Joe asks:
Are You a Traducianist or Creationist?
Joe:
This is certainly an interesting question....now that your debate with Speratus is winding down. Concerning “creationism” vs “traducianism”....I can adamantly, with great conviction of heart, say strongly ,with much enthusiasm.....”
I don’t know”! I do believe that you have ably presented the “creationist” viewpoint and Speratus has brought up some interesting thoughts that should cause us all to think this “Origin of the Soul” question through thoughtfully and prayerfully. There are, it seems, some great theologians on both sides of this question and you certainly cannot question their faithfulness to their common Savior.
For instance, “Augustine, the great establisher of Original Sin, professed himself undecided about it, to the end.”
Dabney, Lectures.. Buswell, in Systematic Thelology after 2 pages of defending “traducianism” states..”but I do not feel that it can be firmly established on the grounds of any explicit scriptural teaching;..”
I like Dabney’s conclusion (who defended traducianism) of the matter: concerning the propogation of the soul...”(this) the very question, which can be neither proved nor disproved by us because we do not comprehend the true substance of spirit.” He goes on to say in the following paragraph..”But we believe a soul is a spiritual atom, and is brought into existence out of non-existence.
Have human parents this highest creative power? With such difficulties besetting both sides, it will be best perhaps to leave the subject as an insoluble mystery. What an
opprobrium to the pride of human philosophy, that it should be unable to answer the very first and nearest question to its own origen.”
So again I say..I don’t know. But, this has been a good food (fight) for thought and has once again caused me to search the scriptures for answers. Thanks to both yourself and Speratus for this result!
Dave
