From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Thu Oct 30 2003 - 23:01:20 EST
Michael Roberts wrote:
>
> I think YEC is more than a denial. Many are convinced that the wages of sin
> is death and from Ro 5.12 and Gen 3 reckon that death came in at the Fall.
> Now the death of Christ pays for the wages of sin, and thus if death is
> pre-fall then death is not the wages of sin and thus our Lord's death is
> null and void.
> That argument I have outlined I reckon to be wrong but if you are locked
> into it, as many YEC are, then any acceptance of death before the Fall
> completely destroys any possibility of salvation.
> Hence the tenacity some hold to a YEC position. Accept trilobites being
> predated by bigger trilobites in 523,379,456 BC and your whole faith is
> destroyed.
As I've pointed out before here, Athanasius apparently thought that humans would
ahve experienced physical death even if they hadn't sinned. But of course he didn't
have the benefit of instruction of eminent YEC theologians.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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