Originally Posted By: peter
Originally Posted By: JeffS
You would have to throw out the entire book of Romans and much other New Testament text to achieve a Christian faith that does not teach death as the result of sin. Which is fine to believe, but it is wildly inconsistent with historical Christianity.

FWIW, I was raised in a Christian family, hung around a lot with fairly Christian people, and was a Christian myself for several years -- and discussions on this BBS were the first time I ever heard of Christians who believed that death was caused by sin.

Ditto. I find it rather quaint. Either reproduction wasn't part of God's plan, and God added sexuality post-sinning (which we already know isn't true, because God created Male and Female, it was only post-sinning that they got red-faced about being nekkid), or God doesn't understand the concept of exponential population growth.