Adam and Eve Ruined Everything for Us. How Is That Fair?

[@kathyhartson9390]

When our youngest son was about 6 years old, he asked me this; “Mom, should we be mad at Adam and Eve?” I thought that was a profound thought for a 6 year old! Unfortunately, our son passed away unexpectedly 4 months ago, at the age of 30. Gosh, if he were here today, I would share this video with him. Thank you, Fr. Mike for your videos. You done more for me than you’ll ever know. And, get well soon! God Bless 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@mph1ish]

I'm so sorry for your loss 😥 . May your son rest in peace, and may The Lord comfort you in your grief. 🙏

[@mattjw16]

So sorry for your loss! My prayers are with you and your family 🙏🏻

[@salvist7717]

I'm sorry for your loss and his spirit will always be with you and your family and you will be together again when your time comes.

[@jaysea2969]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

[@margaretannwoods4869]

Get better Father Mike!! Praying for you.

[@LoriJMarshall]

I cried when I heard your words today. I am new in my faith journey and I don’t like the term original sin for the exact reason you explained. When you rephrased it as original wound the tears welled in my eyes. God answers prayers through you. Bless you. Be well. Thank you. 🙏

[@marildatulina9296]

Aww beautiful! Welcome to the journey home fellow pilgrim in faith

[@simonslater9024]

Please watch the warning or illumination of conscience by Christine Watkins. The Papacy can not be destroyed. Don’t call protestant’s Christian! (there’s ONLY ONE CHURCH). Following padre Pio. Fatima 1917. Garabandal 1961-65. Guadalupe 1531. I ask my guardian to help you with yours. God bless.

[@ProjectMysticApostolate]

Fr. Mike is like the big brother I never had. Hugs for you Fr. Mike. God bless. 🙏

[@cindyb5065]

I could listen to Fr Mike talk all day and still stay interested. I always understand what his topic is in a new or better way. Thank you Father Mike and I pray you recover quickly.

[@itzyaboielliot5403]

what about francuim??

[@martyvestal1222]

Get well soon, Fr Mike! When I am sick, I look sick, you don’t!! ❤️🙏✝️

[@kelkabot]

I've always figured that if Adam and Eve hadn't handed me original sin, I would have found a way to do it to myself.

[@sandstorm7768]

Exactly. It takes a lot of pride to think we wouldn't have made their choice, especially when we eat forbidden fruits every day. ❤️✌️

[@damienschwass9354]

@@sandstorm7768in which case god must have designed Adam, Eve and all of us that way. Kind of derails the story doesn’t it?

[@estelita1111]

@@damienschwass9354I think the problem is our free will…which we must possess to truly love

[@damienschwass9354]

@@estelita1111 so god chose to give us this “problem” of free will and punishes us when it goes wrong which, by the sounds of it, was an inevitable consequence… meaning the omniscient deity must have known as much. Punishing us for the problem he knowingly and willingly gave us, in other words. This is just one of a number of problems with the story of original sin and why the free will defence makes it worse.

[@masscantbecreatedordestroy8868]

⁠@@damienschwass9354You do present a tough question. Why would God create us, knowing that we would fall to original sin? Although it’s challenging, and potentially impossible, to give a concrete answer as this would require divine intervention, God is omniscient and thus has planned out his purpose for this human situation. You ignore the lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who took away the sins from Adam and Eve. Reading Scripture carefully, we are led to the following conclusions: 1. The fall of mankind was foreknown by God. 2. The crucifixion of Christ, the atonement for God’s elect, was foreordained by God. 3. All people will one day glorify God (Psalm 86:9), and God purposes “to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ” (Ephesians 1:10). The point I’m trying to make is that God his has own timeline, and we cannot nor should not try to plan or decipher God’s intentions for this as it is a waste of time and hubris to think we can.

[@MGlubka]

Even though you became sick, I am sure it was so worth it to get to spend some quality time with your family! Life is not fair in many ways, but you've taught me that as long as we accept God's grace and mercy and receive reconciliation, our sins do not matter. If we love and choose Him, we will get to spend eternity in heaven with Him. God has made it so worth it! Thanks, Father Mike.

[@kelkabot]

Fr. Mike has really helped heal a lot of the abuse I experienced at the hands of my older brother, since he is such an older brother figure for me (and I'm sure a lot of us). Thank you for your wise and kind words, Fr. Mike!

