Honest question, trying to be respectful-Original Sin?

Question

Something that really bothers me about the concept of original sin: God made us. Why should we feel bad about the way he created us? (i.e. tendancy for greed, sex, etc)

Please don't answer freewill. God made everything, every concept of the universes. He made our tendancies to do things if we are to use freewill.

So why do people feel guilty? Also, aren't we supposed to be created in God's image? This really doesn't make sense to me.

It seems as if:
1. God creates the Universes
2. God creates us
3. We have tendencies to do certain things, either because of the way He made us, or because of the universe around us.
4. God gives us freewill so we sometimes act on those tendencies instilled in us by God
5. We need to feel bad that we do those things.


Please real answers only. This is a real question.

Ok, well then why did God instill the tendancies in Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge?

God made Adam and Eve with the tendancies to want to know more. That's why they ate from the Tree of Knowledge. He made them, isn't He responsible for those tendancies?
Wouldn't he have known they would eat from the tree also?

Answer 1

Yeah... this "god" programs us one way and then says "this programming is evil, resist it!".

Doesn't make sense to me either.

Answer 2

When He created us we were meant to love others and God. When Adam and Eve were on Earth they had know idea about bad stuff UNTIL Eve ate from the tree of Good and Evil. So they sinned, because remember God told them not to eat from that ONE tree. So sin started.

Answer 3

God created us and said it was good very good. Freedom is very much misunderstood today. Freedom is very broad. God said, you may eat of all the trees in the Garden. Freedom has limits. God said, but you may not eat of the tree in the center of the garden, the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want to do that would be licence. Freedom is the ability to do what we ought to do. What should we do ideally, to know love and serve God and to love our neighbour as ourselves. We cannot do this if we are enslaved to sin.
We suffer the consequence and share in the effects of the original sin just as you would share in the sins of your parents or siblings. If your father raped or murdered someone heaven forbid you would share in that shame.
The tendencies you speak about are not of the original plan but are the responsibilities of the father of all lies the liar from the beginning, the purveyor of all perversions the Devil

Answer 4

Guilt is so you will know when you are doing something that you "should not" be doing. It's part of your moral compass.

We are born of sin because of the fall in the Garden. We were not created to sin (originally.) However, God gave us free will and therefore we miss-used it.

Because Jesus died on the cross for our sins, we are able to get back to relationship as it was before the fall (in the Garden.)

I mean think about it. How cool would it be to walk in the Garden and hang out with God. Talk about things all day long...oh wait, we can...and some of us do.

Answer 5

Without the original sin of disobedience, through eating of the tree of knowledge, we would not have known greed, lust and sin.
It wasn't until after they had eaten of the tree of knowledge that they realized they were naked and covered themselves.

Answer 6

sex is not original sin, disobedience is. God created us to love Him, but in order to love, we must choose to love. We were offered a choice, so that we would choose to love. if love were the only choice, would it really be a choice at all?