Chapter 12 of Zimmerman\u2019s now traditional commentary concerns the views of St. Irenaeus (125 to 202 more or less) on the Story of the Fall.\u00a0 At this point, his synthesis of the Story of Adam and Eve with the evolution of Homo sapiens and existence of the triune brain, recedes.<\/p>\n
St. Irenaeus is so close to the time of Jesus that he can trace his mentors back to the apostles.\u00a0 Born in Anatolia, he moved to Gaul where he eventually became Bishop of Lyons.\u00a0 His most famous surviving work is Adversus Haereses<\/em> (Against Heresies).<\/p>\n St. Irenaeus saw Christ\u2019s role as the \u201cre-capitulator\u201d (\u201cre\u201d=\u201dagain\u201d, \u201ccapit\u201d=\u201dhead\u201d, \u201c-ulator\u201d=\u201dagent\u201d) of the human race.\u00a0 The Old Testament speaks of this agency.\u00a0 The events that allowed the Old Testament to come into existence (that is, the play of all the nations dispersed since Adam) pay tribute to this agency.\u00a0 The animal nature of the first man set the stage for this tribute.\u00a0 The cosmos itself is the raw material that goes into the stage.<\/p>\n Zimmerman wrote that Irenaeus said: All lines of the cosmos focus on Christ.\u00a0 Christ is not an afterthought conceived in response to the sin of Adam.\u00a0 Christ is the Alpha and Omega in the first place.\u00a0 Adam fits the cosmic plans as the strategic gateway through which Christ will enter it.\u00a0 \u2026 Christ is the raison d\u2019etre<\/em> of all creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chapter 12 of Zimmerman\u2019s now traditional commentary concerns the views of St. Irenaeus (125 to 202 more or less) on the Story of the Fall.\u00a0 At this point, his synthesis of the Story of Adam and Eve with the evolution of Homo sapiens and existence of the triune brain, recedes. St. Irenaeus is so close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n