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To: RaceBannon
That is clear.

Not very. The standard Moravian interpretation, IIRC, is that Adam introduced sin into the world, and that is why we sin, NOT that we are held responsible for Adam's transgression (or anyone else's but our own).

I do realize that many Christian churches do teach the doctrine of original sin, and also the interpretation that Adam's sin was what made man mortal, even though that contradicts the notion that eating of the Tree of Life would confer immortality.

319 posted on 07/04/2002 9:56:27 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
You said: I do realize that many Christian churches do teach the doctrine of original sin, and also the interpretation that Adam's sin was what made man mortal, even though that contradicts the notion that eating of the Tree of Life would confer immortality.

If I may interject, Genesis chapters 2 and 3 speak of two trees being in the center of the Garden of Eden. The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is what Adam and Eve ate and they were banished so that they would not eat from the other tree, which is the tree of life (Genesis 2:9) Notably, the tree of life is in the center of paradise (Rev 2:7)

Since other things of great importance exist both in the spiritual realm and the natural realm in the Scriptures (ark, temple, etc.) – it appears to me that Eden and Paradise are one and the same (spiritual realm) and that Adam was banished to the natural realm (death, decay, etc.) I believe this understanding would be consistent with this Jewish teaching: Physics & Kabbalah - Unifying Two Worlds

Just my two cents…

326 posted on 07/04/2002 10:52:39 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Physicist
bttt
327 posted on 07/04/2002 10:53:21 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: Physicist
Remember, God said that when they eat of the fruit, thatis the day they die.

(Gen 2:17 KJV) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

That is not an interpretation, that is a quote. I do agree that we are judged for our own sins, but mortality came because of Adam's sin, and the penalty for sin came upon all men because of Adam's sin and that is the reason for a Saviour.

343 posted on 07/05/2002 2:46:48 AM PDT by RaceBannon
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