Re: [asa] Bloesch on the Fall (was "Adam and the Fall")

Comment here just on one sentence of Dick's below. I don't mean to pick on him but the phrase"sin nature" has been used by others here & should be avoided. If we're going to use the idea of humans having a distinctive "human nature" at all, the idea that this is a "sin nature" would mean that before regeneration people are no longer in essence good creations of God. That is why the 1st article of the Formula of Concord rejected such language. (Augustine said that even in the devil is in essence good.)

Shalom
George
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  Man has a sin nature and so far as I can tell has always had it. asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.

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