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Originally Posted by Lafon
I MUST disagree with your assertion, for its premise is that when God, who is PERFECT (see Matthew 5:48), created Adam and Eve, He created them as IMPERFECT human beings.
Does not the infallible, inerrant words of Genesis 1:31 explicitly state that at the end of His act of creating the heavens and the earth on the sixth day, including ALL things that are therein, "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good"?
I am persuaded to believe that when God created the substantive body of Adam, as well as Eve, their bodies were meant to be immortal, however, when rebellion and sin entered the human experience, which brought into existence the "promised" judgment of death upon Adam's body, then it became a corrupt thing, therefore inheriting mortality as a result. If it were that sin had never entered into the human experience, Adam and Eve's bodies would never have died! |
Beloved, my statement agrees with scripture
"Let us make man in our image...likeness...So God
created man...". And then: "And God
formed man from the dust of the ground."
You are correct from the point of view of
Gen. 2:7. Adam's BODY OF FLESH, like our own,
was not perfect because it was to know sin and death. That said, however, Adam was
created
in God's image and likeness: eternal. God knew Adam was to sin, so He did not create him in
an immortal body, but
"...formed him from the dust of the ground." That is, from a substance
(earth) that was
not destined to be eternal! Thus, Adam's body
was mortal from the beginning,
although death did not occur until sin was conceived.
Now, if the body of man was to be immortal, or not eternal, then so also that from which the body
was formed. That is not the case: for this universe was also created with a beginning and an end:
else why do the scriptures state
"In the beginning...".
Tell me, from where or from what was this universe created? If God is eternal, and fills eternity,
where was the universe?
"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word
of God, so that things that are seen were not made of things which do appear."
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