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So did Adam and Eve have to get remarried? Monday, December 12, 2022.

Introduction. The commotion can be divided into two different kinds of responses.

One has tried to point out worrisome trajectories of wolf's associations

and modes of expression in order to better categorize him as being among those who need to be cancelled.

This approach would have, as one of its benefits, the congenial prospect

of not having to face up to any of the issues or to answer any of wolf's questions.

The other response has tackled the arguments of the book directly, which is, of course, the manly approach.

For a good example, the American Reformer hosted a series of reviews, Pro and Con,

which is the way you should want to do it. And here's one sample.

In this second mode, one of the earlier critiques of the book was the one offered up by Brian Matson,

which you can read here. What I would like to do in this post is show how Matson's pretty sharp dismissal of wolf

was an exercise in what I call paradigm bumper cars. The game is set up in such a way that you can't even crash.

All you can do is bounce off of each other. No need to read any further.

Brian Matson claims that Wolf's book is essentially over by page 118.

And here's the quote from Wolf that makes him want to say, game over.

Quote, one of the conclusions from the previous chapter is that neither the fall nor grace destroyed or abrogated human natural relations.

The fall did not introduce the natural instinct to love one's own, and grace does not critique or subvert our natural inclination

to love and prefer those nearest and most bound to us.

The fall introduced the abuse of social relations and malice toward ethnic difference.

Grace corrects this abuse in malice, but it does not introduce new principles of human relations.

The instinct to love the familiar more than the foreign is good and remains operative in all spiritual states of man.

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