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1 min readUpdated August 22, 2025

Below is a list of questions that I don’t feel I have satisfactory answers to yet.

Higher stature than Adam and Eve?

Where does it say that we are higher stature than Adam and Eve before the fall when we go to heaven?

Is sin more fluid than we think?

Before God created the earth and the angels some sins were impossible like Lust and Greed. It would seem that in creating the world new categories of possible sin were created as well. I wonder if God could have created a world with other categories of sin, other possible sins. For example He could have created a world without sexual reproduction and desire for one another in that way. We would then not have the sin of lust as a possibility. On the flipside he could have added things to this world and through the fall given us over to new and different sinful desires. This would mean that sin is technically more fluid than we generally think about. We have the fruits of the spirit and the antithesis of them. We have clearly categorized sins given to us in the Bible but sin is simply the leaving of the moral attributes of God. This view does open the mind up a bit to seeing sin not as these specific categories. But is it true?

How is it fair?

If man must choose God then how is it fair for so much variation in circumstance to work against him. One is born to a Christian home. The other never knows the Bible exists. What of babies, do they all go to hell?

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