The first mention of the concept of Original Sin is found, not in Genesis, where the fatal event was supposed to happen, but in the fifth chapter of Romans, written by Paul. According to Paul, humanity was cursed because Adam sinned when he ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
If Original Sin is a doctrine created by Christianity and imposed upon Jewish scriptures, what reason is there to take it seriously?
2007-06-08 17:49:50 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There isn't a reason to take it seriously. That's why I don't.
2007-06-08 17:53:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
OK now. The first recorded sin committed by mankind occurred in the Garden of Eden and is recorded in Genesis chapter 3. This is the sin referred to in Paul's writing to the chuch in Rome. Roman's 5:12-21. It is not something contrived by the Christian Church. Please read again the 3rd chapter of Genesis, the first book of the Torah- You will find the account of the fall of man eating from the forbidden tree in this passage
God bless
2007-06-10 15:16:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It clearly states that God curses man and woman because of eating from the tree.
We are not talking about a vague scripture reference.
I think you need to re-read Genesis again.
You are forgetting that all scripture is god breathed.
If you believe the bible is the word of god, then you must accept the fact that Paul was writing this under the influence of the spirit of god.
God Bless
2007-06-10 15:44:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's something I've always wondered about myself. I personally do not believe in the concept of original sin. I believe that we were all born neither inheritly good nor inheritly evil, but with the choice to become either. Is that not what the concept of free will is all about?
And, in the Christian tradition (as mentioned by Paul) the purpose of the death upon the cross was to free mankind of original sin...which would inevitably mean that this idea/concept/issue is moot in present day.
2007-06-08 17:54:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Another false teaching. It makes no sense if you accept God to be the most merciful and most loving. Why should we Pay for someone elses sin when we have our own to deal with. It is the only way they can cover up that they took out of the bible everything to do with karma, reincarnation. Why is a child born blind and in a poor family and another rich and in a wealthy family? Does god say eni, meeny miney moe,- you get this for no apparent reason and you get that for no apparent reason. Why does one get a better situation than another. We should all get it equally if original sin is true. It is a lie. They are born that way due to thier past life activities. (they get another broth due to they didn't want to surrender fully to God so they came back. For the original New testament before King Constantine changed so many things with his click of scribes in 324 AD at the council at nicea google gospelofthenazirenes.com The Truth will set you free.
2007-06-08 18:00:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
nicely it suits into the renowned worldwide. people are stained with the unique sin. If Adam and Eve had no longer sinned interior the backyard, they could have been sinless and lived for eternity, yet they became grasping and wanted to be as knowledgeable as God. Evil tempted them to insurrection and evil gained. Adam and Eve suffered the ends up of their sin till the day they died. Sounds a sprint like existence -would not it?
2016-12-12 15:50:33 · answer #6 · answered by yasmin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The doctrine of original sin didn't come into play until around 400 AD. St. Augustine put that together.
2007-06-08 17:56:43 · answer #7 · answered by Queenie in the vitamins 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is no reason for sane people to take it seriously. It's a myth created for people who believe such things wholeheartedly and a way to keep them coming back and giving money to the church, the original commandment....
2007-06-09 00:31:01 · answer #8 · answered by Stew 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You sound like a little child asking mommy, "Why can't I poke my eye out?"
Sin is not something you DO, it is a state you are IN. It is simply a separation from God. Everybody is there sometimes, some people are there permanently.
When you are not separated from God, you have a sense of love and beauty and being at-one with creation. In that state, one is incapable of doing wrong or hurtful or evil things, because it would be felt just like you would feel it if you burnt yourself.
The only time you can do anything evil is when you don't have God in your heart, because then you can't feel hurt or evil and don't know if you're doing it or not. That's why people in sin do evil over and over - it's like beating their heads on the wall trying to feel something - anything.
2007-06-08 18:04:50 · answer #9 · answered by Tangerine 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Without original sin, you simply have free will and give yourself prerogatives that belong to God rather than view yourself as the totally depraved person that you are. This is why Arminians reduce original sin to a sickness rather than death, they cannot have free will if it exists. And they relegate this doctrine to being "man-made" even though it is scripturally sound.
2007-06-08 17:57:43 · answer #10 · answered by ccrider 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Invented by God I suppose, ever read the story of Adam and Eve? They died, as God warned them they would all have died since and all have sinned. Get the picture? The Bible teaches all have sinned and so far everyone seems to die. The Bible says the wages of sin is death. We all sin we all die. Sin and Death entered the world and are very much still here Jesus did overcome both and by faith we have too.
The story of Adam and Eve was handed to Moses in 1500 BC
over 1500 years before Christianity.
2007-06-08 17:57:28 · answer #11 · answered by djmantx 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