{"id":5663,"date":"2022-10-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2022-06-09T21:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T21:32:32","slug":"%ef%bf%bclooking-at-loren-haarsmas-book-2021-when-did-sin-begin-part-9-of-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=5663","title":{"rendered":"\ufffcLooking at Loren Haarsma’s Book (2021) “When Did Sin Begin” (Part 9 of 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

0061 Chapter two is titled, “Creation, Evolution and Divine Action”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haarsma asks (more or less), “If the scientific evidence for human evolution is correct, then what does that imply about God’s action in intending, creating and blessing humans?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I expand the query, asking, “If the scientific evidence for evolution is correct, then what does that imply about God’s creative action depicted in the first chapter of Genesis?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0062 Obviously, the scientific evidence implies that God’s action in creating the world and humans is irrelevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haarsma labels this situation, “dissonance”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0063 Indeed, dissonance characterizes intersections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I start with the evolution of the planet and life2H<\/sub><\/em> and the Creation Story2V<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The single actuality is the world<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world<\/em> includes the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 16<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This intersection between evolution2H<\/sub> and Genesis 12V<\/sub><\/em> is packed with accidental and essential contradictions<\/em>.  Theologians are capable of distinguishing essential from accidental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, one essential contradiction is this: Each narrative presents a sequence of events in the realization of our world.  But, each sequence is unique.  How can a Genesis day be the same as an evolutionary epoch?  Yet, the two sequences are drawn into a single actuality.  They are stuck together in a mystery.  I call that mystery, “the world”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0064 Plus, there is a world within the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genesis 1:26-31 portrays the intending, the creating, the blessing<\/em> and the feeding of humans<\/em> as well as the animals that humans keep<\/em>.  This implies that human evolution actually associates to our world,<\/em> rather than our current Lebenswelt<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I consider the intersection of all of evolution2H<\/sub> and the Genesis Creation Story2V<\/sub>,<\/em> I arrive at configuration similar to the intersection of human evolution2H<\/sub> and Genesis 1:26-312V<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The single actuality is the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 17<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0066 Once these associations are made, then original sin2V<\/sub> binds to a twist in long-established trends in human evolution2H<\/sub><\/em>.  Since this twist2H<\/sub> does not immediately alter prehistoric natural history or human genetics, the twist must be a cultural adaptation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The single actuality is our current Lebenswelt<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 18<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0067 These intersections do not speak to us of dissonance, per se.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These intersections speak to us of mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A mystery contains irreconcilable contradictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0068 One task of the theologian is to separate the accidental and the essential contradictions, in order to clarify the mystery.  This is hard work.  A mystery cannot be fully explained, partially explained or declared unexplainable.  A mystery cannot be resolved by sensible construction.  A mystery evokes social construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See the e-work, A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0069 A mystery provides a message.  The message is clear.  A single realness<\/em> coalesces from two disparate actualities<\/em>.  The two nested forms are bound.  In this message of unity, the normal contexts and the potentials cannot be regarded as fully independent. Two nested forms<\/em> bind into a mystery<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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