From: Alexanian, Moorad (alexanian@uncw.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 18:44:21 EDT
Dave,
Christ became man not a thing or an animal. Man has a special place in creation and in the eyes of God. Of course, God loves all of His creation but the Fall of Man may have precipitated the ubiquitous killing that goes on in the process of living. That is the crux of the Fall and Jesus uses the most obnoxious exiting thing, death itself, and turned it into the instrument of salvation.
All things exist in time but I am not truly sure if they evolve and, if so, to what extent. Of course, I can guess like everyone else!
Moorad
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From: D. F. Siemens, Jr. [mailto:dfsiemensjr@juno.com]
Sent: Mon 10/6/2003 5:05 PM
To: Alexanian, Moorad
Cc: gmorbey@wlu.ca; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: RATE]
Moorad,
I was not aware that, as a human being, I am independent of "things/animals". I find that I am definitely physical, tied to matter, with characteristics like those of all the creatures whose genome has been sequenced. How can I get out of this, apparently erroneous, situation?
If everything "came into being together", how can there be an evolutionary history to both the universe and living things? Or is the appearance of age in history pure illusion? Should I become a goose for Gosse?
Dave
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:24:40 -0400 "Alexanian, Moorad" <alexanian@uncw.edu> writes:
Hi Graham,
I am not sure how one can separate the creation of the cosmos from the creation of man. The whole thing came into being together. Perhaps this is not quite consistent with evolutionary thought, but so be it. God became flesh in the man Jesus Christ not things/animals. There is a distinction between man and the rest of creation. Man was created in the image of God, which means that we are conscious beings that can reason and love.
Moorad
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