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Of the Fall, Sin, & Punishment 1689:ch.6 p.3 - Early Church


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This Sunday School explores the early church's theological reflections on the fall, sin, and redemption, highlighting three interpretive trajectories: exemplary, eschatological, and evental. Focusing on the eschatological view, particularly through Irenaeus of Lyon, it emphasizes that God's creation was not a reactive response to sin but a deliberate, eternal plan to reveal His sacrificial love through Christ. This perspective reframes the fall not as a disruption to a perfect plan, but as part of a divine economy in which Christ's incarnation and passion recapitulate all of history, summing up all things in Himself as the new head of creation. Pastor Jason draws from Revelation 5 and Ephesians 1:10 to illustrate that Christ's worthiness to open the sealed book of history underscores His predestined role as the fulfillment of God's eternal purpose. Ultimately, the doctrine of sin and redemption in the confession is shown to be rooted in a deep, historical understanding of God's sovereign, redemptive design from before creation, where suffering and death are not arbitrary but instruments in the unfolding of God's glory.
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