Original sin?

Answer 1

Since they are linked, I have given an explanation of both the creation stories, and original sin. Hope it helps...

The creation story is a myth. I use this term in the classical sense. It is a story that attempts to explain the world around it. At the time, that the bible's 3 creation stories were written (there are actually 3 of them back to back in Genesis), there were many creation stories. Actually it was a very popular genre.

So to look at the bible for a scientific explanation of the world, would be an improper usage of the story. Obviously believers hold that God did it. However to say, that creation happened in 7 days because that is how it is written in the bible would unacademic and illogical.

In one, we were the product of god's feces. One we were the product of a lesser god's accident. And so on.

So the wonderous part of the creation story is that there is one, but rather that it's message is very different from the rest of that time.

You see a myth wants to explain a couple of things:
1- who people are
2- our relationship to Creator
3- why world is full of suffering

The difference between the bible story and the other ones of that time is that in the Bible, creation is said to good, and humans are VERY good. (The creation of humans is the first time that the adjective very is used.)

So we are good, and we have a loving relationship to Creator. The world gets screwed up by our (or rather the first discernible people) rejecting God (sin). This has two effects. First is the first sin, and second is the cosmological shift that occurred that has affected everyone for the rest of history as a effect of rejecting God.

In other words, original sin is made up of two parts:
1- the first sin (that happened so long ago)
2- the effects of that sin on the universe, basically causing a break or rift between God and humanity

In most traditions of Christianity, Baptism is looked on as reapairing part of the problem. Obvioiusly we are not guilty of that first sin. However, we all feel the effects of being separated from God (look at the world around you). Baptism heals our soul, and joins us spirituality back with God's creation and in His Love.

Hope that helps.
God Bless,
Vic

Answer 2

This is a debated question by theologians. The source is Adam and Eve eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge after specifically being forbidden too. Now the debate is does the Sin stem from the gaining of knowledge or the disobeying of Gods specific demand? Some theologians have even hypothesized the argument that after gaining the knowledge from the tree at that point Adam and Eve were responsible for their actions because they inherantly knew right from wrong and that original sin was in fact all the evil acts they would commit afterward.

Answer 3

Actually, no. Even from a Christian perspective this is wrong. If a Christian couple have a baby then the baby would be without original sin. Go back to the old testament and read where the sin of one is forgiven for the succeeding generations. So how can there be Original Sin? This is a dogma tool to encourage baptism by the Catholic Church.

Answer 4

Because of the first sin that Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden we now have to be baptized after our birth. Baptism forgives our original sin so that we are free from sin until we start to grow up and begin to do bad things which eventually leads to sin.

Answer 5

The first sin mentioned in the bible is not the first sin chronologically.

Adam clearly disobeyed when he went against the commandment of God. Isn't it interesting that he kind of pronounced that happening when he said "therefore shall a man leave his father and mother" (Gen 2:24). Adam's Dad was God, and then he left because he listened to Eve!.
He spoke it then it happened! Wow! Watch what you say!

Just so you know death is not ceasing to exist but separation from God.

The first Chronological sin is when Lucifer got all up into himself with how cool he was. Read Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28.

Ezekiel 28:15 (KJV)
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

So the original sin was pride.
Proverbs 29:23 (The Living Bible)
23 Pride ends in a fall, while humility brings honor.

Answer 6

Here is one way to describe Original sin.

The paradise in which God created the human race was a place where all people lived in complete holiness. They loved God with all their heart, with all their soul, and with all their mind. They loved their neighbors as much as they loved themselves.

Then the first human beings disobeyed the commandment of God, choosing to follow their own will rather than God's will. This was the Original Sin.

As a consequence the first human beings lost the grace of original holiness, and became subject to the law of death; sin became universally present in the world.

Besides the personal sin of the first human beings, original sin describes the fallen state of human nature which affects every person born into the world. Therefore we are not responsible for Original sin but we are affected by it.

It was this fallen state from which Christ, the "new Adam," came to redeem us. Jesus makes paradise available to us again and teaches us how to live there, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

With love in Christ.

Answer 7

In Adam's fall, we sinned all.

Meaning...Adam and Eve fell from a state of grace with God, were cast out of the garden and His direct presence, and the rest of humanity (from whence we all have come) have also been fallen. Therefore, we were all born into Original Sin. We are all unrighteous. In order to be restored to the perfect relationship with God, Christ died for us to become our righteousness and correct the rift between God and us.

The actual *sin* was disobeying God by eating from the only tree in the garden that God said to not touch. It was the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil.

Answer 8

I have yet to find that term in the Bible. It's a concept linked to the fall of man, the garden ofeden, which shows that everyone has the capability to sin. But there is nothing in the Bible that points to that at all... and I would think Jesus would have made it an issue if it were that important.

Answer 9

was Adam and Eve eating the fruit off the tree of knowledge. That was the orginal sin which is why there is sin today hadnt they not done that we would be a sin free world and we would be living in paradise.

Answer 10

Your born with it, Adam and Eve committed the original sin.