--- Merv <mrb22667@kansas.net> wrote:
> I had just read & pondered that verse (Rom 5:12) myself, this
> morning! Humility is an important ingredient also, in any of these
> discussions -- which (for me) means acknowledging the probable
> transience of my own currently settled position. --well summarized with
> the glib bumper sticker: 'Never put a period where God has put a
> comma.' As a Christian, though, I also cling to the faith that my
> transient apprehension has as its subject a body of universal and
> intransigent Truth.
>
> On Romans 5:12, one of the problems with the traditional creationist
> understanding of this verse is the insistence that it refer to physical
> death. This would make a literal untruth of Gen. 2:17 (... in /that
> day/ you shall surely die ...) In order to preserve the physical
> interpretation of death here, the young-earth creationist would have to
> budge away from the literal 24 hour meaning of 'day' which, it seems to
> me, would be an inconsistency.
Surely creationists have heard this argument, but I am not aware of what, if
any, response they have made to it. Does anyone know?
Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
248.652.4148 (home) 248.821.8156 (mobile)
"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31
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