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I keep seeing 2 Peter 3 presented as proof that the Genesis 1:1 Heaven and Earth was destroyed during Noah's flood. The text reads as follows:

4They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation." 5But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these water also the world of that time was deluged and…

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I’ve been reading Tom Holland’s book “Contours of Pauline Theology”, and was hit with a heavy “wow” moment. On page 105 in Chapter 5 (The Paschal Community and the Body of Sin) while addressing the corporate dimension of Paul’s usage of “the body of Sin”, there is a subsection called “The body of Adam”. In it Tom ask the question of whether or not Paul’s “the body of Christ” is the counterpart to “the body of Adam”. I was not expecting his answer. In fact, I found it quite… Continue