THESIS 9: THE FALL OF MAN

Satan's temptation of man involved denying God's Word and promising evolution into political godhead.[25]

Because of this rebellion, the descendants of the First Adam experience

• a curse in nature: genetic disorder in plants,[26] animals,[27] and humans,[28] shortened lifespans,[29] non-sabbatic metabolism,[30] and in weather;[31]
• and spiritual darkness: this "original sin" is passed to subsequent generations sociologically (dysfunctional, compulsive urge to sin and death[32] in children and grandchildren[33]) and genetically (e.g., chemical imbalances associated with deviant behavior).[34]

The victory of the Second Adam

• reverses the curse (overcoming entropy[35] and restoring longevity[36])
• and dispels the darkness (victory over sin[37]) with effects passing to descendants for a thousand generations.[38]

Descendants of the Second Adam reject the Tempter's promises of political godhead.[39]

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm).

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

25. Genesis 3:5 [elohim]; 3:22; 11:6 #35, #42

26. Genesis 3:18

27. Romans 8:22

28. from inbreeding (Leviticus 18:6ff.)

29. Genesis 5; Psalm 90:10

30. need for meat in diet (Genesis 9:3)

31. termination of stable "greenhouse" effect (Genesis 2:5-6; 7:4)

32. Proverbs 8:36

33. Exodus 20:5; Leviticus 20:5; 26:39; Numbers 14:18

34. Proverbs 14:30; 17:22; Psalm 32:3; 2 Corinthians 7:10

35. Isaiah 55:13; Deuteronomy 29:5; Romans 8:19-23.

36. Isaiah 65:17-20,22; #91

37. Romans 8:1-4; #90

38. Exodus 20:6; Deuteronomy 5:10; 7:9; Jeremiah 32:39; Acts 2:39

39. Luke 4:1-13; Romans 5:15; 1 Corinthians 15:22; #75.

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