tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post4361458020806879095..comments2024-03-24T11:03:03.106-07:00Comments on Just Genesis : In the beginning God created...Alice C. Linsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-85881282591627257882015-08-03T07:18:41.116-07:002015-08-03T07:18:41.116-07:00Theologically, we have a similar understanding of ...Theologically, we have a similar understanding of the semi-divine seed planted on Earth which becomes wholly divine [theosis] through the One Eternal and True Seed - Jesus Christ. John 12:14: Jesus said, "I say to you, unless a grain of wheat [a seed] falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." Compare with Genesis 3:15- the Woman shall bring forth the Seed...<br /><br />Charles Williams' view is not the view of the Eastern Church Fathers. The Eastern Church holds that each person bears the guilt and shame of his or her own sin. What then is the inheritance of humanity from Adam and Eve if it is not guilt? It is a condition, or more accurately, a disease that results in corruption and death. St. Paul points to this in I Corinthians 15:21. St. Cyril of Alexandria teaches that humanity became “diseased… through the sin of one." Adam is blamed, as he is regarded as Eve's Head, as Christ is the Head of the Church. <br /><br />However, if we attend to the Biblical text closely, the disease enters by Eve, who submitted her will to a baser creature, rather than to the Creator - to the will of one whose belly scrapes the dirt, and thereby inverted the hierarchical order in creation [think pyramid], so that all of the creation is now subjected to decay.<br /><br />Good to hear from you, Brent God bless you!<br /><br /><br />Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-2290105638880803332015-08-02T18:19:58.038-07:002015-08-02T18:19:58.038-07:00Ms. Linsley, another view is the possibility that ...Ms. Linsley, another view is the possibility that humanoids developed 'a-morphologically' over eons into different kinds of specie; i.e., homo sapiens as we know us on earth were planted and re-planted by prior (and still possibly living) species until it "took", as it were (which might account for some chrono gaps in the Darwinian schematic)...and possibly genetically altered in the planting stage into the natural fallen creatures we are. As Charles Williams puts it (or words to the effect), "We all sinned in Adam." Maybe we're pre-disposed to do so, to be God-haters naturally, to use language of the Calvinists. But as St. Paul says, there is still the evidence of natural revelation we can still respond to and even in our genetic fouled-up make-up in which we have a "propensity to sin" (be disordered). I have no evidence other than too many Star Trek episodes and speculative mental fantasies to offer as proof. Yet I sometimes wonder if homo sapiens were/are an outlier of much older (eons-long) genetic material of older and perhaps varied specie, who might very well love G-d naturally and be pre-disposed to his momentary bidding. If this speculation is worth any thing, it answers the question of how we appeared here unheralded millions of years ago...and at various chronological points; also how carnivorous dinosaurs lived millions of years ago before "the Fall"...at least as how the discussion about it is frequently framed and discussed. This view raises other questions, I know, so it's just speculation. ...When I took my Religion, Ed, and Demo course through Harvard a couple of years ago, one of the three breakout groups explored the "evolution/creation" question. Yet the questions posited for the participants were framed in conventional ways. Frustrating. I thought I would get no traction so opted for the LGBTQ forum instead. Not sure that worked out any better for me, ha. ...Please keep up the good and valuable work on your blog. I hope you're doing well. Best, BrentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-83999163236761968642015-07-31T15:33:33.489-07:002015-07-31T15:33:33.489-07:00The creation is a reflection of the Creator in its...The creation is a reflection of the Creator in its fixed and unchanging patterns. These are as mysterious as the One who created them. There are limits to what humans can understand.Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-34171183785245603172015-07-31T10:41:15.623-07:002015-07-31T10:41:15.623-07:00Do you think, given enough time, with our minds, o...Do you think, given enough time, with our minds, our senses, and the tools we invent, it is possible to completely understand the natural laws that govern the universe?<br /><br />Or is nature an infinite onion that we can peel forever and never get to the core?DManAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05593787926481525896noreply@blogger.com