In reply to my raising the possibility of Satan mucking around with the
>geological record, you replied, "Although the work of Satan in the curse of
>creation is a possibility, I think
>Genesis tell us that was God's wrath the direct cause for the curse. I do
>not
share your views of the possibility of Satan messing the geological
record."
I didn't say that I consider this a possibility. It just struck me that
we seem to be quite ready to blame any imperfection in mankind on
original sin (and quite rightly!) but we tend to rule the impact of
original sin on inanimate stuff, such as geology.
When we come across cancer, we tend to say, "aha! original sin" because
we know of people who do not get cancer and we can see the effects of
cancer. When we see a case of Alzheimer, we can compare its ravages to
the mind with what the mind was before? Is it that we don't have the
same comparison in geology the reason why we don't see the effects of
original sin in geology?
Jan de Koning's comment about the New Earth makes me wonder what it will
be like. Presumably, since it is not tainted by sin, but is perfect,
will the physical laws that we have discovered still apply? Will bricks
still fall? Will there be gravity? And that make me wonder what the
"old" earth was like before the fall. Could Adam have fallen of a
cliff? He and Eve obviously ate and some of the physical laws that we
have discovered must have applied.
Just wondering...
Chuck Vandergraaf
>Pinawa, MB