The recognition that women do not progress sin immediately raises an uncomfortable question. If sin depends on male transmission, then the persistence of sin in the world is not inevitable by nature, but contingent by structure. Sin continues not because humanity exists, but because a particular mode of humanity exists.

This realization forces theology to confront an unsettling implication.

The hypothetical solution that cannot be implemented

If sin progresses only through men, then one solution appears, at least in theory, decisive: eliminate men, and sin ends with them.

The conclusion is logically sound — and utterly impossible.

• Humanity cannot continue without men.

• The eradication of sin by eradicating its carrier would also eradicate life.

• A sinless world without humanity is not redemption; it is annihilation.

God does not solve moral problems by destroying creation. Judgment may limit sin, but redemption preserves what judgment cannot.

Thus, the persistence of men is not evidence of divine indifference to sin. It is evidence that God intends a solution that does not negate humanity itself.

Why women alone cannot resolve the problem

If women do not progress sin, could humanity continue through women alone?

Scripture gives no such model. Woman does not generate life independently. She is life-bearing, not self-originating. The womb receives; it does not initiate.

Even in the virgin birth — the singular exception — woman does not become autonomous. The male role is not removed; it is replaced.

This matters theologically.

The problem of sin cannot be solved by elevating woman above man, nor by eliminating man beneath woman. Redemption is not achieved through inversion, but through interruption.

The necessity of a sinless man

If sin enters and progresses through man, then redemption must also enter through man.

This is not symmetry for its own sake. It is theological coherence.

A sinful man cannot break a sinful lineage.

A redeemed man still inherits death.

Only a sinless man can stand outside the line while entering history.

The solution, therefore, is not reform but replacement — not improvement of Adam, but the arrival of another man who does not belong to Adam at all.

This is why Scripture calls Christ the last Adam, not a corrected one.

Why a single sinless man is sufficient

Sin spreads generationally, but righteousness does not need to. Transmission requires continuity; interruption requires only a point of rupture.

One sinless man is enough to do what billions of sinful men cannot:

• stand without inherited guilt

• obey without corruption

• die without obligation

His death does not satisfy death’s claim on him — it exhausts death’s authority over others.

This is why Christ’s sinlessness is non-negotiable. A merely virtuous man would still die for himself. Only a sinless man can die for humanity.

A second necessity: a new way to be born

Even with a sinless man, the problem remains. Humanity continues to be born through Adam’s line. Christ can interrupt history, but history must still be entered differently.

Redemption therefore requires not only a new man, but a new birth.

This birth does not depend on seed.

It does not depend on womb.

It does not depend on descent.

It depends on Spirit.

“Born again” is not metaphorical. It is structural. It removes humanity from the old economy of transmission and places it into a new one where sin no longer determines destiny.

Death is no longer the only exit

Before Christ, death was the only way out of sin. It was both punishment and release.

After Christ, death is no longer necessary for redemption.

A person can now be:

• born in sin,

• live in a sinful world,

• and yet enter life without waiting for death.

This is not because sin has been minimized, but because its progression has been bypassed.

The quiet logic of redemption

God’s solution is precise, not dramatic.

• He does not erase woman.

• He does not discard man.

• He does not rewrite creation.

He introduces:

• one sinless man, and

• one birth that does not rely on sinful transmission.

Sin is not argued away.

It is outflanked.