Archive for the 'Original Sin' Category
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
In Jesus, the Father’s Proxy on Earth and Jesus on Mount Sinai, I establish the idea of Christophanies in the Old Testament, essentially making the case that where we see God on earth, it is Jesus. In Genesis 6 - Who Regretted Creating Mankind?, I use the same principals to suggest there was interplay between Jesus and God the Father in the Flood narrative. It resolves a key problem skeptics point out, where God does not appear omniscient when He speaks (emphasis mine)…
 5 The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that …
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
As I wrote in Problems with Interpreting the Flood - Part 2 - Evidence for Global Catastrophe, any physical evidence for The Flood used by Creation Scientists generally points at the KT Impact 65 million years ago, or at the global ocean that first formed on the earth around 4.5 billion years ago. Furthermore, these two global events are strong evidence for God’s sequence of Creation recorded in Genesis 1. This tells us that whatever else is true, The Flood was not a global event. Otherwise, there would be evidence of it, and there is not. However, this also tells us something else: …
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
…continued Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 7)
22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth …
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 6)
 21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
A loving act amidst their punishment. It is curious that God made garments of skin for Adam and Eve. The skins would have come from an animal. Is it possible God killed a couple of animals for them? I think He did. Notice earlier in the chapter:
 8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid …
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 5)
 20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
I happened upon an interesting commentary on this vers at Accuracy In Genesis. How Big is All? Here is the beginning of that article:
For a first example look at Genesis 3:20 where per the King James Version Adam pronounces Eve as
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“the mother of all living”How big is this all ? Is it totally inclusive of all living matter, plants, bacteria, aquatic life, bugs, fowl, and all the mammals and all primates?
Was she “mother nature” ?Or …
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Friday, May 21st, 2010
…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 4)
After disciplining the serpent, then Eve, God now turns to Adam, whom God had interrogated first on the matter…
 17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’
      “Cursed is the ground because of you;
      through painful toil you will eat of it
      all the days of your life.
Now this is harsh. God had given him a garden, in which he had all the food he ever needed. Of course, it did require tending, enough so that …
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Friday, May 21st, 2010
…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 3)
At this point, God started with Adam. “What have you done?” Adam refers to God to Eve. Eve refers God to Satan. God punishes Satan… but now He comes back to Eve. I’d be like, “Uh oh.”
 16 To the woman he said,
      “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
      with pain you will give birth to children.
      Your desire will be for your husband,
      and he will rule over you.”
For those who use 1 Cor 15:21 and Romans 5:12 as evidence that there was no death before sin, many …
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 1)
 6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Notice that scripture doesn’t question whether eating the fruit was desirable for gaining wisdom. After all, Adam and …
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Several things to notice.
First, the serpent was not the only crafty wild animal the LORD God had made… just the most. I see this as an interesting precursor to later in Genesis, when the Sons of God slept with the Daughters of Man. Angels were always able to possess to living beings. However, at some point, possession of animals appears to have ended. I suspect (but am not sure of) this, not because of others’ commentary I have read, but because when …
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Saturday, May 15th, 2010
Like 1 Corinthians 15:21, Romans 5:12 is another verse used to support the doctrine of Original Sin. However, does this verse mean that there was no death before Adam? That is important to answer, because if there was no death before Adam, then Evolution would be false, and the Earth would by necessity be young… and science would be turned on its ear.
The first verse on Original Sin that I addressed is 1 Corinthians 15:21, which reads:
21For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
However, the context of this verse was a reference back to Daniel 12:2:
2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: …
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