Re: The wrong horse in evolution education

In a message dated 4/15/2006 5:40:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,
dickfischer@verizon.net writes:
Of course, many liberals don’t believe there was a flesh and blood Adam, but
even so we still all got Original Sin from him even though he didn’t really
exist.
This is not the correct way to label someone who believes genesis contains
allegories. You can be a biblical minimalist and practice conservative religion.
Whether the levitical prohibitions (which are conservative rules for human
behavior) are rationally and conservatively sound (or not) does not depend on
the existence of an Adam.

And that's right. We still all got original sin from "Adam" because we can't
pinpoint when the first "man" was bequeathed with "reason and wide
understanding" or the "knowledge of good and evil." But we know it occurred because
animals don't have it and men do, all men -- and in that "reason" and "knowledge of
good and evil" is the evil from which we must be saved.

Happy Easter.

rich faussette
Received on Sun Apr 16 08:54:55 2006