Is original sin genetic?

Question

The Bible says that all humans suffer from original sin except for Jesus because he didn't have a human father. I don't know how on Earth that doesn't say that original sin is genetic and transfered from the father.

And it sounds like a falsifiable scientific hypothesis.

Answer 1

Hehe... If it genetic, it's only a matter of time before scientists find it and isolate it. Then we definitely won't need Christianity anymore. :)

Answer 2

So when Science gets to the point where we can create a synthetic human being, will it give a crap about Heaven or Hell? No seriously, think about it. Our fears are preyed and played upon immensely by religious institutions. Original Sin is a great concept to manipulate people by guilt, shame, and fear that if they do not do as the institution states they will be burned and tortured yadda yadda yadda.... If we had human type peoples without Sin then perhaps a future of synthetic bipedal hominids would be better then a future of nonsynthetic monkey evolved anthrops?!...

What if through our further studying of the Human Genome we located and removed the Original Sin Gene? Hell I wonder if that would also take away the Gay Gene too?! Have they even found the Original Sin Gene? It probably is just another myth like the Gay Gene.

Nurture, Nature, Psychology, Genetics, Religion.... Out of all of these Religion is still the least credible, least positively contributing, yet most influential to Histories pathways. Original Sin is just as much as a joke to me as *Tabula Rasa is.

* Blank Slate Theory

Wait a minute though, shouldn't Womankind be the harbingers of the Original Sin Gene? Should not the Y be the one to carry the Gene and pass it on because Eve got deceived by snake dude? Are there not more and more stories of the female kind painted negatively in Christian Mythology? Shouldn't logically, the holders of Vagina's be the ones to blame? If Christian Science truly does exist, why is logic and the Scientific Method still kicking their Donkeys?

Oh and yes, it does sound like bunk!

~Void~

Answer 3

Never, Only God does that, Read Rev. 22:1-3 & there shall be no more curse & also verse 14, We shall once again have access to the tree of life. But all of this takes place after the milliunnienm which is when after the judgement of the wicked, We then will all that is born in that eternal age will be born with eternal life.

Answer 4

I'm a follower of the bible, but some parts I do not believe. I do not think that makes me a bad person. I believe in God and I do what I think is right morally, and what I think God will approve of. I do not hang onto every word in the bible. And I have never been baptized but yet I believe that I am more holy than most baptized people that I met. Babies are the most innocent beings on earth, and no one can tell me that they have sin in them. How could you be sinful if you don't even know right from wrong. The basic fact of the matter is that whether we want to believe it or not, but the bible was undoubtedly written by man. And man could have thrown in any little details or parts that they wished to. I do believe most of it is what God wants us to do, but not all of it.

Answer 5

Actually, I don't know about that. The Bible says we all sin, but it never says that we were born with it.

The only passage of that nature is when David said "In sin did my mother conceive me." Many translate this to mean that "I was in sin when my mother conceived me," but if you do a grammatical analysis, you'll see that it was his MOTHER who was in sin when she conceived him. There are some scholars that believe that David was illigitimat, and that was why when Samuel came by, he was ignored by his other brothers.

But, in either case, we DO sin, we ARE sinners, there is none righteous, no not one, all we like sheep have gone astray, we have each turned to his own way. But it is not genetic, it is a moral problem, otherwise God couldn't judge us. Tell a crippled child to run and then threaten to punish him if he doesn't? Not legit! God's not like that, either! We are punished for our own disobedience to God.

Ezekiel says that God says that He does NOT want to hear this saying, that the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge. He said that the soul that sins shall die, and the son shall NOT be put to death for the sins of the father. If Adam is our first father, then I think that this applies.

Our DNA might be corrupt because of all the times our ancestors sinned, but it is not, in and of itself, sin.

Answer 6

First of all, the whole concept of original sin is entirely spiritual, and thus cannot be tied down in a physical sense.

Second, even it it were, the process of genetics and inheritence means that you've only got a slight chance of inheriting that particular gene from you're father, and thus you'd end up with people being "half sinned" and half not.

Third, I thought jesus forgave us our sin after he died anyway? so we're all good ...

Answer 7

if that's the only part of the bible you found falsifiable, then we Christians are in good shape. Ha ha. No seriously, original sin came from Adam and Eve, who were born without sin. Eve committed the first sin, thus passed on through generations. Since technically we are all the sons and daughters of Adam & Eve, we are all born with original sin. Jesus was born without it b/c he is the son of God.

Answer 8

It is because Adam and Eve sinned, that it got passed down through generation to generation, so it is inherited sin. We are born into it. It doesn't have anything to do with genetics, it is not because of the body, but because of actions that sin came in to being. If they hadn't gone against GOD's teachings none of this would have happened.

Answer 9

I'm am NOT a believer in religion nor sin, but I understand and RESPECT the question and feel I have scientific proof to answer your question.

yes. at least some sin (sins that effect our body/mind and/or conscious, how you feel about your actions ) and their result, are genetic , or are "passed" genetically and the children have to pay the price for the sins of their parents.

its called epigenetics.
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=26386

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3411/02.html

Respect (something many people (at least 4) here are lacking ---- aka all the thumbs down....... grow up people)

I think ol Belzebot has a point there

Answer 10

That's interesting fodder for a novel - to explore the beginning of original sin from a scientific perspective. The idea of original sin is only dogma, but you could suspend belief to get your story out, kinda like the guy did with the DaVinci Code.

Answer 11

No, Jesus had the choice but he didn't because he was Gods son and he did what he should. Humans starting with adam and eve started with the apple, the apple only gave the knowledge of sin.