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Only one that Eve ate changed the destiny of mankind. |
https://www.facebook.com/sing.f.lau/posts/2106750463826
October 15, 2011
This meme has been making its round in the
cyberspace, and I have seen it many times. So, I thought I would comment on it.
I don't know who the author is but so many
are happy to pass it around, maybe just as a joke. Sometimes hard truth is
stated unconsciously in the jokes.
Concerning the joke above, it indicates that
people actually believe Eve eating the forbidden fruit story - maybe only when
they make jokes.
Eve and her eating the forbidden fruit
presupposes the factual and historical creation, and the subsequent fall of
mankind in his representative head, Adam. (Afterall, both Newton and iSteve are
historical realities too)
Many would hate and curse if the IMPLICATIONS
- of Eve eating of the forbidden fruit and then giving it to Adam to eat - are
spelt out!
Actually, Eve eating the fruit did not change
the world. It was Adam eating the forbidden fruit that changed the world.
Here it is, stated plainly in Romans 5:
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into
the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all
have sinned:
13 (For until the law sin was in the world:
but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to
Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s
transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
15 But not as the offence, so also is the
free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace
of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded
unto many.
16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so
is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is
of many offences unto justification.
17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned
by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of
righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore as by the offence of one
judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of
one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were
made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Steve Jobs ended with iDied.
Jesus Christ ended with iLive.
And Eve, the 'mother of all living' points us
to Him who declares, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that
believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live."
