Claim. Adam’s position was not merely that of firstborn or favored son but of eternal only-begotten Son — irreplaceable in the structure of creation — and God has never recovered from the shock of losing him, a wound six thousand years of providence have not healed.
Elaboration. SMM draws on the analogy of an only son in a seven-generation lineage who dies without an heir, but intensifies it categorically: “Adam’s position was like that of the only son — the eternal, only begotten son, not merely the only son after seven generations” (2.1.-god-lost-his-eternal-and-only-son, 20-210, 1968.6.9). The parents of such a son “feel like dying” themselves. For God the loss was cosmically absolute — Adam was the pivot of “God’s great endeavor of Creation,” the means through which all the ideals of love in heaven and earth were to be realized.
The unhealed-wound claim is explicit: “Even after six thousand years, God has not recovered from the shock of Adam and Eve’s Fall” (ibid). This cuts against any reading of God’s providential activity as composed or strategic recovery. SMM’s God is a bereaved parent who continues to act despite unresolved grief, not one who has moved past it.
The claim connects to the question of divine impassibility: if God cannot recover from a six-thousand-year-old wound, He is genuinely affected by creaturely choices — a non-classical theism with real stakes.
See also. csg-god-cannot-love-without-a-partner, csg-six-thousand-year-search-under-grief