Re: mtDNA Eve and the determination of humanity

Rich, I'm sympathetic toward your view of Genesis but your definition
of "sin" seems problematic to me, if for one reason only: it makes the
lack of wisdom "sin" if the potentiality is there for decreasing one's
survival (which it obviously is). "And Jesus increased in wisdom and
stature, and in favor with God and men." (Luke 2:52) What if the
child Jesus did something unwise that could have killed him, like
touching something hot or getting too close to deep water? You can of
course argue that Jesus did no such thing, so he did not "sin", but
that seems to make his increase in wisdom a meaningless notion.

Chris

On 3/1/06, RFaussette@aol.com <RFaussette@aol.com> wrote:
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> In a message dated 3/1/2006 5:32:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> pruest@mysunrise.ch writes:
> Sin and sinfulness, being a spiritual quality
> (or rather defect), cannot be inherited biologically.
> Animals without self consciousness cannot sin. The lower down the
> evolutionary ladder you go, the more the organisms behave instinctively.
> Adam's fall is the development of self consciousness and the abandonment of
> instinctive behavior. Original sin CAN and IS inherited biologically.
> If you simply read the language, without interpretation, this is exactly
> what genesis is telling you.
> And the knowledge is perfect. Eve will have pain in childbirth due to her
> sin. We know the pain in childbirth comes from the epxansion of brain size
> with evolution that spawned a whole host of problems/issues for the
> developing fetus resulting in what developmental scientists call neoteny.
> The biblical author did not know evolution but could see he differnece
> between animal births and human births and what the issues were simply by
> observing.
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> There is no spiritual quality to sin. Sin is making a mistake that
> compromises your survival.
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> rich faussette
Received on Wed Mar 1 08:11:57 2006