(May 29, 2014 at 4:41 am)Godschild Wrote: I believe it was because Adam and Eve were the first people and no one else could carry on the line, th Bible says nothing about any children until after the fall.The JWs saw it this way also, that imperfection became an inherited trait and without a perfect human to prove that it was possible to remain loyal to god under any circumstance, there was no way to change this. Hence Christ being referred to as a redeemer of mankind; unless someone perfect stepped up, humanity was in a death spiral of sorts.
I have issues with that concept also, but I also find myself short on time this past few days and at least the upcoming week. I am satisfied with your answers to the other questions and thank you for an interesting discussion of the issue. I might be able to pick it up later in June.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
