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Originally Posted by Arizona
Some teachers, ie Campbell Morgan, have taught that man was created a spiritual being, and that the fall was "spiritually literal" (those are my words). Man therefore "fell" to a lower realm where he lost the former consciousness of God's presence. Faith is called the substantiation of things unseen in the NT, so through faith God's presence is again consciously realized and man is restored to fellowship with the Divine.
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Arizona,
I like this thought, especially that we recover our ability to see spiritual things. I think it was Panton who said Adam and Eve were probably glowing from within (their spirits) and that was the clothing they wore before they fell. When they ate the fruit, the spirit was deadened, the light went out, and they could see their own nakedness.
This would match what Campbell says ... a fall from a spiritual plane to a mere physical one. The restoration of the spiritual plane is one of the key motifs of the Bible. In the end, even opague things like gold and jasper become transparent. All is transparent since we can see anew.
SC