Episode 5 —

In Part 3, we follow the implications of one foundational question:

Did Genesis describe Adam as perfect — or as very good?

We explore how imagining a perfected Adam logically leads to:

• Collapse/Corpse anthropology
• Inability to will salvific good
• Monergistic grace
• Meticulous providence
• The “inevitability instinct”
• Intensified penal substitution

We then contrast this with the Orthodox diagnosis of the Fall as mortality, corruption, and fear of death — not metaphysical annihilation of the will.

It is an examination of premises.

Key Biblical Texts

• Genesis 1:31 — “Very good” (tov me’od)
• Romans 8:7–13 — “Those who are in the flesh cannot please God”
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