During my private study of catastrophism and the holes that are in uniformitarian theory as it relates to the Earth and how things have come to be, I came back to the second law of thermodynamics. Assuming that God is, in all things, divinely good and His ways are higher than ours and His thoughts are not our own, we can assume that when God's ways are combined with man's ways, there is an element of complexity. If the second law of thermodynamics applies not only to thermodynamics but also to other forms of existence (such as evolution, unique species dying out pretty much every day, etc), can we also postulate that this law applies to the earthly and divine affairs of man?
In the beginning, God and Man lived in perfect harmony. You could say they established a perfect equilibrium, with man in his right place in relation to God. In a perfectly isolated environment (in an Earth that is just as much physical as the one we live on today), this relationship would have continued for ages. When this cohabitation of God and man was no longer isolated (ie the serpent came in to tempt Eve), another force was thrown into the mix. This created a upset in the equilibrium.
When all things were said and done, man had fallen. The flesh now inherits the sinful nature of the flesh before it. We could say that man had chosen to reject God at this point, and man would be continually dead and unable to do anything to please God since they were dead in bondage to sin (Holy Spirit not being accounted for yet).
Since the righteousness that is God cannot walk with the sinfulness of man without an intercessor, this would create a new equilibrium - an equilibrium of sin and death. According to the second law of thermodynamics, entropy would be attained (that is, equilibrium). This second law takes time to fully run its course though, which brings me to my question (though the implications can be discussed and possibly affirmed in many avenues of life).
Is the Fall an earthly fixed state that is passed down (that Jesus obviously did not inherit since he had no humanly seed) or is it a progressively worsening condition (obviously still passed down, but possibly getting worse with each manifestation)? I can see arguments from both sides (both religious and secular); I'm just wondering what you guys would theorize.
In the beginning, God and Man lived in perfect harmony. You could say they established a perfect equilibrium, with man in his right place in relation to God. In a perfectly isolated environment (in an Earth that is just as much physical as the one we live on today), this relationship would have continued for ages. When this cohabitation of God and man was no longer isolated (ie the serpent came in to tempt Eve), another force was thrown into the mix. This created a upset in the equilibrium.
When all things were said and done, man had fallen. The flesh now inherits the sinful nature of the flesh before it. We could say that man had chosen to reject God at this point, and man would be continually dead and unable to do anything to please God since they were dead in bondage to sin (Holy Spirit not being accounted for yet).
Since the righteousness that is God cannot walk with the sinfulness of man without an intercessor, this would create a new equilibrium - an equilibrium of sin and death. According to the second law of thermodynamics, entropy would be attained (that is, equilibrium). This second law takes time to fully run its course though, which brings me to my question (though the implications can be discussed and possibly affirmed in many avenues of life).
Is the Fall an earthly fixed state that is passed down (that Jesus obviously did not inherit since he had no humanly seed) or is it a progressively worsening condition (obviously still passed down, but possibly getting worse with each manifestation)? I can see arguments from both sides (both religious and secular); I'm just wondering what you guys would theorize.