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Originally Posted by InChristAlone
In the EO tradition the eating of the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” is generally interpreted as man’s actual taste of evil, ...
. . . Originally man was made to be the created image of God, to live in union with God’s divine life, and to rule over all creation.
. . . And so he ruined both himself and the creation which he was given to care for and to cultivate. By his sin-and his sins—man brings himself and all creation under the rule of evil and death. . . .
. . . Man still remains the created image of God—this cannot be changed—but he fails to keep his image pure and to retain the divine likeness.
. . . All the children of Adam, i.e. all who belong to the human race, share in this tragic fate. Even those born this very minute . . .
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This is not my original response ... but the gist is a reasonable likeness ...
That's a pretty bleak view ICA, of humanity.
So the minute we're born we're fallen? None of us disobeyed and ate the evil fruit, but we're still evil because thousands of years ago the first couple infracted God's commandments, and ate evil fruit?
So does the EO see this as a mutation of human DNA ... that's being passed down thru genetics to us today? Is that how we come by being fallen?
So since this is coming from the 15:45 thread, will the resurrection undo this genetic mutation? Does the life-giving spirit undo it?