Making the Irrational Rational:
Some Christian Syllogisms (part 3 of 5)
Syllogism #4 and #5
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Syllogism #4
Death is the consequence of sin.
Jesus died, having no sin.
This syllogism allows for no conclusion other than the recognition that the statements pose a contradiction. The contradiction of the redemptive death of Jesus cannot be understood by natural logic, but only to the extent that Theo-logic reveals God's purposes. God advised the original couple that the disobedience of partaking of "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" (Gen. 2:9, 17) would have consequences. "In the day that you eat from it you will surely die" (Gen. 2:17). If original man were to reject the "tree of life" and the divine outworking of the divinely inbreathed life of God (Gen. 2:7), then the contingent and derivative function of man would necessarily allow for the overtaking of mankind by "him who had the power of death, that is, the devil" (Heb. 2:14). . .
Dr. Jim Fowler
IOM Staff Writer
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