[@hoosiermomma5]

Whoever edited in the Fr Mark Mary screen drop...that was absolutely priceless!! I had to rewind it and watch again I laughed so hard. Perfect timing

[@bigdaddydiesel5520]

Yeah that was great! lol

[@johnscanlan9335]

Father - As a born and raised Roman Catholic, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about the whole concept of Original Sin. And after many years of contemplation I have actually come to the conclusion that Original Sin is actually, like everything else from Our Father in Heaven, a great gift that we almost couldn't live without! If one doesn't have a profound sense of one's own deeply flawed nature, there's virtually no logical incentive to do anything to improve oneself and the environment in which we live.

[@meganbrennan454]

I think of Original Sin like an inherited genetic mutation. It predisposes you to sickness, but ultimately how you choose to live determines if you get it. Just because we have the sickness from our parents Adam and Eve doesn’t mean we have to choose to worsen it through sin, but we do that on our own.

[@jeremiahguard11]

I pray that nobody in the world gets trapped into bad things and sin and I pray we can all stay away from negativity

[@kyleangelsionelo5314]

Hello Fr. Mike. I am grateful to still find you here. I've been through a lot, and most of the time I remember you and your advice based on the Scripture. It was so hard for me to keep up. Everything constantly changes. But you are always there. It's like a living proof that God never stops fighting for me and seeking for me. Thank you for your consistency, Father. You are such an inspiration.

[@tutsomtz]

Thank you Father Mike! God bless you, hope you feel better

[@Richie016]

listening to the word of God ensures spiritual wellness, praised be Jesus Christ, lord, and savior. Amen✝

[@thecapecodder]

Getting over the flu myself! Praise Jesus in all things!!!!

[@purryegbert8609]

The only reason why I can accept this difficult message is because God has shown his realness in my life. I pray for all who struggle with this message and pray that they find Gods love. Amen.

[@sandstorm7768]

It's hard to accept but it's important to realize that not one of us is perfect enough to have avoided that mistake, only Jesus is. And isn't it amazing that He so graciously came to Earth to reunite us with the Father ❤

[@Bigchilezlife]

You’ll be better Fr.Mike! And sin is the cause of the devil! But God gave us free will to choose but unfortunately this world is corrupt and I pray that we can have mankind be at peace and unity in God instead of suffering

[@MotherNature101]

I could listen to you all day and never get bored. You have taught me a whole lot of things, and I love it because I love learning about the faith more deeply. I hope and pray you feel better soon, Father Mike. 😊

[@diannefajardo8817]

Hope you feel better soon, Fr. Mike. Thank you for sharing this great message.

[@carolschneider7375]

Father Mike get well and thank you❤

[@WillowTree885]

Thank you Father for that beautiful reminder of divine love for Gods children.

[@R_Thomp]

Thank you Father. Please get well soon, we need you!

[@johannaraisch4051]

Praying for you Fr Mike. Feel better soon.

[@143mschrag]

Praise be to God forever❣️ Take great care of yourself Fr. Mike. I am continually praying for all. God Bless 🙏🏻

[@mya5980]

Gosh I'm sorry to see you sick, but you should rest so you can resume after your body has replenished your immune system. Praying for you 🙏🏼 and God bless you Fr. Mike. I LOVE FR. BENEDICT May he rest in Peace with all the Saints in Heaven ✝️🙏🏼🛐

[@himaya6449]

Get well soon Fr. Mike 😇

[@samuelmachado7791]

You encourage the youth all around the globe. We love you!!

[@mgvilaca]

You're the coolest priest ever

[@paulacevedo8814]

Praise to God and Jesus Christ😇🙏❤

[@fannyjosefinapachecochacon9491]

🙏 Please take care . . . I'm praying for you to feel better soon 🙏

[@DawnLapka]

We're born sick. How true! Grace saves us. Feel better soon, Father Mike.

[@TheFunfolks]

We're good but broken and will not know if we are saved until we die!!!!

[@jimperry4420]

Congratulations on 899k subscribers. You’re reaching a lot of people. Thanks.

[@MatthewPoerschmann]

Praise The Lord for father Mike.

[@mariapepper6175]

Beautiful message!! God bless you, Fr. Mike. Be well!!🙏💞

[@DeborahDoherty-fm2ye]

Fr Mike. I have been so stressed that how I pray is not good enough and have felt pressured by others that I need to do more or I won’t get to heaven. Your talk on original sin has given me a different opinion and I want to thank you very much. God bless you.

[@TheLotharx]

Fear not; our Lord said that the only sin that wouldn't be forgiven is the sin of final impenitence. Recognize your need for God's mercy, love Him with all your heart and soul, stay as close as you possibly can to the sacrament of confession - and have zero doubt in the inexhaustible mercy of the Lord 🙏

[@maireglynn6295]

Hope you feel better soon

[@aspookyspookynight]

Feel better soon!

