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And Jehovah God commanded the
man. saying Of every tree Of the garden
thou mayest freely eat; but Of the tree
Of knowledge Of good and evil. thou
shalt not eat Of it for in the day thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis II : 1911.
The fall Of Adam is the keystone Of
the arch of saeri6cizI theology. IL is
the central fact around which all other
facts group themselves Whatever else
churches and sects may have differed
about. all schools and ereeds have had
a eommen belief. that Adam somehow
fell, and thereby brought disastrous re-
suits upon his race Whatever fierce
quarrels have arisen concerning the mode
in which Paradise Is to be '.regained; ;"
there has been remarkable unanimity Of
opinion that Paradise has been "lost,
aud lost through the disobedience Of the
first nan in the worlds early morning
The basis Of the saerifcisl theology Is
this suppositious fact Of primevaI trans
gression and ruin All its schemes Of
salvation presuppose this. are baseless
without it. like a building without a
cornerstone. like branches of 4 tree
without any connecting and supporting
trunk
1t IS Adams fall which originates hu-
man depravity. 1t IS Adams fall and
the consequent sinfulness Of the human
race, which gives birth to the plan Of
salvation, and which necessitates the
sacrifice Of Christ as an infinite atone
meut to outraged Deity. It Is Adams
fall which destroys the earthly Paradise
and eompels the regeneration Of poIlu-
ted planet Indeed some have gone 50
far as 60 say that it Is Adams fall which
brings death into the world and taints
mankind with the mould Of mortality.
which causes all sickness and pain, con-
strains all labor and striving, produces
all seeming evil Adams fall which
puts the thirst for blood in the tigers
mouth. equips the eagle with his fierce
eye and terrible beak. fills the shark
with saEageness, and generates venom
IN the serpeut's fangs; Adams fall
which causes weeds 70 grow instead Of
corn, thistles instead Of roses, which dis
tiIls the poison Of the upas and crowds
the tropical thieket with dangerous
grOEths- Were it not for Adams fall,
earth would have been perpetual Par
adise. there would have been no sin. no
wrong no evil. no fear, no labor. no
struggle, No warfare, no disappointment,
10 Weariness, no pain. no s0rrOw. no
sickness. no death We're It not for
Adams fall. there would have been no
human depravity, no outraged Deity. No
plan Of salvation. no need Of an infinite
sacrifice, or an Infinite atouement-
We certainly Do not mean 20 assert
that all those who nOuinaIly assent to
the saeri6cial theology regard the fall Of
Adam as having such extreme influence.
But some have thus regarded It, and al
, theoretically consider the destiny Of the
human race TO have been CHANGED there
by. All ereeds and confessions affirm
that angelic purity was then lost, that
depravity then entered nan. that by this
act he fell so far from God. that the ru-
IN could only be partially remed1ed BY
the sacrifice Of Christ. And although
at the present day most reject the notion
that the constitution Of the vegetable
: and animal creation has changed By
Adams sin. yet Milton writes that vher
Eve pIucked and ate the fruit.
Earth eIz she wound and nature rrum her seat
signing through Al her WORKS. gave signs 0f woe,
That al was lost
He also says that now the element:
were made malignant, the poles Of the
earth were .-pHshed Obique" and the
seasons changed from perpetual spring
to winters biting cold and summer
burning heat, that diseord aud death
we're n0W introduced among irrztiOnal
creatures
Beast nav with beast gave war. and sIwi wisl
And fan Eith aah . zrazs ne herb Al leaving
! Degoursst each ether
! Milton both expressed the thought o.
bis agE and stamped his thought ca af
ter generatious- Through bis mighty
verse, more. perhaps. than from the b
be. We gain the belief that
IN Afalnfs saa- ws suued an
Since such pr0uInence has been given
BY the saerifciAl theolOgy TO this thru
chapter Of Genesis Is Is we'll 70 eIzmin,
it carefully. If It's statements are re
eeiyed as authority, If systems Of theol
Ogy and plans Of salvation are based uH
ou them, It Is Of greatest importance =
understand Just what those ssatenent
are and what Il their exact meaning
For if 1t should happen that they do no
: Justify the doctrines usually built upol
; them- Il Il should happen thas there va
; ~ fall Of ADAM CT II Il had 10 suei
E world running consequence then ]
? would seem that the saeriicizl thealog1
5 beng deprived of It's corne--ssoue mus
: tumble into logieal ruin and must be rs
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