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Adam, the Fall, and Original Sin: Theological, Biblical, and Scientific Perspectives is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Christian doctrines of original sin and the historical fall of Adam have been in retreat since the rise of modernity. Here leading scholars present a theological, biblical, and scientific case for the necessity of belief in original sin and the historicity of Adam and Eve in response to contemporary challenges. Representing various Christian traditions, the contributors shed light on recent...

is then bent in a U with the turning point at the point of sin, the result would be that the two arms of the U would place the equivalent elements opposite each other.18 This is not as convincing a structure because the elements are not exactly matched, and one of the pair may be described much more succinctly than the other. Nevertheless there is a structure whereby the things that are in place before the transgression are seen to be lost after the transgression. (See further below.) The effect
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