My buddy Cory has some great thoughts today on Adam & Eve, sin and the current state of the world (I won’t tell you what he says, but he really doesn’t like Augustinian theodicy). He raises some good questions and poses some good thoughts. Was the eventual “fall” of Adam & Eve a fall out of a pristine, perfect condition, or was it more so an eventual progression, the next step of living into the fullness of their humanity? And if Adam & Eve were simply making the next step in their fulfillment of becoming human (which would seem to answer the question, “If God really didn’t want them to eat of that tree, then why did God put it there in the Garden?” – because God would have known that it would be inevitable, and actually “good” for them to eat from it) – what does that say about the state of humanity’s nature, the role of Christ on earth, the role of Christ on the cross…some good questions.
NEWER PAPER UPDATE: I’m not planning on combining the papers…just doing two separate papers. The other paper is going to be on Open Theism and comparing it to Process Theology…should be interesting. Anyone out there read much Open Theism or Process stuff…? Leave me some good links please.