#7 On Adam's vs Satan's Fall (Midrash)
This is out of order from the original, as thematically it is tangential and confusing. Reverend Law here is responding to the Midrash, which most Christians are unfamiliar with, except perhaps as hearsay or at best having read John Milton's great poem, Paradise Lost, also heavily based on it. The link for Paradise Lost takes you not to the poem but to the SparksNotes of it so you can read the highlights of it and see if you want to take up a full study of it. Like Dante's Inferno, it is a big poem and a real undertaking, but again, worth the time and effort. Reverend Law uses Milton, at the time it was widely read or least popularly known, because his audience compromises not only of lapsed or even unknowing Christians (like academics), but also Jews who neither understand how Christian theology is indebted to the Old Testament as part of their Holy Bible nor realize the importance of the tie. The Midrash is Jewish commentary...