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Hippy-dippy liberal false Christians love to water down Christianity beyond recognition to make it fit modern secular notions. One of their favorite ways of doing so is to say that large sections of the Old Testament, including all of Genesis, are allegories. The problem is that, according to the Bible itself, salvation is conditioned on a literal acceptance of the Old Testament, going back to the first human being, Adam.
First, we must reject any doctrine that implies that Our Lord died in vain:
Galatians 2:21: I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
We must therefore accept the reason why Christ had to come in the first place:
Romans 5:14, 18-19: 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. * * * 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. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
In other words, it was a literal sin committed by a literal Adam, clearly identified as "one man," that required Christ to die for our salvation. If you do not believe in a literal sin committed by one man, a literal Adam, you reject the reason why Christ had to come. If you reject that reason, the only other possibility is that Christ died in vain. If you believe that Christ died in vain, you don't believe in Him, and if you don't believe in Him, you are hellbound:
John 3:18: He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Believing in Christ doesn't mean just accepting that He exists. The Pharisees didn't dispute His existence.
"But, Pastor," one might object, "why can't we believe in an allegorical Adam and still accept Christ's gift of salvation?" The answer is that the passage from Romans quoted above clearly talks about a literal Adam. Real people do not agree to die agonizing deaths for the sake of an allegory. To put it another way, if you can believe that Adam was an allegory, how can you consistently argue that Christ wasn't just an allegory as well?
First, we must reject any doctrine that implies that Our Lord died in vain:
Galatians 2:21: I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
We must therefore accept the reason why Christ had to come in the first place:
Romans 5:14, 18-19: 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. * * * 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. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
In other words, it was a literal sin committed by a literal Adam, clearly identified as "one man," that required Christ to die for our salvation. If you do not believe in a literal sin committed by one man, a literal Adam, you reject the reason why Christ had to come. If you reject that reason, the only other possibility is that Christ died in vain. If you believe that Christ died in vain, you don't believe in Him, and if you don't believe in Him, you are hellbound:
John 3:18: He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Believing in Christ doesn't mean just accepting that He exists. The Pharisees didn't dispute His existence.
"But, Pastor," one might object, "why can't we believe in an allegorical Adam and still accept Christ's gift of salvation?" The answer is that the passage from Romans quoted above clearly talks about a literal Adam. Real people do not agree to die agonizing deaths for the sake of an allegory. To put it another way, if you can believe that Adam was an allegory, how can you consistently argue that Christ wasn't just an allegory as well?
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