I saw others posting this question and I need to hear a coherent answer on this. Either this world is terrible because of Adam's sin or it's a wondrous place showing God's beauty. Can't have it both ways.
2006-11-07 10:01:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In his Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin addresses this question. Sin has warped and deranged the world such that divine grace and sovereignty are no longer evident in the same why that they were in Eden. Still, this warping does not mean that it has ceased to be that "the heavens are telling the glory of God and the firmament proclaims his handiwork" (Psalm 19). Rather, the goodness of God's Creation remains but it is hidden and distorted by the effects of the fall. In particular, the warping of human perception has made it so that we too often do not understand what the creation proclaims for we ourselves are broken too. For Calvin, the answer lay in two places. First, in the reconciliation of Jesus Christ to mend what is broken and so open our eyes again to see the world and through scripture which acts as "a pair of spectacles" through which we can see and understand the world more clearly.
2006-11-07 10:14:40 · answer #1 · answered by loammi8 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in 7 days God created the heavens and the earth. last of the seven days God created Adam and Eve. God created the earth to his liking it was perfect it was not until Adam and Eve sinned did we start making this world what it is now. therefor the world was not made due to Adams sin it is still the beauty that God made it is like a car u can keep it from rusting and falling apart if u take care of it. We just have not taken care of the beauty that God made it is still there we just have to look for it
2006-11-07 18:51:51 · answer #2 · answered by rob van 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The beauty of the world was created before Adam sinned.
2006-11-07 18:02:55 · answer #3 · answered by scary g 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The beauty of the world was created prior to Adam's sin. Because of Adam's sin God kicked Adam and Eve out of the garden thus causing them to have to create a life for themselves. We live with the consequences of that sin, The Knowledge of Good and Evil. Something God obviously told Adam and Eve they did not need. So we don't live with the original beauty of God's creation we only have an essence of it.
2006-11-07 18:12:37 · answer #4 · answered by cocoajewel 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
why can't you. Can you know sweet with out knowing sour? Good is only so because we know and understand bad. To say that the world seased to be wonderous when adam sinned is to say that God seased to exist when adam sinned.
And why is all of this suddenly Adams fault. His sin does not cause me to sin. I will be judged for my sins not my fathers, my sons, or Adams. The only thing Adam has caused in my life is my ability to gain a physical body. With out his choice to partake of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil I would not have had that oportunity. I am greatful for Adam. "Adam fell that man might be and men are that they might have joy". Stop blaming Adam and look in the mirror.
2006-11-07 18:42:44 · answer #5 · answered by Richmond C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The beauty in this world is the creation of the natural world. Look at the oceans, mountains...flowers, sunrise and sunsets...look at man. We are the image bearers of the living God.
The evil in this world was from the fall of man (Eve first, then Adam) in the Garden of Eden.
Where did you get that you can't have both?
2006-11-07 18:09:32 · answer #6 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The beauty of the world was created BEFORE Adam's sin. Read the account of creation in the book of Genesis.....the world was created before man was....otherwise where was he placed? He was placed in the garden of Eden that was already created.....
2006-11-07 18:05:51 · answer #7 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The natural beauty of the world shows God's existence--just look at the sunrise/sunset, and you will see God's beauty. It's what we humans have done to this world that reflects Adam's sin.
2006-11-07 18:04:46 · answer #8 · answered by Forget My Name. 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You are right. It cannot go both ways. The earth and our universe is a wondrous place.
2006-11-07 18:03:46 · answer #9 · answered by flugelberry 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You mean there can't be a such thing as "beautiful despite the flaws"?
2006-11-07 18:04:48 · answer #10 · answered by Maria Isabel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