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The Fall and Sin: What We Have Become as Sinners is unavailable, but you can change that!

The devastating evils of recent history have brought about renewed interest in the Christian doctrine of sin. This volume explores with fresh insight and great seriousness the contemporary plausibility, meaning, and relevance of the biblical understanding of the Fall and its effects. Marguerite Shuster argues that certain aspects of the traditional doctrine of the Fall, including the belief that...

of the Old Testament and of human experience in what may be argued to be only one of several possible ways.31 And it is surely true that the Old Testament provides a great deal of material ready to be interpreted. In approaching this material, we frankly acknowledge that we do use the concept of progressive revelation, which means that the way the New Testament utilizes the data carries great weight for us.32 Thus, we consider Paul’s particular appropriation of Genesis 3 in Romans 5:12 to be highly
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