Love That Will Not Let Me Go
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Christian Biography", IV, 942.)<br />
LOVE THAT WILL NOT LET ME GO<br />
A FRESH LOOK AT GENESIS<br />
M.M.NINAN<br />
Celestius, a friend of Pelagius, was the first in the West to hold these propositions, borrowed<br />
from Theodorus: "Adam was to die in every hypothesis, whether he sinned or did not sin. His<br />
sin injured himself only and not the human race" (<strong>Me</strong>rcator, "Liber Subnotationem", preface).<br />
This, the first position held by the Pelagians, was also the first point condemned at Carthage<br />
(Denzinger, "Enchiridion", no 101-old no. 65).<br />
This assertion of course was true because Adam and Eve had not tasted the fruit of the tree of<br />
life. It was for this reason <strong>Go</strong>d drove them out so that they may not live for ever and suffer<br />
the consequence of the eating of the fruit of the tree of the Knowledge of <strong>Go</strong>od and Evil by<br />
Adam and Eve and hence the rest of the family which fell under the struggle for self existence<br />
and a society based on selfishness.<br />
Catholics cited especially Romans 5:12, where Adam is shown as transmitting death with sin.<br />
Since Adam did not eat of the tree of life Adam and his progeny were under the blessing of<br />
death.<br />
The tendency of the original sin committed by the parents Adam and Eve were<br />
transmitted through DNA to all generations.<br />
What was transmitted was the knowledge of<br />
good and evil and with the total freedom of choice which they showed with which they chose<br />
to eat the fruit, they were also transmitted through generations.<br />
transmissions:<br />
The knowledge of <strong>Go</strong>od and Evil<br />
Freedom to choose <strong>Go</strong>od or Evil<br />
This is because of this that <strong>Go</strong>d stipulated the punishment of sins:<br />
Thus we have two generic<br />
Exodus 34:7<br />
Keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will<br />
by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the<br />
children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”<br />
Again it is repeated in<br />
Numbers 14:18<br />
‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and<br />
transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the<br />
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