As a devout Catholic who is actively involved in my community and church, I have always believed that my faith and spirituality are firmly grounded in the Roman Catholic Church. However, life is a journey and my perspective has broadened over time. My parish priest, the Most Rev. Fr. Wiborg Pietra Torres, who was a dear friend and my spiritual director, once advised me that as Catholics, we should strive to understand the perspectives of other Christian traditions.

This experience broadened my perspective and allowed me to contemplate and evaluate various Christian practices and beliefs.

Lately, I have been exploring the Christian belief of how Christ saved us on the Cross. My research has included various sources such as Catholic, Protestant, and smaller religious groups, which have offered valuable perspectives through documents, books, articles, and papers. This journey has been enlightening and has deepened my faith.

In a very simplistic and summarised way in the Book of Genesis, one reads that paradise was a good place to live. The perfect place.

Although God advised Adam and Eve they must follow a very simple rule: Do not touch on the fruit of a specific tree. Well, we all know how the “story” ends, Adam ended up disappointing God that expelled him and Eve from paradise.

Disobedience, disappointment and sadness were born at that time. Sin was born at that moment.

The responsibility for bringing sin to all of humanity lies with Adam and Eve. Unfortunately, this fault has been passed down to us, his children, as an inheritance. Thus, we are the inheritors of our Father Adam’s original fault.

No man by himself can atone for that fault.

John 3, 16-36 says that God in His Infinite mercy, sent to this world His son to save us and have eternal life. On the cross, Jesus, man and God made the atonement for our fault that we, by ourselves, could never be able to achieve.