Already done that.
God created Adam, took him to the Garden, said "If you eat death will be certain!". But the fruit looked good, was good for food, and could make one wise like God. So what did our boy Adam do? He ate the thing!!!
God said to Adam, "Dude! Now you got to work and then you go back to the dust you came from." Then God kicked him outta that Garden.
Now, get this. Through Adam disobeying death entered the world and spread to us all, because we do the same thing. And all along God told Adam that sin would produce death. We just don't listen. And we end up worm food too.
If you think that's bad, check this out. Death isn't all. It is appointed man once to die and then the judgment! Now, we sinned and that sin produced death. We earned that as a wage. But God is going to judge us??!!!!
Seems like we have no hope. If God judges use and we have sinned, then I think the punishment will be more than a time out. In fact, it is the second death....not turning to dust again but suffering eternal punishment.
Don't worry, the story gets better. God sent His Son to die for our sins. Jesus comes under this curse, this power of darkness, of sin and death that is produced by our own stubborn wickedness.
I know what you are thinking, but no. Jesus did not save us from turning into worm food. We earned that. Sin produced that. That's coming. Jesus suffered and died under those powers because He really became one of us. He died.
Don't forget the second part. We die and then that awful judgment where we suffer eternal punishment. Yuck.
But then something really cool happened. When Jesus died and was judged, the judgment was not our punishment but vindication! God gave Jesus a name above every name. He was seated at the right hand of the Father!!!!
OK, ok....I see your concern....that's great for Jesus but what about us?
You remember Adam, the hungry guy who couldn't control himself? Well, we bore his sin. We would do the same thing if we were given that fruit AND we do the same thing in our lives.
Jesus is kinda like Adam. You could even say He is the Second Adam. But the first Adam was flesh and set his desires on the things of the flesh. That fruit looked good, looked good to eat, and it would make him wise like God.
This Second Adam, well He became a life giving Spirit. This is called the manifestation of God's righteousness apart from the law. What Jesus required was one to have faith in Him. This word "faith" is a little word with a big meaning. It means to repent (to turn from ourselves, our desires, our abilities) and believe (to trust in Jesus, to turn to the things of the Spirit).
Seems complexicated (made that one up) don't it? How does that save us? What about us being wicked and sinning? This is the part that confounded the Pharisees. It isn't quite the way smart philosophers would do it, but it is genius. It just doesn't fit the wisdom of the world because the world does not believe God can make the guilty innocent. The world wants its pound of flesh.
You see, when you believe in Jesus you set your mind on the Spirit....well....God looks at your old heart and rips that sucker out (just like that Indiana Jones movie). Don't worry, though, He gives you a new one. And He puts His Spirit in you.
God makes you a new creation. In this life we still struggle with sin, and that old you is still here. But we are saved (we will escape that wrath to come), we are being saved (we are being transformed into the image of Christ) and we will be saved (at Judgment we will be innocent, all of that bad old man will be gone and we will be refined....kinda like a jeweler purifies gold.
Aside from the creative language, that is actually in the text of God's Word. I may have taken liberties with the Indiana Jones part.
