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To: Manfred the Wonder Dawg
OK, you got me there. Eve wasn't made directly out of nothing.

Two points for you. My point still remains, that sinless is better than sinful. Don't you agree?

762 posted on 05/05/2008 6:01:26 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

She was created by God, that’s for sure - but not even indirectly from nothing.

But she was sinless until “the fall”. Perfection, which is what sinless is, certainly is better than sinful. That’s why all mankind needs Jesus - He alone is without sin.

An interesting, not directly related point: I’ve been taught all my life that humans - every one - is created in God’s image. In a book (Classic Christianity) that I recently read, the author points out Gen 5:1, which shows that Adam and Eve were created in God’s image, but all descendants have been born in the image of their Earthly parents. Being bron again, as the new creation in Christ, is when we are re-created in His image.

Gen 5:5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.


773 posted on 05/05/2008 6:23:39 PM PDT by Manfred the Wonder Dawg (Test ALL things, hold to that which is True.)
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To: SoothingDave; Manfred the Wonder Dawg

“My point still remains, that sinless is better than sinful. Don’t you agree?”

You miss the point. She was created innocent with the capability to sin. Untested innocence is virtueless so sinless was an empty category since it had not entered the garden at the time she was created..


797 posted on 05/05/2008 7:15:50 PM PDT by blue-duncan
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