I've made an argument that it isn't, and you simply dismissed it. If I can hold to a doctrine of the fall in light of my own interpretation of Scripture, then what does it matter? We're not bound to have identical interpretations of individual passages of Scripture; we're bound to doctrinal unity. Is young earth six day creationism a doctrine in-and-of-itself? If so, why?
I'm trying to argue that by believing in evolution, you are undermining the doctrine of Scriptural inerrancy, and thus, do not fall within "doctrinal unity."
No, it's really not. As long as a person holds to a historic fall of a real historical Adam who really does mark the beginning of humanity's special relationship with God, then what bloody difference does it make? [...] Did you read 1 Corinthians 15:56? I'm reading them alongside one another.
It makes all the difference. Evolution posits that death was essential to the creation of modern man. Scripture posits that Adam brought death into the world.
While you're reading 1 Corinthians 15:56, you also might want to look at the following:
Of course, my original passage:
"Therefore,
just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned" Romans 5:12
But how about some other passages?
"But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive." 1 Corinthians 15:20-22
"For
if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ." Romans 5:17
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For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23
"So that,
as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 5:21
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Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come." Romans 5:14
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And let's not forget my personal favorite. You claim to believe in a literal Adam and a literal fall. So what was the point of God's warning when he told Adam:
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat,
for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Genesis 2:17
If Adam is warned that when he eats of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he will die, why is this a big deal? Didn't Adam's monkey ancestors die?
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Brother, you need to read Job 38.