[@janetandrews1306]

Thank you Father Mike.

[@teemarks8527]

Thank you, Father Mike. I've been lying here, like you with the sniffles, feeling sorry for myself 😅. Get well soon. And thank you for emphasizing the "all made in God's image" part, it's always hits home for me because I really find it difficult to understand how we treat "the God" that we're looking at everyday without love....the love that we're always being given. Yes, we're broken and sick 😢💔....sigh! Boitumelo 🇧🇼

[@mariedurant205]

Amen Thank so much my Jesus !!!

[@CatherineKoziatek]

Thanks Father Mike! You have a helpful way to explain things/the Bible clearly. Enjoying your Bible in a year.

[@mapinoita279]

God bless you Fr. Mike! Get well soon!😊

[@kimkocuba8215]

Beautiful segment, so many nuggets in here so many lessons. So much love. I literally just went through her father's retreat. At least, I assume it's her father. At the same time, your 2022 advent forgiveness videos popped up in my feed. my phone must have been listening to me talking about healing. This is currently the journey that I'm on and I can't wait to come out the other side.❤❤ Thank you both

[@rebeccaparker1554]

God bless you father Mike I pray for you. Your deliveries are meaningful and your personality adorable.

[@earlineinglesbirth1841]

Praying for you to get better soon Fr. Mike.

[@MoonlightNothing]

Yes, Father, 7 days ago your recording you made on "just do the hard things, and stop wishing they were easier." I wasn't sure if I was listening to Tony Robbins talking? Ha ha ha ha! I rather listen to you any day than Mister Robbins Godspeed Fr. MIKE ❤️‍🩹

[@pokefanlight]

What Fr Mike said in 7:20 so reminds me of my favourite quote from Lilo & Stitch that's sums up our human condition regarding concupiscence. "This is my family... it's little, and broken, but still good. Yeah still good."

[@markantonelli53]

How is it fair that God has ignored my every attempt at connecting with Him? Humans are given free will, and I’m freely choosing to no longer attempting to have a relationship with God

[@Lichterprinzessin]

Bless you with good health! I love your Bibel in a year Podcast! I'm a pentecostal Christian I really apreciate your heart & your wisdom in Jesus! Be blessed

[@psarmijo5256]

It's not about BLAME! It's about CONTAINING and STOPPING the SPREAD!

[@ahapka]

If one person can cause humanity to fall, one person can redeem humanity. That is one good effect. One person can redeem all.

[@erinmahoney7263]

Praying for you, Fr. Mike! Rest up and God Bless!

[@DylanGemelliBiohacking]

Thank you Father Mike and get better soon! 🙏🙏🙏

[@ben0298]

Christ already paid the ultimate price for our brokenness. All we need to do, is accept God's love and glory 🙏✝️

[@bigdaddydiesel5520]

And repent of our sins.

[@lolwutpear1000]

"Go and sin no more" it doesn't stop at accepting Christ. We must all strive to constantly repent and improve.

[@CherylWright-g8e]

Pray you feel better Life is not fair. God has a unique plan for each of us. It is up to us to use the grace from baptism to be more like God. We are responsible for our thoughts and actions.

[@simonslater9024]

Jesus is still paying for it and is still on the cross because when the holy Catholic Church suffers so do Jesus because the Catholic Church is Jesus’s mystical body on earth! Read 1Peter4:12-15,and Colossians1:24. Also watch Following padre Pio who shows the true beauty of Catholicism which is everyone’s true home! God bless.

[@KestyJoe]

This is such a screwed up doctrine. First, substitutional sacrifice is a disgusting idea. “I killed that guy because of something you did” does not fly in any context. Second, testing whether you believe sincerely enough under threat of punishment is immoral. “Nope, sorry, you had 1% doubt so you don’t get the prize!” Then put that in the context of an all-knowing God who already knew who would be damned before you were born, and the whole thing is an evil charade.

[@katydidd6321]

Adam and Eve are my favorite saints. Their mistake lets us prove our worth to God everyday by overcoming our weaknesses. Thank you Saints Adam and Eve! I hope you feel better soon, Father Mike.

[@lynncw9202]

Are Adam and Eve actually saints? I've never heard that?!

[@katydidd6321]

@@lynncw9202 Yup, their feast day is December 24! They spent the remainder of their lives in penance for original sin. You can pray for their intercession for God's forgiveness. You can google it.

[@katydidd6321]

@@lynncw9202 Yup, their feast day is December 24.

