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Ancient Near East, Cosmology, Genesis, Original Sin, Polemics, theologyLeave a comment

Adam as Priest?

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In Genesis 2:15-3:24, we have God establishing a covenant of Works with Adam. The imagery of Genesis 1-3 in the ANE pictured a cosmic temple. This motif is to foreshadow the tabernacle. This motif leaves us with Adam as a high priest in God’s cosmic temple representing all of mankind before the LORD of host. As commentators see the language picturing the work a Priest does in the OT. If we keep Romans 5:12-19 and Genesis 3 in mind, then it seems more than likely that Adam is our representative “Priest” before God in the Garden. The fall of Adam … Continue reading Adam as Priest?

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Gods of the Bible?

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My comments on this video: Tyler Vela states: “Is polemical language not a much easier resolve here than positing a realm of actually existing beings? Don’t Christians speak this way now – that God is greater than all the gods of Hinduism? Allah? The gods of money, sex, and power? Do we not often reify supposed gods to make the comparison relevant?” I respond: I think this is just a problem in language itself and Michael Heiser is unfamiliar with logic. We often refer to things that don’t exist as if they did. “Unicorns have a horn” seems to imply … Continue reading Gods of the Bible?

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Divine Impassibility by Paul Helm

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Divine Impassibility: Why Is It Suffering? By Paul Helm Emeritus Professor, University of London The doctrine of God’s impassibility has fallen on hard times. In the era of the Suffering God and of “Holocaust theology” scarcely anyone has a good word to say for it.[1] This in itself is a striking fact, given the Christian church’s eras-long commitment to the doctrine. These days nearly everyone sees the eclipse of divine impassibility as an unqualified blessing. For them the idea is totally unscriptural, a case of “baptised paganism,” an object lesson in what happens when theology takes its lead not from … Continue reading Divine Impassibility by Paul Helm

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Adam’s First Sin

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In discussing Adam we are at the disadvantage of the Biblical evidence is at a minimum. We agree that Libertarianism fails to answer the question as well. That nobody is free from the eternal decrees of Lord Jesus. We have alternative explanations for why Adam sinned. The origin of Sin is a difficult issue, but possible. We have the Edwards-Anderson(mysterian) response and another more uncommon one. Edwards in the Freedom of the Will wrote: Concerning sins first Entrance into the world. The things which have already been offered, may serve to obviate or clear many of the objections which might … Continue reading Adam’s First Sin