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Adam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 1
The first human being is named Adam in Genesis 1. In today’s English we capitalize some words to make them names. Thus, chastity is a virtue, but Chastity is a name someone might give a child. No such distinction is made in Hebrew, to this very day. So it would be more accurate to say [...]
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One Sons, Three Times: The Peculiar Case of 1 Chronicles 1:31
The first nine chapters of Chronicles contain, in genealogical forms, the entire history of Israel from Adam to the return from the Babylonian exile. To the uninterested reader, these nine chapters may appear like some birth certificates that just got misplaced. Upon closer examination, these nine chapters reveal a wealth of data about the self-image [...]
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augsburg wednesday, article 2: original sin
Source here. Also they teach that, after Adam’s fall, all men begotten after the common course of nature are born with sin; that is, without the fear of God, without trust in him, and with fleshly appetite; and that this disease, or original fault, is truly sin, condemning and bringing eternal death now also upon [...]
the three curses of genesis 3
14 Jehovah God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. 15 You will move upon your belly, and you will eat dust all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between [...]
is adam israel? maybe, but peter enns of biologos doesn’t do a favor to the theory
Or if I may spell it out in more clearly, is the story of Adam in the beginnings of Genesis a story of the beginning of mankind, or of Israel? Though I still think of it as a story of mankind, the BioLogos foundation is back to its job of making theology and modern scientific [...]
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on biblical historicity
Here‘s an argument for Adam being a real historical figure. It goes at it not from an angle that focuses on the meaning of particular Hebrew or Greek words or phrases, but rather from the doctrine of the fall and its centrality to our understanding of who Jesus is and what he did for us. [...]
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Adam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 2