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$\"adama\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

It is not merely the literary Adam and Eve that Paul is using for theological reasons. He is drawing historical and theological conclusions for historical and theological reasons based on the clear assumption that there really was an Adam and Eve that affected their descendants. The theses in this chapter are all true enough as far as they go\u2014 Adam is a prototype, Adam is a progenitor, Adam is a bad moral example, but they do not real grasp the nettle when it comes to the historical bases of these assertions. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"