came to redeem the fallen humanity through His death—by shedding His pure blood. In an online discussion, a person asked that when redemption required pure blood, why did God come so late as Jesus? Had Jesus died right after Adam sinned, it would have been fine. Why did He delay and allow sin to spread in the world?]
Swami replied: You should not take everything in the literal sense. The inner sense must be grasped. The deep sense is always expressed in a simple way so that it can be conveniently understood by the majority of the common people. The sin of Adam and Eve entering humanity must be taken in the inner sense. It means that humanity has always been committing sins from the beginning, due to its inherent nature. This is the actual sense and this concept is explained as the sin of first couple entering into the whole of humanity. If you make the mistake of taking the very first concept too literally, then millions of such foolish questions about a variety of concepts appear. One thing is to be clearly understood: the sin committed by one soul cannot enter into another soul.
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