We Saw an Image of Biblical Adam on Coldplay’s Kiss Cam – RedState
It was the moment Kiss Cam seen all over the world – the now infamous moment of the CEO of astronomer Andy Byron and the director of people in chief of the company Kristin Cabot, surprised as amants during a Coldplay concert on July 16, 2025. Many ink has already been overthrown on the details, so there is no need to add more. But an aspect of this incident on which it is largely useless is that it was not only a public relations scandal or a marital implosion. What we have seen was an image of someone caught in sin, feeling shame and reacting as the weakest cowards would do. In this sense, we have seen an achievement mode of the biblical Adam.
My initial video reaction was that these two were clearly bad. Their body language betrayed him – like the Coldplay Front Chris Martin noted from the scene: “Either they have a connection, or they are just very timid.” We immediately knew it was the first. And it’s horrible. Two families are broken. The workforce of a business is shaken. For the public, it has become a moment of macabre entertainment. For people involved and their loved ones, it is a crisis of devastating proportions.
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While I was thinking about this scene, my surprise turned into anger. By being there together, Byron and Cabot actively betrayed their families – and clearly enjoying the thrill. What we have seen was the last moments of pleasure in the prohibited fruits of Eden, just before shame arose. Look at the clip again: the expression of Kristin Cabot changes first, a flash of horror exceeding his face. Next comes the appearance of a deep concern by Andy Byron. She quickly covers her face and turns away. And Byron, the man, the CEO, the supposed leader? He rises out of the frame, abandoning his mistress with regard to the camera, shame and laughter of the crowd. A few moments before, Byron betrayed his wife. Now he also betrayed the woman with whom he had an affair. It was a coward movement – a trait inherited from the original Adam.
Genesis 3:12 tells us that when God confronted the first man to eat prohibited fruits, Adam deflected the blame: “The woman you gave with me – she gave me fruit of the tree and I ate.” It is the same script that we saw playing on this concert screen: abandonment, shame and blame.
But the cowardice of Adam and Andy is barely isolated. We see it repeated through our culture – in adult men who will not engage in women they permeate, in absent fathers, in elected officials that are too timid to oppose gender activists, in military officers who apply illegal orders and in pastors who continue cultural approval instead of truth. America does not suffer from an excess of toxic masculinity – it suffers from a plague of male toxic cowardice. We have too many adult men, but too few men.
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There is a second truth that this illustrious episode: moral relativism is a myth. Those who led this moment in public conscience were not among the Church – they were unbelievers. It was the wider audience, of all belief systems, which saw shame and instinctively recognized immorality and its associated guilt. The observers did not need a theology diploma to find out what we all witnessed on this concert screen was false.
A third thing that I feel the need to respond is the overview shown by certain Christians who invoke John 8: 7 – “That the one without sin throws the first stone” – as a reason to criticize others who comment on the situation. The same God who shows mercy to the repentant prescribed serious penalties for unrepentant sin elsewhere in the Scriptures. “Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor the idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, gourmet, drunkards, revilers, nor crooks will inherit from the Kingdom of God” (1st Corinthians 6: 9-10). Sexual sin is not trivial. Infidelity brings the destructive force of a nuclear warhead at the heart of family life. It is just that society stigmatizes adultery, in order to make it unpleasant. In fact, we would be a healthier society if we have criminalized it. The law, after all, is a teacher.
Some, in particular on LinkedIn, went so far as to scold anyone who spoke of the case between Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot, postulating a theology in which to call public sin is itself morally false. Ironically, in doing so, they throw their own stones – from those who take moral clarity seriously and benefit from the same algorithmic attention that they condemn to others. The response most in accordance with mature theology is not to let the desire to lead pious to lead a response that reflects moral relativism. Rather, it is a question of praying that this public revelation of sin will lead all those affected at the foot of the cross and will effectively warn others to stay away from the prohibited fruits.
Finally, at a deeper theological level, we must remember that silence in the face of open sin does not honor God. The mercy of Christ has always been given in tandem with repentance. In the absence of repentance, the Scriptures clearly speak of judgment. He is loving to warn that sin leads to destruction and to guide culture towards the honor of virtue and shame vice.
We have currently seen the horror, cowardice and betrayal formulated by a weak adult man, an image of these late moments in the Garden of Eden. There is no better approval of the reason why Godly Mananship is a fundamental requirement for stable companies. Let us emphasize the first as a warning, and the second as a goal.
