[la$tminutepardon]

Like God, man has the ability to choose good over evil in spiritual matters

He can't now, but he could in Eden. Like math, theology has to have the first truths right or all that follows will be unsound.

My concern here is that if we can't get the truth of Eden straight, how can we possibly get the truth of the lie straight? All of it must be based on biblical truth, not on our own personal ideas of what the truth is. If the object here is to teach and to present biblical truth, then we must be as intellectually honest as possible and teach what the bible says, not what some commentator on commentary says.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[Matchett-PI]

"He can't [choose good over evil] now, but he could in Eden"

Yes, but he was never going to be "God".

[the_doc]

I'll buy that. Adam did not appreciate the significance of good and evil, because he had no experiential knowledge of good and evil, but he could have chosen to do (or not do) what God told him to do (or not do).

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. (I love that line. It sounds like a great movie line.)