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fall

My Twilight ignorance and the necessary sin of Adam

December 10, 2009

I was intrigued to read both Ken Brown’s post on the Twilight series and Daniel McClellan’s erudite response. I confess right up front that I have not read any of Ms Meyer’s books. I have seen the film of Twilight, and I must say that at no point did I sit up and think “that’s [...]

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No Adam, no Fall? Wrestling with sin and science.

October 18, 2009

(This post is one of a sporadic series on the Church of England’s Thirty-nine Articles)
Last week I posted a first look at the Church of England’s ninth article on original sin. In passing, I noted that there are other ways of reading the story told in Genesis 3. The Pauline retelling of Adam’s fall is [...]

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Sin – how original!

October 13, 2009

(This post is one of a sporadic series on the Church of England’s Thirty-nine Articles)
I remember Bishop David Jenkins, who rather revelled in his reputation as the enfant terrible of the English bishops, beginning a sermon at the (evangelical) St John’s College, Nottingham, by saying: “I don’t believe in original sin.” He paused for effect [...]

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Did the serpent get it right?

August 10, 2009

Claude Mariottini has a provocative post today on the interpretation of Genesis 3. I must say that this is one of the reasons I read his blog regularly. He approaches the Bible in ways and with questions that simply don’t occur to me. Sometimes that leaves me wondering why he thinks something matters, more often [...]

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