As I settled in to write this column, sitting down before yet another blank page on my computer screen, I began to think about the question of what the world would look like if Jesus Christ had never come to live among us and die for us. I should have known that a hypothetical like this one was just too big. Soon I was chasing rabbits as a welcome distraction. The first was what to call Him. Jesus was and is a common name. How to distinguish…
There was Adam and then there was Eve. Created in the moral image of God. Righteous. Pure. Consciences clean and clear. So totally innocent they did not even notice their physical and spiritual nakedness. In this pristine state, they were possessed of the ultimate humility: utter unselfconsciousness. They could not be described as blameless, as no wrong had been done to which blame might attach. To call them sinless would be inaccurate, as sin had not entered their minds. Their character was uncorrupted, but it had never been put…