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

Hi George;
 
I'm going to have to stop attending Baptist churches. Perhaps a
"propensity for disobedience" would sound better.
 
Dick Fischer, GPA president
Genesis Proclaimed Association
"Finding Harmony in Bible, Science and History"
www.genesisproclaimed.org
 
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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of George Murphy
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:46 PM
To: Dick Fischer; ASA
Subject: 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
http://home.neo.rr.com/scitheologyglm
----- Original Message -----
From: Dick <mailto:dickfischer@verizon.net> Fischer
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Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] Bloesch on the Fall (was "Adam and the Fall")
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Man has a sin nature and so far as I can tell has always had it. asa"
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