Re: >Fall of evolved man
George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:48:42 -0500Eduardo G. Moros wrote:
>
> Another possible scenario is Glenn Morton's, another's could be that God just
> made Adam and Eve "de novo" and in "harmony" with the existing "evolved" or
> "progressively created" life forms, another's could be that Eden is really
> another planet and the first couple were exiled to earth for disobedient,
> another's could say that it happened just as it says in the Bible, another's
> could say that Adam and Eve's story is just an allegorical explanation,
> another's could say that Moses made it up out of religious and logical
> necessities, another's could say the whole thing is nonsense,
> .......................................... and yet another hopes someday we'll
> find out for sure. In the mean time we can say for sure that there is no
> doubt at all that we are fallen and sinful people (i.e., we must've fallen).
& another is that humanity started out on the way to union with
God & got off the path - an idea which
a) is consistent with Scripture,
b) has been held by part of the Christian tradition (e.g.,
Athanasius), &
c) makes sense in an evolutionary framework.
George Murphy