George:
>
>Imputation of the righteousness of Christ to sinners is grace.
>Imputation of the sin of Adam to those who aren't sinners is ...
>what?
Interesting--I'll have to chew on that one for a while.
My quick answer is that it is covenant...God's way of dealing with
mankind. God deals with us through our covenant representative--Adam
or Christ. We Reformed have no problem saying that we all share in
the guilt of Adam's sin (even children who die in infancy). Of
course, actual sin flows out of that state and we're guilty of that
too. Pre-Adamites represented by Adam complicates this a bit--since,
as you imply, they don't commit actual sin (although who is to say
that they didn't).
This begins to drift into my real problem with Fisher's view and with
an allegorical (or whatever you want to call it) view. And that is
the absence of an unfallen state and a paradise that precedes the
Fall.
More later when I get some time.
TG
-- _________________ Terry M. Gray, Ph.D., Computer Support Scientist Chemistry Department, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 grayt@lamar.colostate.edu http://www.chm.colostate.edu/~grayt/ phone: 970-491-7003 fax: 970-491-1801Received on Sat Nov 13 20:04:53 2004
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