From: Terry M. Gray (grayt@lamar.colostate.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 11:15:45 EDT
Whoa...let's slow this out of control ride down a bit!
Isn't the appeal to the mis-translation a strawman of sorts?
Theologians in the Augustinian tradition have had access to the
correct translation and early manuscripts for centuries now and have
continued to advocate the Augustinian view. Perhaps the
mis-translation was seminal in Augustine's original articulation of
the doctrine, but it seems hardly relevant now. Similarly, any
physiological misconceptions about how the sin nature is
"transmitted" seems hardly relevant now. These are just bug-a-boos in
this discussion.
Let's ask these questions about the nature of the Fall to Hodge,
Warfield, Murray, Frame, or any host of modern Reformed (and/or
Lutheran) theologians. Clearly, from the aforementioned list you
don't have to be YEC to find the Augustinian perspective compelling.
I.e. the accusation that YEC is the cart before the
Biblical/theological horse is simply specious.
TG
>Echoing what Blake Nelson just wrote, it is my understanding that Augustine
>and the western tradition actually mis-interpreted a key Pauline text about
>original sin, b/c they were working from the vulgate rather than from the
>original Greek text. I suspect that George Murphy or someone else knows the
>full story here and can illuminate us?
>
>ted
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