The concept of original sin and has to do with the fact that man , the only creature with the capacity for free will, complex multiple choices and the inevitable poor choices made by all at some point would be alienated from a loving creator. It would only be through the acceptance of Christ and his purifying sacrifice that man in his imperfection might hope to be saved and brought to the Creator. The Genesis stories are symbolic meant to be understood by everyone that God created everything. Do fundamentalists really believe that Paradise was lost by eating an apple?
Nothing in the account suggests an apple!
There is far more to it than original sin.
The “kinsman redeemer” principle cannot tolerate but one line of man.
Logic also looks to a single line, since multiple lines would defeat all the rest of the book.
How else could Noah be “perfect in his generations?”
How else could Yeshua have been the new Adam?
One could pose these kinds of questions for days on end, just reading the Bible.
Why wouldn’t I believe it? Jesus did. Who are you-—who is any man-—to contradict Him & to say we should believe differently?
Your version is all conjecture, all dreamed up by men who couldn’t bring their intellectual, enlightened selves to believe the Scriptural account.
Genesis is a gift given to us by God. He related to us in simple terms His stunning act of creation. Why bother twisting oneself into a pretzel to try and make it mean something else when it’s THERE?
Jesus confirmed it. The Lord referred to Genesis as historical fact. Was He wrong? Mistaken?
Nope.
And I don’t know where on earth you got the idea the fruit of the tree was an apple. Seriously? I’ve only ever heard that from people who never opened a Bible. Wow...very strange.
I agree with you, and frankly I’m surprised at the Catholic response here.