Hello John, thanks for responding.

You said:

“Maybe next time, you can move beyond the 5th grade Baptist Sunday school explanations and examples.”

My friend, do not disparage Sunday school lessons! So many essential life lessons and skills can be learned in those class rooms.

Nevertheless, I understand where you’re coming from. Let’s dig deep into your questions.

You said:

“If Jesus was fully human — then it was human sacrifice.”

Human sacrifice implies that the victim is unwilling.

Jesus was willing.

Jesus stated directly, “No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again” (John 10:18).

If a firefighter rushes into a burning house to save a child, knowing he’s not likely to emerge alive, is that human sacrifice?

It’s certainly a sacrifice — the firefighter is laying down his life to save another.

But he’s not being sacrificed by anyone.

He’s choosing to lay his life down for the sake of another.

You said:

“If Jesus was fully God, then the Bible lies — it says Gods always has and always will live forever.”

Jesus is, and the Bible does say that God lives forever.

And Jesus never stopped existing.

Jesus’ death on the Cross didn’t end Jesus’ existence. He promised the thief on the Cross that Jesus would take him to Paradise that very day.

Only Jesus’ flesh perished. Jesus’ soul/spirit continued living and existing.

Jesus continued right on living, to use your word. Jesus could still travel to Paradise, take the man with him, and raise His flesh back to life again a few days later. Jesus was alive and active while His flesh was dead.

You said:

“Also, was Adam so powerful (more powerful than Jesus?) that he could cause the downfall of all mankind and people would be born with the “sin of Adam” to the point of eternal torment because of “Adam’s sin”?”

God doesn’t punish anyone with eternal torment for Adam’s sin.

Try to find any verse in the Bible — any verse anywhere — that says God punishes us with eternal torment for Adam’s sin. You won’t find it.

Each person suffers the punishment for their own sin. Each person requires forgiveness for their own sin, not Adam’s.

Your sin might affect others. Sins might be visited to the “third and fourth generation” — in other words, the furthest extent of those alive, who are affected by their grandfather’s and great-grandfather’s sin. If grandfather was an alcoholic, his generation (his wife), his second generation (his kids), and his third generation (grandchildren) are all affected by his sin. In this way, his sin is “visited” upon them.

But never are his wife, kids, or grandkids punished for his sin. He bears the punishment himself.