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1 | evolving or devolving? | Matt 16:28 | jonp | 183826 | ||
Hi stj. I will agree that Adam was an intellectual giant within the world in which he lived before the Fall. But he did not know how to split the atom. God had not provided a library. And he had not developed the skill of counting. He did not need it. Life was too idyllic to want to go to school. You must not confuse intelligence with skills that have to be learned. No one is born able to count or read. It has to be learned. I doubt too whether he knew that he had reached 930 years. With all the modern resources at my disposal I find it easy to forget how old I am, for it is not important. Why should Adam want to keep a record of his age? He was far too intelligent to worry about that. I was of course using the term history metaphorically to indicate those who lived in historical times, and to indicate that we learrn from history. Let us not argue about terms. It is the heart of the matter that is important. But happily we may disagree and part friends. I did not answer your question partly because it contained loaded terms which need to be defined,and partly because I felt that you thought that you knew the answer already. Best wishes jonp | ||||||
2 | evolving or devolving? | Matt 16:28 | humbledbyhisgrace | 183828 | ||
Greetings jonp! Perhaps the discussion has reached a point it is no longer productive. It appears it has lead to assumptions that cannot be proven by scripture and therefore is only one's opinion. The fact is, none of us know what Adam's intellectual knowledge was outside of what the scriptures reveal to us. Anything after that is speculation at best. Was Adam born a child? Are you assuming what he understood was "learned" like a new born child? Assumptions that cannot be argued from scripture leads to bad teaching. Keep in mind there are many who read along with the post and when we become none scriptural we run a great risk of confusing and/or misleading others. I don't think that is your intent but unfortunately that is where we end up when we become dogmatic on things that cannot be proven by scripture. By Faith, Steve |
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3 | evolving or devolving? | Matt 16:28 | stjohn | 183832 | ||
Hi steve, I humbly agree. Thank you! peas stj |
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