> Thanks for your reply. Yes, Enoch and Elijah and our Lord stand as
> examples of some alternative means of passing from earth to heaven. I also
> agree that our communion with God is broken by our own disobedience. I'm
> just not sure that our ancestors ever experienced even an instant of
> unbroken communion.
I would take Genesis 2-3 to indicate that there was unbroken communion at the
initial point of creating in His image, although as George has noted there
could have been extensive room for further development. The best way I see of
fitting this into the paleontological and biochemical evidence is to assume
that God took a creature which he created physically via evolution, and endowed
it with the ability to commune with Him.
> Among the theologies I see
> two strains, one which embraces evolution but discounts evil and God's
> wrath, another which emphasizes evil and God's wrath but discounts
> evolution.
I think the above scenario avoids both of these problems.
Is there actual evil in the natural world apart from humans? Natural disasters
cause suffering, but this can be attributed to our failure to either avoid them
(by not building in a flood plain) or to prepare for them. Humans are uniquely
both moral and physical creatures.
David C.
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