MattofVA

I was watching the movie Fight Club the other day-great DVD. I got to the part where Ed Norton's character-the narrator-says "on a long enough time line-the suvival rate for everyone drops to zero". Then I suddenly thought of how this principle applies to the story in Genesis chapter three. In order for Eve to have eaten the fruit, she and adam had the potential to do so in the first place-free will to both good and evil, blah blah, blah. So, on a long enough time line the "fall" was inevitable, it would be logically impossible for it not to happen ever, right. So, an event such as this would have been even more of a setup than we usually think-because, on a long enough time line-it would be inevitable? See what I mean? Anyone want to add two cents? Christian responses, even(lame as they might be)? Of course, I doubt this even remotely occurred to the biblical writers, but simple logic leads to this conclusion about such an event.

Wiploc

Unless you are going to say that god doesn't have free will, then you don't get to say that free will leads inevitably to sin.

And in fact, Christian doctrine is that the Fall was part of god's plan anyway. They call it "the fortunate fall."

crc