[@EasternRomeOrthodoxy]

🇷🇺☦️🤝✝️Dear father, that was absolutely beautiful & profound. As a Russian eastern Roman Orthodox i am so glad to hear true traditional Roman Catholics as yourselves speak in reverence about our ancestors, Adam & Eve, and not spewing blasphemy saying that their story recorded by St. Moses in Genesis is an "allegory", like the heretical "Thomistic" institute claims. God bless, in the name of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit. Amen🙏❤️

[@IONov990]

Wow. Fr. Mike's eyes look so beautiful today

[@antheakwaw605]

Speedy recovery Fr Mike! Blessings. ❤🙏

[@pamelabrule3467]

Good talk, Fr. Mike! I'm a little sick, too, post Good News Cruise. Your talk there was truly inspiring for us and we thank you for it.

[@peggybruening4415]

Fr. Mike prayers for you and thank you always for your wisdom and clarity!

[@nanarodriguez1854]

Aww sending healing prayers your way. ❤

[@sttefaniesteche5573]

"I can't break the gap between humanity and God, so What's God do? God bridges the gap between divinity and humanity, he takes on our human nature. In the person of Jesus Christ, fully God and fully man, God reconciles us to himself"

[@sttefaniesteche5573]

Thanks God for speak us through you father Mike 🙌

[@adacathy3018]

“I’m fine, I’m fine…I am not fine” same fr. Mike same

[@DanielCarnes]

A spoon full of honey, juice from half of a lemon, a shot of whisky, mix together, microwave for 20-25 seconds and will clear you right up.

[@tonyhayes9827]

One of those `came just at the right time for me', events. Thank-you

[@connorroach538]

Important message. Pray you remember you’re not important Father!

[@CanyonClark-k2p]

🙏🏻GOOD MESSAGE ✝️BRO MIKE🙏🏻GOD BLESS🙏🏻

[@jeanniedelahunt3610]

Rest, tea, and honey. 🙏🙏🙏

[@jeanniedelahunt3610]

Oh, and I forgot, chicken soup. Hopefully you like onions. The combination of onions and garlic in the broth assist with healing, since both contain antiviral and antibacterial properties

[@fjcoughlin]

Just discovered these short videos. The short length makes its perfect to work into one’s morning prayer and routine. Please keep these short videos coming.

[@angels8837]

Great explanation The very answer I needed to hear today Holy Spirit always present and working to help us understand Thanks Fr Mike

[@elizabethhunter4525]

Ah ha some of the old sparkle is back, what a love story we live in JOHN 3 16 Thank God for Jesus.

[@matildamcgillicuddy3935]

Feel better soon, Father Mike! Sometimes, I'd really like you to discuss this: If the Fall was so very bad, why did God allow it to happen? I have never understood that, and maybe there isn't really a good answer, but I'd love to hear you talk about it. Thank you, Father Mike, and God bless you. 🙏🏼

[@jjjone683]

I think because God gave man freedom. Fr. Mike has a video about Why do bad things happen to good people that explains this pretty well. I don’t know the exact title

[@ahapka]

The fall allowed us to make a choice to love God. There has to be an alternative or it isn’t love. Love must be freely given.

[@JustARandomBrotherInChri-zg6ku]

Cathecism of the Catholic Church (CCC) 412: "But why did God not prevent the first man from sinning? St. Leo the Great responds, “Christ’s inexpressible grace gave us blessings better than those the demon’s envy had taken away.”* And St. Thomas Aquinas wrote, “There is nothing to prevent human nature’s being raised up to something greater, even after sin; God permits evil in order to draw forth some greater good. Thus St. Paul says, ‘Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more’; and the Exsultet sings, ‘O happy fault that earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer!'" But also CCC 314: "We firmly believe that God is master of the world and of its history. But the ways of his providence are often unknown to us. Only at the end, when our partial knowledge ceases, when we see God “face to face,”* will we fully know the ways by which-even through the dramas of evil and sin-God has guided his creation to that definitive sabbath rest* for which he created heaven and earth." TL;DR: God gives us a goodness infinitely better than the fall, by redeeming us through Jesus Christ. However, ultimately, we can only be given the best answer during our judgment after our live ends.

[@matildamcgillicuddy3935]

@@jjjone683 Yes, but . . . God allowed it to happen because He would bring a greater good out of it. What could be a greater good than what we already had? We already had the image and likeness of God, and we had free will in Paradise. What is better than that?

[@matildamcgillicuddy3935]

@@ahapka As far as I know, mankind already loved God.

