Re: [asa] Original Sin and Genesis 3

 It is Creation that is source of what is rational in humans.? After millions of years of instinctive responses to Creation (our environment) we began to evolve (be created in more of the image of God) a response that is called condition response and it is Creation that does the conditioning ultimately causing us to reason by merit of the immanence of God instead of just feel.

-Mike (Friend of ASA)

-----Original Message-----
From: Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net>
To: mlucid@aol.com
Cc: asa@calvin.edu
Sent: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 3:51 pm
Subject: Re: [asa] Original Sin and Genesis 3

At 04:32 PM 12/9/2007, mlucid@aol.com wrote:

Seems to me to be fairly obvious
that the Fall of man depicts the rise of reason in humans.? ...After
the conditioned response became massively developed and perceptively
dominant in humans over our instinct, reason emerged.? ... -Mike
(Friend of ASA)

@ Don't we know from science that matter is
irrational. That means that it does not possess rationality and cannot
think and reason. Now when we look at the world around us, it seems that
so many species like humans can think and reason and possess rationality.
Now if Hume is right and water doesn't rise higher than its source and
an effect can't be greater than its cause, how do you get rationality
from irrationality?"

~ Janice

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