Re: tsunami impact on animals

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From: <RFaussette@aol.com>
To: ""Charles Carrigan"" <CCarriga@olivet.edu>; <asa@calvin.edu>;
<donperrett@genesisproclaimed.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:15 PM
Subject: RE: tsunami impact on animals

> Perfection of Adam, for instance, certainly implies (even defines) that he
> was complete and whole, without fault or defect. But Adam clearly needed
> Eve (not to mention God), hardly a characteristic of a perfect individual.
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> Adam was perfect before Eve was split from him. This is the position of
> Jewish mysticism and the nag hammadi texts. Once adam and eve were
> separate, desire came into being. Desire caused the fall. so, in the nag
> hammadi texts, one of the requirements for entering the kingdom of God is
> to have both male and female qualities, the way Adam was before he was
> split into two sexes.

I'm going to pose a question that may seem polemical but my purpose is
simply to get clear what your views on the matter are. I may not pose it in
a way that's sufficiently nuanced for you, so feel free to restate it if you
think that would help.

What status do you accord the Nag Hammadi texts, as far as their authority
for Christians is concerned, relative to the canonical books of the NT?

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Tue Jan 11 12:34:58 2005