In describing a person who performs actions that are admired and appreciated by society we often use the word "hero"*.
Psychologists and philosophers have had many debates on what constitutes a hero. Usually they take three factors into account: 1) the deed performed. 2) the motivation for its peformance and 3) the reward for it's performance.
But really what makes a person a hero is none of these because in most cases it's not what the hero has done which makes him a hero, neither is it what has motivated him and often not the reward.
In fact what makes a person a hero is what he has sacrificed in order to do the thing for which he is admired.
Most heros have sacrificed something important to them on their way to becoming a hero; some have sacrificed wealth, others family, nourishment, pleasure etc. but the greatest sacrifice is considered to be life.
But there is one thing for sure; a person cannot sacrifice something he doesn't have. He can sacrifice life because he has life.
Therefore, although some heros have sacrificed their lives only one hero in all of history could have sacrificed something much more important than life and that is everlasting life - immortality- eternity.
That sacrifice was made by Adam. He was the only one who ever had immortality and he sacrificed it.
Greater still he sacrificed immortality for all mankind. His sacrifice of immortality brought death into the world. The greatest problem facing mankind.
Without Adam's sacrifice of immortality we would have been immortal. But without it we wouldn't have come into existence.
Instead of admiring Adam for the sacrifice he made to bestow life on us, however we malign him as the originator of sin, the one who robbed man of eternal life, forgetting that in fact he besowed life on man.
Religion has been insisting on this sin and exists as a way to regain immortality, which is deception.
Nevertheless religion's entire function since then has been to regain immortality. It harps on this "blessed" task and even takes on the job of judging people to damnation if they don't follow religious ideas.
In our avid search for ways of atoning for Adam's "sin" we don't take the trouble to examine the heroic act he performed and how it actually brought us into life and taught us the importance of love of one another, most of all the account of Adam and Eve is a lesson that teaches us to make tremendous efforts to love our spouses especially for the husband to love his wife.
The husband must be as prepared as Adam was in sacrificing immortality when it comes to loving a woman. Through this love human beings are brought into the world.
Adam is not only the first man. He is also the first hero because he brought marital love into the world and sacrificed eternity to do it.
*Wherever the masculine is used it refers also to the feminine
.
Psychologists and philosophers have had many debates on what constitutes a hero. Usually they take three factors into account: 1) the deed performed. 2) the motivation for its peformance and 3) the reward for it's performance.
But really what makes a person a hero is none of these because in most cases it's not what the hero has done which makes him a hero, neither is it what has motivated him and often not the reward.
In fact what makes a person a hero is what he has sacrificed in order to do the thing for which he is admired.
Most heros have sacrificed something important to them on their way to becoming a hero; some have sacrificed wealth, others family, nourishment, pleasure etc. but the greatest sacrifice is considered to be life.
But there is one thing for sure; a person cannot sacrifice something he doesn't have. He can sacrifice life because he has life.
Therefore, although some heros have sacrificed their lives only one hero in all of history could have sacrificed something much more important than life and that is everlasting life - immortality- eternity.
That sacrifice was made by Adam. He was the only one who ever had immortality and he sacrificed it.
Greater still he sacrificed immortality for all mankind. His sacrifice of immortality brought death into the world. The greatest problem facing mankind.
Without Adam's sacrifice of immortality we would have been immortal. But without it we wouldn't have come into existence.
Instead of admiring Adam for the sacrifice he made to bestow life on us, however we malign him as the originator of sin, the one who robbed man of eternal life, forgetting that in fact he besowed life on man.
Religion has been insisting on this sin and exists as a way to regain immortality, which is deception.
Nevertheless religion's entire function since then has been to regain immortality. It harps on this "blessed" task and even takes on the job of judging people to damnation if they don't follow religious ideas.
In our avid search for ways of atoning for Adam's "sin" we don't take the trouble to examine the heroic act he performed and how it actually brought us into life and taught us the importance of love of one another, most of all the account of Adam and Eve is a lesson that teaches us to make tremendous efforts to love our spouses especially for the husband to love his wife.
The husband must be as prepared as Adam was in sacrificing immortality when it comes to loving a woman. Through this love human beings are brought into the world.
Adam is not only the first man. He is also the first hero because he brought marital love into the world and sacrificed eternity to do it.
*Wherever the masculine is used it refers also to the feminine
.
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