God's Image in Man And Its Defacement in the Light of Modern Denials
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176). He thinks the difficulty is got over by treating the narrative as ' allegorical ' — * a poem as dis- tinguished from a history.' But is it got over? See below. 158 GOD'S IMAGE IN MAN dwelt so long on the subject of man's origin. The question of origin has its chief interest and importance from its bearing on the doctrine of man's nature and condition, and through that on the doctrine of sin. I make no attempt, therefore, to minimise the seriousness of the issue that is involved. Nor can I... agree with those theologians who, sometimes with a light heart, make capitula- tion of the whole position to the evolutionist, and accept the consequences in a weakened doctrine of the origin of sin and of guilt. These writers doubtless act in fullest loyalty to what they regard as the settled teachings of science, and their theories are valuable as illustrating the best possi- bilities of a reconciliation of evolutionary teaching with fundamental Christian conceptions.^ Still I cannot regard their efforts as successful.
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