Queen's Road Cell

  23  All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me. 24  That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out? 25  I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness. 26  And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her. 27  Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things— 28  which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found. 29  See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.   1. What is Qoheleth's conclusion about wisdom expressed in v.23-24? "All...

We spoke again about the 1) reasonableness of Adam being our perfect representative, as well as 2) how it is that his sin can be imputed to us. We have alluded to this in a previous discussion last year (https://queensroadcell.blogspot.com/2017/01/qc-and-sg-accountability-13117.html). We also mentioned the alternate understanding of imputation of sin: "seminalism" as opposed to "federalism". The former takes the view that we were all represented by physical descent in Adam's loins, just as Levi was said to have paid tithes to Melchizedek via Abraham (Heb 7:9-10). Sin is described in the Bible both in terms of a falling short of God's glory (the visible radiance of His inner perfections, Rom 3:23) as well as a transgression of His perfect will as expressed in His law. Sin entered the world through Adam, but might have been said to exist because Satan fell after the original perfection of Creation (Gen 1:31) and could commit the evil of tempting man. Howev...

Selwyn, Joshua and Winnie each shared different aspects of discipleship at work. Selwyn mentioned how he felt that having an attitude of working "as to the Lord" and not people had eventually led to blessing at his workplace. Joshua shared how he had been challenged to be fervent at the workplace by a fellow teacher and had been asked to do BS with BB boys, and Winnie shared how the Lord had perhaps been placing Christian educators in Singapore schools to witness. We asked how it was that each one of us could be born with a fallen nature (i.e. have "original sin") if in fact it was Adam who fell. I mentioned that the orthodox view of how this occurs is called the "Federal/Representative" view of the Fall. In Romans 5:12ff and 1 Cor 15:21-22 we learn that humanity is represented by two Adams, the second Adam being Christ. We who believe receive the imputed righteousness of the second Adam, just as all men receive the imputed sin of the first Adam. He was ...