Adam created mortal?

[judge]

As early as the sixteenth council of carthage in 412 a.d.it appears that the idea of adam being born mortal was considered heresy.


"I think it is important in showing how compelling the logic of Scripture is in its record of the fall of Adam and the consequences to himself and his descendants, that solely on this basis the Council of Carthage in A.D. 412 condemned as heresy the three following propositions:

(1) Adam was created mortal and would have died whether he had sinned or not.
(2) The sin of Adam hurt only himself, and not all mankind.
(3) Newborn infants die in the same state as Adam was in before the Fall."

This quote apears....here......

http://www.custance.org/Library/Volume3/Part_VII/Chapter1.html


What is the history of the idea that adam was created mortal?
Is it one that has emerged (or re-emerged) with Darwinism?

 

[Knight]

I've never heard of this before.

The Bible clearly states that death came into the world when Adam sinned.

 

[Theresa]

Adam was a finite creature, in a mortal body, but his mortal body was not meant to die. So then, pysical death was a consequence of Original Sin.

 

[A Brethren IN CHRIST]

1 cor 15:22

 

[Photini]

In patristic tradition, it is held that he was created neither mortal or immortal, but with the possibility of becoming mortal or immortal.

 

[Reformationist]

Adam was a finite creature, in a mortal body, but his mortal body was not meant to die. So then, pysical death was a consequence of Original Sin.

Hmmm...I'd have to say that I agree with this.

There seems to be a direct correlation between sinning and dying. IOW, if he were to have obeyed God and not sinned then he would have lived, though he would still have been mortal. Because he rebelled his physical body immediately started dying, though it did not fully, physically perish until some time later.

God bless