12-05-2007, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Amazing Grace
Why do you think it is in there as such? It is very inconsistant. Yet this gives me no cause to denounce the whole document. Just proves it is neither inerrant nor infallible. What could be done to rewrite this correctly? And did you mean heading VI Fred? HAP. VI. - Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof.
1. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtilty and temptation of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin, God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory.
2. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion, with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.
3. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed; and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.
| These are interesting points; surely Romans 5 teaches that it was Adam's sin, not our first parent's sin, which was imputed to us as Adam alone was our federal head??  |  and I will contribute to its offtopicness...
Could it be that they essentially see Adam's sin as his and her sin because they are essentially the same person? She is bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh and at their marriage he 'cleaved' unto her and they became 'one flesh'? The idea that a married couple are essentially one person with different identities is carried throughout the Bible. Perhaps the Divine's view was that the reference to 'Adam' in Rom 5 is not a reference to Adam as an individual, but to Adam as the head of a family. This would jibe with Eve 'being decieved, was in the transgression.' (1 Tim 2:14)
Just thinking off the top of my head. | That is a very interesting point. I look forward to reading the responses. Though I would not entirely say it was Ken, as we are discussing the role of the confessions in the life of the church. 
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