Of course, the Fathers of the Church had none of the analytic tools that we have today.\u00a0 Also, they had churches to run.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, we can see some of the Fathers wrestling with the nested result from the previous blog.\u00a0 For example, (it seems to me that) Tertullian substituted \u201csex\u201d for the \u201cspirit-descent\u201d.<\/p>\n
No doubt the struggle went both ways, since the stories of Jesus could be trimmed to fit a \u201cdescent of the soul\u201d model. (Except, of course, for the Resurrection business.)<\/p>\n
I imagine that Genesis 1-11 became more and more important in the struggle against the appropriation of name of Jesus the Messiah by Gnostic (Pagan) thinkers.<\/p>\n
The Story of the Fall of Adam and Eve works against the purely vertical and non-historical axis of the descent of the soul.\u00a0 The Story of the Fall adds a horizontal and historical axis.\u00a0 At the same time, this axis raises questions of its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Of course, the Fathers of the Church had none of the analytic tools that we have today.\u00a0 Also, they had churches to run. Nevertheless, we can see some of the Fathers wrestling with the nested result from the previous blog.\u00a0 For example, (it seems to me that) Tertullian substituted \u201csex\u201d for the \u201cspirit-descent\u201d. No doubt […]<\/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-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n