I'm sympathetic to rethinking how and what we are to understand from the Genesis story. I still think that the most salient point the creationists make, however, is that the creation story has death coming into the world because of Sin.

If this didn't happen (the earth existed and pre-man lived and died for eons before "Adam") then the new-Adam parallels of Romans, for example, are severely undercut. Death did not enter via sin, death was always part of God's design and plan...

How do you do away with the literal Genesis story w/o undercutting theological understandings of the atonement?
metapundit | Homepage | 01.04.09 - 1:46 am | #

In this article I am only considering this single point of physical cosmology. Your point of a literal Adam is admittedly far more theologically sensitive. I do not think the two are necessarily related.
brad | 01.05.09 - 1:07 am | #

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777denny | Homepage | 01.14.09 - 9:01 pm | #

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Bob | 02.25.09 - 3:51 pm | #