Professor: Davide Sciarabba
Date: March 18-22, 2012
Location: Southwestern Adventist University - Chan Shun Hall Library
We will study the origin of humanity, the fall, and sin - its nature and effect, the nature of man, the doctrine of immortality. Man and woman as the image of God. The Christian message confronts the world with the image of a true human identity. It is not a negative self annihilating message of Eastern mysticism, nor a utopia of liberalism. A human being is a priceless speck of dust of the ground, made in the image of God; a blade of grass whom God cherishes as the apple of His eye (Deuteronomy 32:10). But humans are rebels, slaves to themselves and their consequences. The story of the liberation of humans from themselves is the story of redemption.