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Basically pulling an Obama (Thanks Calminian!)
2Chron 24:27 Accounts of his sons and of the many oracles against him and of the rebuilding of the house of God are written in the Story of the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place. Don't knock stories. Jesus told stories all the time."Stories" denigrates the Word of God. Gen 1 & 2 are accurate accounts of the one Creation and in no way make two "stories"
But if you see the Genesis stories as accurate historical accounts then you have the problem that the two accounts give completely different orders of creation.
You are falling into the trap Glaudys warned you against there ysm, you are mixing up the literal meaning of perishable, the simple fact that our bodies die and decay, with the metaphorical meaning, decay as a picture of moral corruption. Physical decay was simply the way God made our bodies. There is no moral aspect to it at all, unless you think there is something evil about a dead mouse or that ham left too long in the back of your fridge. Satan would only have had a hold on Jesus if there was moral corruption in his life, if he had sinned. But he never did. But this says nothing about his body being physically perishable.quote yeshuasavedme: Only Jesus' New Man body was not subject to corruption when He willingly gave His life for our redemption and departed His Glorious body and remained absent from it for three days and three nights [72 hours]; because "the prince of this world had nothing in Him" and so His body was not subject to corruption.Scripture does indeed say His body of second Man creation was not subject to death and corruption. -And if He had not "taken it back up" it would never, ever, evwer, have decayed, for Satan "possessed nothing in Himf [in His flesh]", which death and corruption do have in "all" Adamkind. The Adam body is called "the body of death".
[/color][/b]Psa 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Act 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Jhn 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me [has no legal right to my body].
He had Life to give for us because He was not a mortal human being until He willingly and freely gave His Life as our Ransom. If He had any corruption in His flesh or taint of mortality, then we are dead in our sins, because the Atonement was not Acceptable and final.
He tasted our mortality only when He had our sins and iniquities laid on His soul by the Father [Isaiah 53].
You are talking about a hypothetical role Adam was never given, and God knew Adam would never be given this without the human race being redeemed first. As Adam was never given it, never promised it, so he never lost it when he fell. He only really lost what he really had. Your theology of the gospel is built around a hypothetical blessing scripture never says Adam had, and never says he lost, yet you think people who do not see it the way you do are denying the gospel. Your hypothetical picture is fine in itself, if it gives you a deeper appreciation of what Christ achieved, go for it, but do not think that other people who do not share your speculative theology are denying the gospel.
He was made to ascend to and sit upon the throne of Glory in the heavenlies, when the Royal assemblies were called. He would have, too, if he had passed the test. He would have always represented his seed there. He died in the fall and never ascended to that throne.
You can read about that throne in Enoch, which the Son of Man will sit upon and rule the kingdom from.
Satan wanted that throne. He had a certain "light bearer" all "pumped up" to believe that he could take it, too [Isa 14:13-14 ; and possibly the same Cherub as Eze 28:13-15:].
But Jesus ransomed the earth and got the right to it, though, as the "Son of Man".
We who are redeemed are waiting for the call for our time of assembly in the heavenlies, when we will be gathered to Him at the time of the "laqach"/rapture of us, to be with Him where He is, and we will be rewarded with thrones of glory to sit upon, by Him. -the theme of redemption "back", is "for the Glory".
All that was promised was a seed of Eve who would step on the snake's head. The rest is allegorical interpretation, good allegorical interpretation, but still allegory. And given Jesus never stepped on a literal snake, and as you realise yourself, Adam is the name God gave the human race, given that the second creation story gives a completely different chronology to the first, I would see the whole story of Adam and Eve as an allegory of the creation of mankind and our fall. But there is no particular rule in scripture that we must understand allegory one particular way or we deny the Gospel. Allegories are helpful pictures, but they are not fundamental to the gospel or salvation.Adam is the name of our kind, and the head of our kind was promised the redemption by the Seed of the Woman in the same day that he fell and was cast out of the Garden -and we fell in him, because we were the seed in his loins who were already written in the Book of Life, to come into our being in "Adam". as "sons of God" -of the human kind.
But that idea about us falling in Adam because we were seeds in his loins is Augustine, not scripture.
Paul was highly educated in all the Jewish theology of the time.And Paul read Enoch and made many comments in his writings based on what he read in Enoch; just as Jesus, John, Peter, and the womb brothers of Jesus, Jude and James, did. Paul is making his remarks only because of the revelations given to Enoch. -Paul writes of not one thing that is not already written before him, in Enoch, in Jasher, and in Moses [the Law] and the prophets.
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