[Pryr-1.1-16 or pg 24] From this short, yet plain and true Account of this Matter, we are delivered from a Load of Difficulties that have been raised about the Fall of Man, and Original Sin. It has been a great Question for all Christians, How could the Goodness of God so punish such a small and single an Act of Disobedience in Adam, with so great a Punishment as Eternal Sin?
Well to be honest, that Question has little to do with God, but more with logic and sense because Adam's Punishment was just a miserable Change that came upon him: he was transformed from an Angelic Nature to a Bestial One.
So of course, another, and the greatest Question of all, is What kind of Divine would do this to him Adam & then to all his Posterity? But here, it may be said, that this Question is equally ridiculous because There is no Imputation {assignment} of the Sin of Adam to his Posterity, never once is that mentioned in the Holy Bible, and so there is no Foundation for a Dispute.
How absurd would it be to say, that God imputes the Nature of Adam for all of his Posterity? That would mean that God is damning Adam (us) for all Mankind. Nonsense.
Instead, would not the children of Adam have the same Nature (Physical Makeup, Structure and Looks) of Adam because of their natural Birth and that they came from a Man so that they too should be one? That logic is no different than that a “leopard cannot change his spots” (from Jeremiah 13:23) because the leopard cannot be anything but a leopard. Nor can a horse be something other than itself, can it? And since now that Adam was on their level, how could his children be anything other their makers, ordinary human mortals.
Instead therefore about the former Question, which is quite beside the Matter, it really should have been asked , How it would it be consistent that Adam could generate Children of a Nature and Kind that would be quite superior to himself? Can man beget a cat? Or a leopard? Or could it be vice verse? There is no historical, nor logical precedent for that matter, that shows either are possible within the Laws of Nature.
Of course like the modern day anti-realists (or nihilists) Medieval magicians will tell you though, that there are no laws of nature and that by understanding the secret of "alchemy",* & then armed with their Philosopher's Stone they could create a silk purse from a sow's ear and unveil all the other “hidden” secrets of the Universe with their "tincture" or powder such as transforming base metals to precious ones like gold.
Alas, history has not proved that either, though went further and believed that an elixir of life “elixir vitae” could be derived from it, and so once again man would not need God but could be immortal upon himself.
That rather interesting idea brings us to the Rebellion of the Angels who thought that they too could oust God from his Throne and run the Heavens without him. Well that did not work and neither did the alchemical arts, though man has tried throughout various centuries and all over the plant for such a “Fountain of Youth”.
Instead the only Question that can be asked with relation to God is why did not Adam listen? Not why could Adam not generate children of a nature and kind that was quite superior to himself for plainly that is false. The reason is why sin is found in all the sons of Adam, because Adam was of earthly flesh and blood and cannot bring forth a holy angel out of himself, any more than a magician can create gold from nothing: if one is part of nature, then one must operate within its Laws & Boundaries.
Only God himself can do otherwise, for How could it be anyway else?
And so it can be truly written and said that all the laborious volumes on God's assigning Adam's sin to his posterity ought to be considered as it truly is: nothing more than waste paper.
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See Appeal to all that Doubt, also by Rev Law for a further discussion of this topic. The good man wrote a lot, what else do you do when there is no tv to whittle it away? Read and write. Now we twitter.
*The original purpose of alchemy was the creation of gold from dross i.e. the famous saying of making silk from a sow's ear is based upon that. The picture of Adele Blauer-Bloch is shown because Klimt used a lot of gold dust for it, as she was rich and wanted to show her vanity and wealth. Obviously it was a pricey piece to paint.
Well to be honest, that Question has little to do with God, but more with logic and sense because Adam's Punishment was just a miserable Change that came upon him: he was transformed from an Angelic Nature to a Bestial One.
So of course, another, and the greatest Question of all, is What kind of Divine would do this to him Adam & then to all his Posterity? But here, it may be said, that this Question is equally ridiculous because There is no Imputation {assignment} of the Sin of Adam to his Posterity, never once is that mentioned in the Holy Bible, and so there is no Foundation for a Dispute.
How absurd would it be to say, that God imputes the Nature of Adam for all of his Posterity? That would mean that God is damning Adam (us) for all Mankind. Nonsense.
Instead, would not the children of Adam have the same Nature (Physical Makeup, Structure and Looks) of Adam because of their natural Birth and that they came from a Man so that they too should be one? That logic is no different than that a “leopard cannot change his spots” (from Jeremiah 13:23) because the leopard cannot be anything but a leopard. Nor can a horse be something other than itself, can it? And since now that Adam was on their level, how could his children be anything other their makers, ordinary human mortals.
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| Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Blauer-Bloch i |
Of course like the modern day anti-realists (or nihilists) Medieval magicians will tell you though, that there are no laws of nature and that by understanding the secret of "alchemy",* & then armed with their Philosopher's Stone they could create a silk purse from a sow's ear and unveil all the other “hidden” secrets of the Universe with their "tincture" or powder such as transforming base metals to precious ones like gold.
Alas, history has not proved that either, though went further and believed that an elixir of life “elixir vitae” could be derived from it, and so once again man would not need God but could be immortal upon himself.
That rather interesting idea brings us to the Rebellion of the Angels who thought that they too could oust God from his Throne and run the Heavens without him. Well that did not work and neither did the alchemical arts, though man has tried throughout various centuries and all over the plant for such a “Fountain of Youth”.
Instead the only Question that can be asked with relation to God is why did not Adam listen? Not why could Adam not generate children of a nature and kind that was quite superior to himself for plainly that is false. The reason is why sin is found in all the sons of Adam, because Adam was of earthly flesh and blood and cannot bring forth a holy angel out of himself, any more than a magician can create gold from nothing: if one is part of nature, then one must operate within its Laws & Boundaries.
Only God himself can do otherwise, for How could it be anyway else?
And so it can be truly written and said that all the laborious volumes on God's assigning Adam's sin to his posterity ought to be considered as it truly is: nothing more than waste paper.
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See Appeal to all that Doubt, also by Rev Law for a further discussion of this topic. The good man wrote a lot, what else do you do when there is no tv to whittle it away? Read and write. Now we twitter.
*The original purpose of alchemy was the creation of gold from dross i.e. the famous saying of making silk from a sow's ear is based upon that. The picture of Adele Blauer-Bloch is shown because Klimt used a lot of gold dust for it, as she was rich and wanted to show her vanity and wealth. Obviously it was a pricey piece to paint.
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