{"id":5540,"date":"2022-08-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=5540"},"modified":"2022-06-08T22:22:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T22:22:41","slug":"%ef%bf%bclooking-at-john-waltons-book-2015-the-lost-world-of-adam-and-eve-part-12-of-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=5540","title":{"rendered":"\ufffcLooking at John Walton&#8217;s Book (2015) &#8220;The Lost World of Adam and Eve&#8221; (Part 12 of 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0101 What is proposition 11?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam and Eve are both archetypal and real people who lived in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This proposition follows from both&nbsp;<em>the archetype as hylomorphe<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>the fall as a condition<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;If Adam is the&nbsp;<em>original&nbsp;<\/em>fallen one, and if we are the&nbsp;<em>imprint<\/em>&nbsp;of Adam&#8217;s fallenness, then we wonder, &#8220;How could this have 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better way to explain the contiguity between&nbsp;<em>fallen Adam<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>fallen us<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are directly descended from Adam and Eve.&nbsp;&nbsp;Unlike Paul&#8217;s solution, Augustine&#8217;s explanation turns out to be fully scientific, because it is fully debunked by the discipline of genetics seventeen centuries later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walton says that genetics debunking Augustine&#8217;s proposal is irrelevant, since Adam and Eve are archetypes.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, as noted above,&nbsp;<em>Adam<\/em>&nbsp;may be archetypal without raising scientific questions, but when&nbsp;<em>fallen Adam<\/em>&nbsp;is archetypal, scientific questions cannot be avoided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0104 Happily, another solution comes from (what I jokingly call)&nbsp;<em>Augustine&#8217;s corrected proposal<\/em>, which provides a parallel hylomorphe in the field of science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Slide26-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Slide26-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Slide26-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Slide26-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Figure 26<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0105 To me,&nbsp;<em>Augustine&#8217;s corrected proposal<\/em>&nbsp;is to be preferred to&nbsp;<em>Walton&#8217;s waving the word, &#8220;archetype&#8221;, all over the place<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0106 In order to shore up his argument ,Walton presents an example of another biblical figure who is archetypal and a real person in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul discusses Mechizedek in Hebrew 5-7.&nbsp;&nbsp;He mixes&nbsp;<em>information about Melchizedek in Genesis 14<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>rhetoric about Melchizedek as a theological-political prototype of Jerusalem-based rulership,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>speculative Jewish theology<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;He presents Melchizedek as&nbsp;<em>an archetype for Christ as priest and king<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Slide27-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Slide27-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Slide27-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Slide27-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Figure 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