Re: The puzzle of Adam

George wrote:

I would say that accountability comes with awareness of God's will - indicated in Gen.2 by the prohibition of the tree of knowledge. & before our ancestors were able to be aware of God's revelation (in whatever form it came) they weren't human _in a theological sense_.
 
rich:
Yes, I agree here.

George:
& yes, salvation is not return to a pre-fall paradisal state. We are to move forward - to "grow up into Christ" (Eph.4:15)

rich:
All of Jewish mysticism is the return to the pre-fall Adamic state. For Christianity not to contain this element would be a developmental anomaly.

rich

 
Received on Mon Nov 29 12:24:17 2004