Carl Wieland Used Two Bad Arguments · How Close is the Jimmy Akin Model to the Urantia Book? · Could Pius XII claim assent of opinion to "the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid" in § 36?
I am sorry, I did not "read his paper" but heard him on a video, so I took the last view he presented, and he spent a bit more time on it than on others, as I recall the subjective feel, as that opinion being his own. |
To Jimmy Akin, a convert to Catholicism from Calvinism, and professing at least on some level to not have forsaken the faith since, Adam and Eve were possibly ancestral to all who live now, but far from our only ancestors alive in roughly speaking "their generation" there were in fact at least 10 000 pairs or individuals, as this is considered the minimum viable population or minimum population for genetic viability.
But if so, their sin affected the rest, as they were their "federal head" - with them not being our only ancestors in their generation, they cannot be the ancestral head of all mankind, as the traditional doctrine posits.
Now, look at this from the Urantia Foundation:
Far from the simplistic fable from the Bible, the story of Adam and Eve is a complicated one, and not well-understood by most of the world as yet. In The Urantia Book, we are given a complete picture of this amazing series of events—the mission of Adam and Eve was actually the third of five epochal revelations to our planet…
The human descendents of Adam and Eve sprang partially from the two children that were conceived as a result of default—Cain and Sansa.
Cain was, in reality, the son of Eve and Cano, and Sansa was the daughter of Adam and Laotta. Both Cano and Laotta were human beings—not members of the Violet race to which Adam and Eve belonged. If you have read this story (in the link above), you may recall that the liaison of Eve with Cano meant the default of the Adamic mission. When Adam realized what Eve had done, he “sought out Laotta, the brilliant Nodite woman who was head of the western schools of the Garden, and with premeditation committed the folly of Eve.” And these were the acts which effectively defaulted their mission and doomed both Adam and Eve to their degradation to mortal status.
If all had gone according to the divine plan, Adam and Eve would have procreated between themselves, and then their children would have procreated with each other (this was safe for them, and standard practice, as they were a pure-line race) until their numbers had reached one million. Following this milestone, the pure-line children of Adam and Eve would have begun procreating with the higher races of humanity then living on the earth. In this way the Material Sons and Daughters upstep the biological systems of the races, both physically and spiritually, through their life plasm. And this is the mission of an Adam and Eve to an evolutionary planet such as ours. Theirs is a mission of physical, intellectual, and spiritual upliftment to the evolutionary races of mankind. They are sent from celestial government as a revelation from God, and as biologic uplifters.
Their FAQ, Q: How could there be be descendants from Adam and Eve, if there were only 2 sons mentioned, and if there were sisters, how could they multiply within the same family?
Parallels with Jimmy Akin:
- already a biologically human population on earth before them
- produced by some kind of evolution
- with Adam and Eve enjoying a very special position among age peers
- the Biblical story being a simplification to the point of not being historically truthful as we see historically truthful
But there are also differences, like Jimmy Akin having:
- no affirmation of racism*
- no pretense of getting this from a special post-Biblical revelation by an UFO.
Given that the Urantia book is denying the identity of Jesus with God the Son, we can be glad for Jimmy Akin not getting his cue from that source.
But if Satan can masquerade as an angel of light, is it only through false revelations, and can it never be through intellectual heresies?
Here are some differences of the Bible from the Urantia Book, where Jimmy Akin falls on the Biblical side:
- no affirmation of racism
- no pretense of getting this from a special post-Biblical revelation by an UFO.
And here are some differences of the Bible (taken in the obvious sense and with obvious implications) both from Jimmy Akin and from the Urantia book, in its affirmations about Adam and Eve:
- no biologically human populations on earth before them
- human population from them who in turn were created directly as morphological adults
- they had only descendants, no generation peers
- the Biblical story being partly by them and historically truthful
What if the theory of genetic viability depending on so many is wrong, and even more wrong if applied to our first parents, created without any genetic defects? What if a man writing 4000 pages in a trance whether controlled by Satan or left to one's own prejudices was not much worse than the "science" Jimmy Akin relies on? And if some should cease asking** where I have adherence to the Biblical story as factual from, and start asking where they have an adherence to it being not strictly factual from?
/Hans Georg Lundahl
* See phrases like "the races, while biologically fit, had never been purged of their retarded and defective strains." Pretty close to eugenic prejudice prevalent among Darwinists at the time. ** If they are asking that.
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