At 07:43 PM 3/10/00 -0500, George Murphy wrote:
> You previously said that there was a connection between Christ & the
historicity
>of Gen.3 because if that text couldn't be understood in terms of an
historical fall then
>the work of Christ was unnecessary. That isn't the case. OTOH I have no
interest in
>dismissing Genesis 3 & realize of course that it was written B.C.
There is a connection. That is not what I am denying. I am denying the
direction you implied (or I inferred) in your last sentence of your last
post. Christ's atonement for sin is predicated upon the Fall and thus the
need for an atoner. Genesis 3 is not logically dependent upon Christs
atonement. We could still be sinners without an atonement.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm
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