(August 17, 2022 at 2:05 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Growing up in the SDA church, I learned what I thought was a very common narrative on the story of the fall and subsequent redemption of mankind.
If anyone wants to answer, I'm curious what you believe the overarching biblical plot is—what is the story behind the scenes in other words—whether it's your own interpretation or the one you were taught. What led up to the creation mankind, and where is it all going after the fall?
(Or do you even process it as a fall/redemption story in the first place? Perhaps that phrasing is already too bounded for some interpretations.)
The same story where god lies, the snake tells the truth, and Adam and Eve get banished because god's worried about competition? Not the best basis for a theology.
A few centuries after he got tacked up, the church finally realized that they had an apocalyptic messiah with no apocalypse. Embarrassing just how often the world fails to end on cue from the lunatic fringe. Jesus, now unemployed, is put to work atoning for your sins, because that's not at all morally dubious. Of course there's always some bastard who has led a good life, so the church concocts The Fall to ensure that everybody is sinful from the instant that they're whelped. Turns out that substitutionary atonement for sins that you never committed by a failed messiah that never actually gave a sailing shit about you is a real money maker.
