From: Glenn Morton (glennmorton@entouch.net)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 20:47:18 EDT
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>From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
>Behalf Of Michael Roberts
>Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 5:02 PM
>Ted is right to see that the doctrine of the Fall is the pivot to YEC as
>they present the case if a snake did not deceive Eve then all
>doctrine up to
>the atonement collapse like skittles. It has superficial great
>appeal as doe
>the argument that there was no death before the Fall as the wages of sin is
>death.
and atheists have not helped the evolutionary case by claiming things like:
"If all the animals and man have been evolved in this ascendant manner, then
there would have been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there
had been no Fall, the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of
the first sin and the reason for an atonement, upon which current teaching
bases Christian emotion and morality, collapses like a house of cards."~H.
G. Wells, The Outline of History, (Garden City: Doubleday, 1961), p. 776-777
This is why IMO it is important for evolutionary approaches to Genesis to
have actual first parents, not just the typical smooth transition. Without
first parents, you can't have the Fall in most YECs minds, (and of course, I
agree with them, but that is another debate and most on this board disagree
with me).
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