Bible Discussion Thread

Good morning/afternoon all! I would like to quote part of a passage written prior than 1760 thinking of some back and forth discussion here recently. The author was Henry Funk.

"In the beginning God, through Christ, created man in the image of God, for perpetual existence, like wise the heavens and the earth, and everything was right and good. In this image of himself God gave man dominion over the earth and over all creatures upon it.

But when man had been deceived by Lucifer into the sin of death, he lost this image. Moreover he was dead to holiness and righteousness and had fallen into the realm of temporal death and corruption, but not into annihilation.

Thus man who had been made a ruler of the earth and all of its creatures, and for whose sake the world was made, had fallen out of infinity into the temporal realm of death and decay.

In the providence of God, heaven and earth and all the host therein had, by the fall of man, likewise fallen from the infinite state to the transitory state of death and decay, so that all that had come forth from the earth to the word of the Lord ( Gen. 1) returned to the earth, but not into annihilation; ...."