LOST: Maternity Leave
I’m studying for my Greek final and then heading off to visit Mickey for a while, so I’ll leave you guys to analyze things while I’m gone. (If there are any more hieroglyphs you can save them for me. 
I guess we are to believe the “others” are really part of the Dharma experiment. The raggy clothes of “the others” that we saw hanging in their medical bunker and the fake beard belonging to that big guy (who kidnapped Walt and acted is the leader when Jack, et.al. were trying to find Michael)demos their attempts to represent themselves as just other cast-aways. And that young girl did resemble Rousseau. Did anyone call her Alex? (Since this occurred BEFORE they had Walt or Michael, I’m left wondering if they stay all together as one group or if they are spread out in different bunkers.)
Who do you suppose the big cheese, “he”, is that they referred to as their boss(“HE won’t like this”)? And if there is a plague, you KNOW someone in our group is going to eventually come down with it and they will have to consider killing him, as Rousseau did her crew. (I bet the “others”/Dharma people REALLY hate Rousseau! She’s quite a fly in the ointment.)
I’m glad to find out they didn’t hurt the Australian girl during her two weeks of captivity. Ethan seemed positively “human” for a while there. But they all seemed quite happy to consider taking the baby and killing the mother!
Edwards: Part 6 – The Imputation of Sin
Welcome back, hardy reader! We are nearing the end of our current series, so hang in there!
Englightened 18th Century thinkers did not believe there was any “justice” in holding the entire human race guilty for sin they had not personally committed. Edwards countered with the Biblical doctrine that sin involved a person’s inclinations, NOT just their isolated acts of sin. [the Sin vs Sins issue] Reusing the acorn and oak analogy, he illustrated how man’s corrupt propensity to sin was itself a fault, a “blight”, even before any specific sinful act might occur. Every new branch on a tree would partake of the tree’s disease, even before the “blight” might become visible.
Edwards departed here from the Westminster Confession of Faith (Chapter 6:3) which regarded the imputation of sin as a judicial act distinct from the corrupted nature. Edwards wrote, “They [our first parents] being the root of all mankind, the guilt of [Adam's] sin was imputed; and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature (was) conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.” Acorns will always produce oaks. A tree diseased with “blight” will only produce infected branches.
