(snip)
As my previous post makes clear, I generally agree
with George's summary of the doctrine of original sin
not being dependent on a particular, identifiable
Adam.
> Again I point out that Paul speaks strongly
> & at length about the
> universal problem of human sin in Rom.1:18-3:18 with
> no reference to Adam.
> The real challenge presented by evolution
> is not so much to "original
> sin" but to "original righteousness" - the idea that
> for some time the first
> humans existed in a "state of integrity" in which
> they did _not_ sin.
I don't know how "tough" this is. One reading could
be that sin enters into the human picture once there
is a knowledge of good and evil. At some point,
hominids reached a point where we could discern
between good and evil and make some sort of freewill
choice.
If the choice of behavior was not "free" before the
cognitive knowledge between good and evil, is there
sin?
Is there sin if we have not been "raised" onto that
noetic plane at which point we can commune with and
have personal knowledge of God?
Peace,
Blake
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