> > Your comment regarding "very good, not perfect" got me to thinking. (I
> > know; scary concept!) Wouldn't God, in His perfection, have created
> > perfection originally? In other words, wouldn't the original creation have
> > been perfect until God cursed it because of man's disobedience?
>
The commands to work the garden, to fill the earth, and to subdue it indicate that there were opportunities for improvement, despite an absence of errors. Thus, the definition of perfect becomes critical. Cf. "perfect, yet it groweth fuller every day..." or the assertion in Hebrews that Jesus was perfected through His experiences.
Likewise, the difference between spiritual and physical death affects the interpretation of death as a curse. We were dead in our trespasses and sin; now the old self is dead; etc. do not relate to our physical state of animation.
Dr. David Campbell
Old Seashells
University of Alabama
Biodiversity & Systematics
Dept. Biological Sciences
Box 870345
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0345 USA
bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com
That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at Droitgate Spa
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