.)  He became incarnate to lead us by example, to occupy suffering as some form of explanation for its existence which is ultimately mysterious, to establish his church, and to teach us all a better way of being human. Suffering and death should be explained as a product of evolutionary processes and not a result of a primordial fall from grace by the action of some mythical figure from Genesis. Childhood cancer or the suffering and/or death of children as a result of child abuse cannot possibly be explained by the responsibility of an original sinner from antiquity. The very notion that children or anyone else from around the world must suffer and die as a direct result of someone sinning in antiquity is farcical.  How are innocent children responsible for somebody else sinning? God isn't someone who is aloof to human suffering and God is not someone to allow others to suffer for some anonymous, long lost person from the dawn of history. You would have to ask yourself what possible sin could have led God to break a full communion or grace with all humans, by some unknown individual from the dawn of time? Was that sin so great that everyone else must pay the penalty for it as well? It must have been quite a sin! These considerations lead me to consider the idea of original sin as utterly absurd and nonsensical.  