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7th November 2005, 03:31 PM
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The fathers of the Church taught that Adam and Eve were created with perfect bodies but inherited death and decay after the fall. We know now that we are the descendents of bipedal apes and that our bodies have never been "perfect".
The resurrection of the flesh was once believed to be the restoration of who we were as humans before the fall. However, if we have always lived in the imperfect bodies of hairless apes, what good would a resurrection of the flesh be? Will my genes have retroviral insertions for eternity?
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7th November 2005, 05:54 PM
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7th November 2005, 09:15 PM
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Reps: 295,212,687,427,838,720 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by Matthew777 The fathers of the Church taught that Adam and Eve were created with perfect bodies but inherited death and decay after the fall. We know now that we are the descendents of bipedal apes and that our bodies have never been "perfect".
The resurrection of the flesh was once believed to be the restoration of who we were as humans before the fall. However, if we have always lived in the imperfect bodies of hairless apes, what good would a resurrection of the flesh be? Will my genes have retroviral insertions for eternity?
Peace.
Apparantly it's time to re-think the beliefs. |
7th November 2005, 09:48 PM
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Reps: 2,494 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by Nathan Poe Apparantly it's time to re-think the beliefs.
Personally, this leads me to believe that the resurrection of the material body may be unnecessary. Furthermore, with the resurrection of Christ, it seems that His flesh transformed into a spiritual body with a physical presense, explaining the empty tomb and how He was able to walk through walls.
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7th November 2005, 10:22 PM
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7th November 2005, 10:27 PM
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Reps: 2,494 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by Grengor Maybe it's not the reanimation of flesh but the transformation of human to God Almighty.
You believe that humans turn into God?
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7th November 2005, 10:36 PM
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Reps: 12,682 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by Matthew777 However, if we have always lived in the imperfect bodies of hairless apes, what good would a resurrection of the flesh be?
Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
At creation God said that everything was good. So your idea that a hairless ape, or even a hairy ape is less than perfect is not backed up by scripture. All of creation fell with Adam and Eve and all of creation will be restored.
From a TE prespective, we do not know how long it took God to create Adam, it could have been a day, a week or a month. Or it could have been millions or billions of years for God to get Adam to where we find him in the Garden.
Most people do not understand very much about Adam and Eve and the garden before the fall, so they do not understand what the earth will be like after God restores it to His plan and purpose. |
8th November 2005, 01:26 AM
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Reps: 2,393 (power: 12) | | | It was more on the lines of a quote someone tossed around here a while ago. Something like Jesus was captured tortured crucified and killed human, but reborn God Almighty.
"You believe that humans turn into God?" |
8th November 2005, 02:13 AM
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8th November 2005, 02:19 AM
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