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Comment on Sin as the Cause of Physical Death
The exegesis of I Corinthians 15:20-22 by Mr. Richard Riss1 proves once again that the word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword… (Hebrews 4:12.) NIV.
I would only like to add that I believe that Paul’s words in Romans 8:10, make it very clear that the cause of bodily death is sin. Permit me to quote the entire verse, as it is of such far-reaching consequence in the origins controversy. “But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.” Romans 8:10,11; NIV.
The original Greek text2 does not leave one
in doubt as to what is meant by “body” or “dead.” The word for “body” is
used for Christ’s dead body (Luke 23:55), the word for “dead” is used
for Christ’s dead body (Romans 8:11), and it’s clear that Christ’s
Resurrected body was one of “flesh and bones” (Luke 24:39).
I believe that the Biblical revelation that
physical death was a direct result of Adam’s disobedience makes the doctrine of evolution Biblically untenable.
References 1. Riss, Richard, 1983. Natural selection and
the Christian view of redemption. Creation Research Society Quarterly
19(4): 212-214. 2. The Greek New Testament, 2nd ed. United Bible Societies. 1968. Kurt Aland et al, eds.
Received 14 April 1983 Creation Research Society Quarterly Volume 20, Number 2, September 1983, page 123
8/21/24 Physical death is due to our sin. We inherit our sin
nature from Adam. We are recombinations of his genes. When God made
Adam, He included in his genes the information for all the rest of
mankind. God spoke the universe into existence. It is the nature
of deduction that from one or two propositions, many new
propositions can be deduced. All of us are the deductions from
the words spoken by God to create Adam.
