I agree totally with your post. However, you quote from my post but must
realize that the question to be asked is, contradictory to Whom or to what?
It is clear that I meant contradictory to God--to His law--not to our
understanding of Scripture. It seems to me that if there is a being that is
both fallen and have eternal life, that would have to be Satan or else no
one!
Take care,
Moorad
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn R. Morton <grmorton@waymark.net>
To: Moorad Alexanian <alexanian@uncwil.edu>
Cc: asa@calvin.edu <asa@calvin.edu>
Date: Saturday, June 05, 1999 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: The origin of scientific thinking
>Moorad Alexanian wrote:
>>
>> Dear Glenn,
>>
>> Thanks for your insights. It seems to me that being in the fallen state
and
>> having eternal life are contradictory.
>
>
>I would strongly and respectfully disagree here. Even God appeared to
>be aware that a fallen man could live forever. God said in Genesis
>3:22: "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He
>must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of
>life and eat, and live forever."
>
>If it was incompatible for man to be both Fallen and have eternal life,
>then God, here, was worrying needlessly. If it was incompatible for man
>to be both Fallen and have eternal life, then if Adam ate from the tree,
>there would be no accompanying eternal life. There would have been no
>need for God to have banished man from the Garden nor to have removed
>access to the tree of life. But clearly God was worried about this
>possibility and banished man and woman from the Garden and placed a
>cherubim to guard the tree. Sounds like an awful lot of worry for
>something that is impossible.
>glenn
>
>Foundation, Fall and Flood
>Adam, Apes and Anthropology
>http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm