I think Romans 5 must be refering to spiritual life and death because it draws a parallel between Adam and Christ. Just as the sin of Adam brought death to the world, the righteous life of Christ brought back life. But obviously people lived before Christ, so this must be spiritual life. I suppose it's possible that the passage refers to physical death in the case of Adam but not for Christ, But that kind of ruins the beautiful symmetry of the passage.
Brent
--- Graham Richard Pointer <grp1@st-andrews.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Jeff Witters wrote:
>
>> I got a call from my father, a Nazarene minister, the other night. One of
>> the flock (a quiet agronimist) got pulled into a c/e discussion at work, got
>> leveled by a stumper, and came to Dad wondering how to resolve the question.
>>
>> So, I am trying to pull together some resources for him on the topic of
>> "original sin" and its effects on creation. Specifically these are in
>> answer to Sure-Fire Evolutionist Stumper #371: Evolution can't possibly be
>> true because the Bible teaches that no death existed before the Fall.
>
>
>In Rom 5:12 it talks about death coming to men by Adam's sin. There is
>also the question of how did Adam and Eve know what death was if they'd
>never seen a dead animal?
>
>Graham
>
>
>> I know that many have addressed this issue and I already have some
>> materials. I am especially looking for anything from a TE perspective. Any
>> help would be greatly appreciated. Any tips on getting the search funtion
>> to work on the listserv archives would be great too.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff Witters
>>
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>Graham Richard Pointer
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>St Andrews
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