Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, the creation of life and biological diversity, part 26.

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Last time I argued that in 1st Corinthians 15, Paul may be moving beyond the parameters of the

merely literary atom to touch the historical atom.

He seems to say that in Adam we all die in the sense that we share a common mortal human nature with the

man in the story.

But insofar as he thinks of that man as chronologically prior to Christ, he's placing

him within real history.

And I think that we'll see that implication is confirmed as we

turn now to the second crucial New Testament passage on Adam, Romans chapter 5 verses 12 to 21.

Romans 5, 12 to 21. Let's read this passage aloud together.

Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death

spread to all men because all men sinned, sin indeed was in the world before the law was

given, but sin is not counted where there

is no law.

Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression

of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. But the free gift is not like the trespass.

For if many died through one's man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift

in the grace of that one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for many. And the free gift is not like

the effect of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation,

but the free gift following many trespasses brings justification.

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