Fall and Salvation History

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Fall and Salvation History

• Image and likeness of God.
• Genesis 3.
• Ideas of the Fall Original Sin.
• Stories of origins.
• Covenants four major aspects.

Creation and the Expulsion from Paradise
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Core Christian beliefs about creation

• God created the world by his Word.
• The world was created out of nothing.
• The world is not self-sufficient, but depends
  upon God.
• Creation is a gradual process.
• Creation (in its original state) is good.
• Creation has order and purpose.
• God created humans in his image and likeness.
• God sustains the world.
• N. B. core beliefs are not the same as literal
  details of one of creation accounts in Genesis!

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Image and likeness of God
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Are we qualitatively different from animals?

• He man engages in play, is capable of
  abstract thought, laughter, formation and use of
  symbols, of learning and using symbolic language,
  of learning to distinguish between good and evil,
  to feel reverence and piety.
• --Theodosius Dobzhansky, The Biology of
  Ultimate Concern, p. 54.

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How did the devil get into the story?

• For God created us for incorruption, and made us
  in the image of his own eternity, but through the
  devils envy death entered the world, and those
  who belong to his company experience it.
• Wisdom of Solomon (late 1st c. BC or early 1st c
  CE) 2 23-24.

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Lucifers mysterious Fall

• 12How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star
  Lucifer, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to
  the ground, you who laid the nations low! 13You
  said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven I
  will raise my throne above the stars of God I
  will sit on the mount of assembly on the heights
  of Zaphon 14I will ascend to the tops of the
  clouds, I will make myself like the Most High."
  15But you are brought down to Sheol, to the
  depths of the Pit. --Isaiah 14 12-15.

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The Idea of the Fall of Adam in Hellenistic
Judaism

• O Adam, what have you done?
• For though it was you who sinned, the fall was
  not yours alone, but ours also who are your
  descendents.
• --4 Ezra (late 1th c. C.E.) 7 118. 9
• The first Adam, burdened with an evil heart,
  transgressed, and was overcome, as were also all
  who were descended from him.
• --4 Ezra 3 21.

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St. Pauls Adam/ Christ typology

• Therefore, just as sin came into the world
  through one man, and death came through sin, and
  so death spread to all because all have sinned
  Yet death exercised dominion from Adam to Moses,
  even over those whose sins were not like the
  transgression of Adam, who is a type of the one
  who was to come.
• --Romans 5 12, 14.

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Ever-increasing forms of evil

• The Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind
  was great in the earth, and that every
  inclinations of the thoughts of their hearts was
  only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry
  that he made humankind on the earth, and it
  grieved him to his heart. (Gen 6 5-6).
• Now the earth was corrupt and the earth was
  filled with violence. (Gen 6 11).
• The inclination of the human heart is evil from
  youth. (Gen 8 21).

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Flood
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Old Testament Stories of Origins
1. Gen 1 2 Origin of the world and of human
race 2. Gen 3 Origin of moral evil (sin). 3.
Gen 12-25 Origin of Israel. Patriarchs
AbrahamIsaacJacob12 sons. Abraham lived in Ur
of the Chaldeans (modern Iraq) ca. 1850-1750 BC.
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Covenant

• Divine introduction
• Divine promises
• Divine commandments (human obligations)
• Symbolic actions (signs, oaths, curses,
  sacrifices)

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