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According to this doctrine everyone is born with ‘original sin’ and therefore everyone needs to be redeemed by the sacrificial and atoning death of Christ. But what exactly is ‘original sin’ and in what does redemption, or liberation, from ‘original sin’ consist?
The doctrine of original sin which refers to the ‘morally vitiated condition in which we find ourselves at birth as members of a sinful race’ 1 is commonly regarded as one of the most difficult parts of Christian theology.
Rather than examine and discuss the concept of original sin as set forth by Augustine and others, this paper looks at what sin is and what was the first or original sin in the Garden (Genesis 3).
Original Sin-The Fall of Man and the Kingdom of God, 2020. Christian theology teaches that original sin was because of one man, Adam, due to his disobedience to God, having eaten of the forbidden fruit, and that such sin has been passed down from generation to generation.
For Luther, sin does not mean only the external act of the body, but first of all the internal movement of the heart. In its depth it is like a root, that nourishes the whole tree – a clear allusion to Mt. 17,7 appears here. According to Luther, there is only one real sin, and that is the “original sin”, as the root sin of the “heart”.
know good and evil. The original sin is arrogating to ourselves the prerogative of determining good and evil, when our wills become the criterion and the measure rather than God. It is a very subtle point. It is not really so much a particular offense. It is not as though murder or thievery or adultery is the original sin. It is something
Original sin is an entire want or lack of the concreated hereditary right- eousness in Paradise, or of God's image, according to which man was origi- nally created in truth, holiness, and righteousness.
