Happy Easter everyone here. I am amazed that this thread is still running despite the threat of immanent closure - unlike some that are set to close in 10 years. You definitely were not in for the 5minute argument Argument - Monty Python - YouTube
Evolution actually eliminates selfish frameworks unless they are system compatible. As I explained elsewhere,survival fitness is the ability to love thy neighbour like thyself, e.g. those you call your own like siblings,parents or children. This way it develops complex interactive systems with high complexity, interdependency and redundancy. The problem of sin has always been the assumed selfishness of the self aware, manifested in the act of rejecting authority over the self in the fall.
The heritability of sin comes from the procreation as a selfish act. For a man to be born free if sin does not mean to be born against the will of man, but in obedience to the will of God. In Jesus this would have been fulfilled in Mary being impregnated by a roman soldier with the intention of her and the child to be killed by her own folks if she did not kill herself before hand. Modern Society still believes that in those cases at least the child is worth killing as it does not comply with human wishful existence, and that even without the problem of living under military occupation where those acts are a weapon against the oppressed population, as shown for example in the Kossovo conflict Rape victims' babies pay the price of war | World news | The Guardian
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To marry a pregnant woman and rear a child that was clearly not conceived in marriage under such circumstances was truly an act of turning the word of God flesh,e.g. the command to love thy neighbour like thyself". It clearly would have needed the visitation of the wife and husband by the holy spirit in order to do so and if such an explanation of how the word of God turned flesh is offensive to us or feels it would “devalue” Jesus we should as ourself “why”. Is it because it does not agree with our wishful thinking? Would it devalue Mary as being a victim of rape opposed to the recepticle of an act of magic? Would we think God cruel to use such a brutal method for creating his son instead of adoring his work of magic in the fact that his word can turn an act of hate and oppression into a beacon of love and hope. And if that conception story would be too gruesome for us to accept, than why would we find the way God allowed Jesus to be killed acceptable - in fact even required to satisfy Gods need? No wonder that atheist community has a field day when debating us on the God of our wishful thinking.
So I wish us all a reflective Easter whilst in lockdown. May we all reflect on Christ’s way to finish with a song. In a situation that looked so gloom he still encouraged us to sing a song. Whilst a lot of people think of “always look at the bright side of life” Jesus was way ahead of them, but in their religiophobia they just could not see it. Psalm 22 was a much more sombre choice appropriate to the seriousness of the situation to spell out that even if we think God has forsaken us, it is only because we do not understand his ways, but that when we will, it will lead us to praise him for generations to come. And that is the truly bright side, to be thankful to God and live in him again.