Re: [asa] Humanity and the Fall: Questions and a Survey

Beth, I agree with you, certainly to the extent that we can't say there has
been a time in the history of life on earth when basic natural laws and
processes were radically different than they are now, which is what would be
required for the "paradise" view of the pre-fall natural world -- unless
there is some very strange and unexplainable event involving parallel
universes or a deceptive "appearance" of age. But, scripture does suggest
that all of creation was corrupted in some sense by the fall, so I guess I'd
want to say that something like, the relational brokenness of the fall
resulted in a corruption of the telos of creation. In some metaphysical
sense, creation is not what it was before the fall, not what it could have
been after the fall, and not what it will be in the eschaton.

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Bethany Sollereder <bsollereder@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Thanks Rich, this is good stuff.
>
> In relation to the fall, I think we should also be explicit about what we
> mean by "the fall", especially since there are typically ideas floating
> around about a cosmic, or natural fall, where the entire realm of nature was
> corrupted. This type of view, science would reject, and rightly so.
> However, if we see the fall as the entrance of human sin and the brokenness
> of human relationship (with God, man, and creation) then we're clear.
>
> Bethany
>

-- 
David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology
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