FAQ-09: HOW CAN ANYONE TAKE ON OUR GUILT?

Muslims often ask how someone can take on the price of another, or the guilt of another, as this would be unjust...and on face value this does look unjust. There are two references in the Qur&which confront the seeming injustice of someone taking on the guilt of another; Surahs 6:164 and 53:38. These two verses attack the notion that God can take on our sin on the cross, or that we are imputed with Adam and Eve&sin. Yet, what will Muslims do with Surah 7:24 which says that Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden, which is situated in space, and thrown down to earth. The fact that none of us are up in that garden now, proves that we are all imputed with Adam and Eve&sin. Why is it that no one has the same choice that Adam and Eve had, and are not tested the same way as them, but are all automatically born already on earth? It&obvious that the writers of the Qur&borrowed this story from the Bible, but had no idea of the meaning of the story, something you should never do, because the Biblical stories are impregnated with theology, proving that original sin is both in the Bible and the Qur’an. So, why are the Muslims even asking this question…unless they also ask the same question of the Qur’an? Furthermore, what about Surah 4:157, where there is a crucifixion; yet, the man on the cross is not Issa? So, someone else was on the cross dying for him, and thus, paying the price for Issa, which is not only unjust, but also contradicts Surahs 6:164 and 53:38! In...