[@sandstorm7768]

Father Mike said the answer that I realized myself. If you were in Adam & Eve's place, would you really have done any better than them? I think we'd only say yes because of hindsight. Moreover, we eat the forbidden fruit *every day.* We have the opportunity to be faithful yet we choose things that are not God every day. It is massive pride to think we wouldn't have broken Creation. Only one man is perfect, and that is Jesus, whom we need to bring us back to God ❤️

[@J3rs3y_G1rl]

Oh goodness... it's winter. People get sick in the winter. It is your body's reaction to trying to heal itself. Nothing to panic about.

[@zuziamarchewa7395]

WOW. I needed exactly this today. Thank you very much and greatings from Poland

[@CatFoisy]

Get better soon ❤God bless you always

[@LoretoRivera-xq9pb]

I am scared that Abba God will not have mercy on me anymore for the sins I have committed.

[@thegreatsamurai3255]

He will forgive you man, just keep believing and trying

[@simonslater9024]

For true healing comes ONLY through Jesus’s mystical body on earth the holy Catholic Church anything else is done in vain. God bless. Praise Jesus and Mary always!!!

[@StudentDad-mc3pu]

Since they did not exist, I'm not going to worry about it - the Adam and Eve story is simply an attempt to explain why the Universe is like it is, with good things and bad things, a propensity for good in humans ballanced by a potential for bad.

[@17CW68fNv]

Lemon tea with honey would be very good. Praying for you. God Bless. Claire.

[@sergioluisperez2]

Hermoso mensaje Padre Mike!

[@elsacamacho6496]

Gracias Father Mike. 👍💯💯☝️💯💯

[@randykerckhoff3442]

We all have free will.

[@stevegryka4964]

You'll be find!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mihneethedisciple]

🧘🏻‍♀️ thank you for all your help 😇

[@RasmusKarlJensen]

Some questions: If Adam and Eve were not yet fallen, how were they able to sin? Without having yet fallen, why would they desire to disobey God? If they were tricked, then how were they culpable? Why does God allow original sin (or “original wound” as you call it) to be passed down? Why not just judge each person on a clean slate?

[@nikopawlowic6557]

Forgive me Father Mike for being a doubter and a sinner, but I haven't been able to truly confess because I hold some grudges in my heart, but I also hold several blessings as well, and I just don't know how to let go of the grudges/burdens (mostly because of my own mistakes and I don't want to trouble our Lord and Savior) and the blessings of being raised by a good family, country, and doing my best to serve both despite being disabled. And now to see the world going into a state of absolute idiocy, what can I do to help save the people of our world is a question I continously ask myself, and I have no answer.

[@davidstuchly9792]

🙏🕊️ hope you get well soon!

[@Ladyoffidelity14]

Man you sound like how I was a few weeks ago. Nearly choked on a live cause of the deaniage, I ended up guzzling lords water because it was the only thing near me while I was chokeing. It was pretty bad 😅💖 I hope you feel better Father!!!

[@TCM1231]

Originally wounded.

[@dieseljester]

So here's a question for you Christians here: If it turns out that one of your ancestors, that you never met, committed a crime, and it was heinous enough to warrant life in prison or even the death penalty, are YOU willing to be jailed and/or killed for something that your ancestor supposedly did? I seriously doubt that any of you would.

[@Unclenate1000]

Yep. yet they make excuses for god who deliberately designed this unfair unjust setup for no good reason lol.

[@JessicaB1982]

I'm watching the video on my TV, but I just wanted to suggest something to you Fr. Mike, take a spoonful of honey. It'll coat your throat so you're not hacking up mucous so much or coughing as much. Also if you have a cold, lots of chicken noodle soup. Dr. Mom's advice (I say the same thing to my own son)

[@timskrobot4025]

You still didn't explain how it was fair for us to be burdened by the sins of our ancestors. Comparing it to a sickness, God could've cured the sickness at the beginning but he let it fester. Why should I believe that God will fix the problem of sin when he was the one who allowed it to perpetuate?

[@Unclenate1000]

Well put. They have no good answer. Its obviously an idiotic design on the part of god. As a kid i realized how unjust and stupid it was.

[@jeanmariedenning62]

Elderberry extract, prayer, , Vit C , prayer, zinc,prayer, D3. You will be fine !🙏💕❤️🙏

[@rosemorales3135]

Thanks!

[@The_Atheist_Carpenter5625]

So no, it would be abjectly unfair for an omnipotent being to deal with things in that fashion. Thanks for clarifying.

[@gustafbstrom]

One question: I'd buy that we are made good but broken and therefore have desires we don't want (if we deep inside want to do good) as you say. However, what drove Adam and Eve to sin in the first place then? It could not have been brokenness before The Fall. If the answer is "X drove them', then X would also explain our own tendency to sin. In turn, that means, in fact, it's NOT brokenness that makes us fail after all.