Anyone who has bothered to read anything about the Tribes of Israel knows that Jesus did NOT come to redeem humanity for the sin of Adam, per se, but the sin of David.
Adam, like Lucifer, wanted to "be like God," so the Christian will tell you. But David, by setting himself up as the King of the Jews (and then later rewriting this fact), was always understood by the early Jews to be the thing that ultimately broke the covenant that the Jews had with their God.
The Catholic Church has only ever hidden this fact from their congregation, because to admit that Christ came to destroy the man made temples that David had built (via his son), which included the institutional temples that included the Sanhedrin and those power structures that were no less about power, and no less corrupt, as the Catholic Church, and every other "religious" institution today, was to put itself in the very same position that the Sanhedrin was in when Christ began to point this out.
That, of course, is why the Sanhedrin murdered Christ. They murdered him, because he was no different than Gandhi, or Martin Luther King, or so many others, who have all stood up to the evil of power. This is why Paul Tillich called "all institutions inherently demonic," even as Catholics insist their own is better than the rest, which is what everyone thinks about their favorite institution.
The story of Adam, then, like the story of Lucifer, are simply different renditions of the sin of David, in his desire to seize a throne of a people who, as part of their covenant with their God, knew they could have "no other Gods before" their own. To appoint a king was to do just that, as the emperors and rulers of those days were always understood to be "gods," of one sort or another.
Adam, like Lucifer, wanted to "be like God," so the Christian will tell you. But David, by setting himself up as the King of the Jews (and then later rewriting this fact), was always understood by the early Jews to be the thing that ultimately broke the covenant that the Jews had with their God.
The Catholic Church has only ever hidden this fact from their congregation, because to admit that Christ came to destroy the man made temples that David had built (via his son), which included the institutional temples that included the Sanhedrin and those power structures that were no less about power, and no less corrupt, as the Catholic Church, and every other "religious" institution today, was to put itself in the very same position that the Sanhedrin was in when Christ began to point this out.
That, of course, is why the Sanhedrin murdered Christ. They murdered him, because he was no different than Gandhi, or Martin Luther King, or so many others, who have all stood up to the evil of power. This is why Paul Tillich called "all institutions inherently demonic," even as Catholics insist their own is better than the rest, which is what everyone thinks about their favorite institution.
The story of Adam, then, like the story of Lucifer, are simply different renditions of the sin of David, in his desire to seize a throne of a people who, as part of their covenant with their God, knew they could have "no other Gods before" their own. To appoint a king was to do just that, as the emperors and rulers of those days were always understood to be "gods," of one sort or another.
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