Here?s a post surveying some of God?s progressive revelation with Biblical references to Adam. Although Adam may not be focal point in some of these passages he may be a reference point. I?ll be working in reverse order.
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Berkeley’s Missing Link?
Here’s the link to the source material which I’ve also copied in case it disappears. Here’s another article. I know…old news to you, but I wanted to save it anyway.
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Tricky Death: Did Adam Die?
Everything the serpent has said proved true. Adam and Eve’s eyes were opened (Gen 3:7). They did become like God—seemingly independent. Thing is, everything he said also had a twist: they could see their nakedness and hid. They knew good and evil and were culpable. The serpent also said they wouldn’t die—and they didn’t die! Precedence would have us look at what exactly death means in the text and did it happen to Adam.
Lingamesh has a great series on Logic and Fallacies going on over at his blog?which spurred some (likely flawed) personal thinking in using a deductive argument on top of an inductive reasoning process. I?m wondering how often we do this with theological statements and doctrinal outlines. Go on over and have a look see (specifically the comments of this post for my questions).
Phil (from PhilThreeTen) brought up a point regarding election that bore some
investigation. I did this in the past, but since I don’t have access to my
computer I had to do the research over again. Basically I started going through
and finding references to “choiceâ€, “electâ€, “chosenâ€, “chosen one†(and
variations thereof) to see if election is used for an individual and if so—in
what sense. With very little commentary and with the disclaimer that this list
is in no way exhaustive (since I don’t have time to recreate days of research
in a few hours), here’s the list.