Should "original sin" be passed on to offspring? God does it, but should he, morally?

Question

For example, should the grandchildren of slaveowners become slaves to the grandchildren of slaves? Not fair, but is God?

Answer 1

God is fair and just, He has to be or He would cease to be God. I am LDS (mormon) and We believe that man will be punished for their own sins and not for Adam's transgression.

Answer 2

Specifically your question is should original sin be passed on. No it should not. We can make our own decisions and can become more than our parents were. We can hope to acheive more than was every achieved before and go further in life than ever before. It is important that we don't decide early on that something as trivial as being born a certain social class, a certain race, a certain time of day/year-- predetermine where we can go in life. If we just continue to punish the children for the acts of the parents, no one would ever be able to move forward. It would be a constant circle of revenge.

Two problems here 1)original sin vs 2)innocent as a babe. I think you start off innocent with a blank slate. Your decisions control your own fate.

Now as to Zeus and God and Jupiter--I gotta go with of course they aren't fair. We aren't fair, just, moral ourselves and it would be impossible for us to create a being that is completely fair. Instead we create what we know--gods who seduce, blame others, seek revenge. But thats not the creative lacking of the innocent babe.

Answer 3

What does slavery have to do with original sin? It is the creation of the human race by a sexual man that passes original sin to the next generation.

Forgiveness stops sin dead in its tracks. So it is not passed on the offspring. That is the essence of Christianity. There is a justice if you understand the mystical elements. But if you're stuck in the carnal mind, you will never understand and your oily thoughts cannot mix with the cleansing water.

Answer 4

Not quite understanding your question, but i think you are asking 'is God just for allowing bad things to happen to good people?'

To truly answer that question, you have to be willing to look all the way back to the beginning (and forgive me, but your question seems more of a statement of fact than a true question). If you look back, you will find a completely perfect world without any bad things ever happening to anybody ... at all. This world was given to humanity, but when we sinned against God, we defiled it. because we did what we did, God allowed it to be how we would make it (after all, it was his gift to us ... it wouldn't be right taking it back all of a sudden).

if you want to point the blame, you had better be pointing at us and not God.

Sorry it sounded so cookie cutter. Peace!

Answer 5

the original sin was no minor blunder. let me explain metaphorically....Mankind (that would be Adam in the story since that's the Hebrew word for Man) didn't just trip and fall, pick himself up and move on with his life. That would have been a minor blunder, easily forgiven. The original sin is more like mankind took a flying leap off a giant cliff and to this day is still falling. Got it?

okay now...the original sin...Mankind was not cast from paradise because they ate a piece of fruit that they were told not to, they were punished because they showed a lack of trust in God. That's why they took that flying leap off a cliff. The story goes that Eve (the Hebrew word for Life, not woman) tempted Adam with fruit and Adam would have you believe that it wasn't his fault but by taking the fruit he showed that he doubted God's word.

the original sin in other words..Mankind (that would be Adam) was tempted by Life (that would be Eve, who better to tempt a man than a woman). Mankind took a good look around at how the world and God worked. And Man was not happy with what he saw. he didn't like the way God decided who lived and who died, who ate or who went hungry so Man took matters into his own hands and decided that God was not capable of taking care of him. think about your history book...was there a time when mankind went from living off whatever the earth provided to cultivating the earth to provide food for himself? In your history book it was called the agricultural revolution. in the bible it is called the fall of man. Its called the fall of man because the people who wrote this story were not yet part of the revolution and couldn't understand why their brothers went from a life where food was readily available to a life where they had to break their backs to produce food for themselves. Those people (they thought) must have done something terribly wrong. the original sin. Isn't that how we live our lives today...we go to school 12+ years and work 40+ hours a week, for what? Life. to this day we do not trust God completely. but I think God understands...He came down as Jesus and took a walk with Mankind so he could understand why we still live this way. And I think at this point there was no turning around. We are all trapped in this sin. In the 60's a group of young adults (called the hippies) knew something was wrong and wanted to get out but you can't break free from a cage if you can't find the bars that are holding you in. so they gave up and resumed life the way Man intended it to be.

So I hope this gives you an answer to your question..God is not "passing" this sin to our children..we are giving it to them as soon as they are born.

Answer 6

God had a choice. He could have ended it with the original sin by not allowing Adam and Eve to procreate and been within His rights according to the law but instead he allowed mankind to continue to live and offered them a way out of their fallen race through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Answer 7

It's God's universe. He doesn't have to be "fair".

He set up the rules, He calls the balls and strikes, He is the ultimate umpire. There is no negotiation and it's His ballpark.

We all just play the game.

It's up to you. Hit a home run or strike out.

Answer 8

This is one of the reasons I find Christianity so preposterous. A benevolent, perfect God curses each and every single one of us with original sin from the moment we're born (and if we don't repent, we're punished for an eternity.)

Answer 9

I can't think of Mr. Adams first name. Senior Moment! Something ending in mo.

There is no such thing as original sin that is too absurd dor words.

Answer 10

You do not understand original sin. Original sin is death. Until Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of Eden there was no death. when sin entered the world death entered the world as a judgment. My personal sin cannot be imputed to anyone.

Answer 11

God does not "do it." It happened by the choice of the first humans. And, it does not condemn everyone. If you die with original sin on your soul you can still go to heaven, all that isrequire is that you are willing to.