THESIS 6: THE PRIORITY OF AGRARIANISM

Man was created in a Garden, with the basic command to dress, cultivate, and guard the land.[12] Meaningful work was given to man in the pre-Fall Garden of Eden;[13] food was plentiful but required harvesting.[14] Economic scarcity is not a product of the Fall in a vague, ubiquitous, automatic, "natural" sense, but is a product of deliberate human action (laziness, theft, price controls, war), and less frequently, the direct judgment (#42) or testing[15] at the hand of God through angelic agency.

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

12. Genesis 2:15

13. Cult: Genesis 1:26; Culture: Genesis 1:28; 2:12; 2:19.

14. Cultivation: Genesis 1:29; 2:5; 2:9; 2:15; 2:16

15. Job 2:3

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