I say it was the sin of the murder of Abel. You were born into the class of Cain. Abel is the Christ because he was good. Cain became the anti-christ when he murdered the Christ. You are a decendant of Cain therefore a member of the family of the anti-christ and are being punished as a punishment to Cain.
When you pray to forgive you for your sin do you also say you would never do it again and that you are sincerely remorseful for gods loss of Abel? If you do not you are not following the law and will never be granted clemency and probation to have time to prove that you can be rehabilitated before you die.
This is very good information beiong delivered to you by God.
You have free will to choose to live with the resurrected spirit of Abel or die with the condemned spirit of Cain. A major mistake in Christianity and the humnan sacrifice concept of the Cult of Julius Caesar and his son Octavian who became the myth of Jesus.
2007-11-23 03:11:35 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Sins is disobeying a law of God. God said Adam and Eve could eat of every fruit from every tree of the Garden of Eden except the tree of knowledge of Good and of Evil. With a challenge for more wisdom and knowledge by the devil they chose to eat of the fruit. The moment they did the physical act of ate the fruit they broke God's law. From that one act sin entered into all the world by default since all of their children would be born in sin. Sin separates man from God. Thousands of years Jesus Christ undid what Adam and Eve did so that man can once again have a righteous and holy relationship with God.
2007-11-23 03:45:14 · answer #1 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have a serious error here, in your assumption that we are all descended from Cain. Adam and Eve had other children.
The nature of original sin is debatable. The most general description (Romans 3:23: "...all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God....") can be taken as a definition: that falling short is itself the separation between us and God and the evidence of our failures, i.e., sin. It's the human condition, and we need to become redeemed, saved, justified (put in the proper position) because of our imperfections, regardless of how well we do, how good we try to be, or how obedient we are.
I can make nothing of your reference to a cult of Julius Caesar and his nephew (not son) Octavian. I see no particularly striking relationship between Christian doctrine and their history.
2007-11-23 12:32:48 · answer #2 · answered by Samwise 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was not born in sin. I don't believe any of those stories that try to tell us what we are and where we came from. If Someone is to believe it different OK But that doesn't mean I have to live with the labels that they want to put on others. If you think we are sinners OK that is what you think I think I am a free man to live as I choose and nobody has the right to tell me anything else because I am Not telling anyone else what can or can't do
Live Long Live Free
2007-11-23 12:26:32 · answer #3 · answered by The answer guy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sin that is being referred to that Adam and Eve allowed themselves to be tempted into disobedience. When you were a young child who did you murder? No one I presume. However, you were probably often tempted to disobey whether it be taking a cookie before dinner, sneaking out to go somewhere or what have you. But that is the sin that is referred to in the Bible. Jesus is not a myth, he was a living, breathing person who died for us to be able to have direct contact with God.
2007-11-23 13:54:21 · answer #4 · answered by Miss Understood 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People misread the Bible. It was never meant to be taken literally. Our concept of scientific truth, of specific correspondence, was completely foreign to the people who wrote it. It is a mystical text, meant to accompany one in one's reflexions or prayers.
What is the forbidden fruit? The fruit from the tree of knowledge. What is its effect according to the snake? To make one knowledgeable of good and evil. What is Adam and Eve's first reaction after eating the fruit? They know shame.
In other words, the condition of man is defined as that of a being that has alienated himself from the natural world. Animals do not have this problem and thus do not know of moral dilemma. This is what the text is about.
2007-11-23 11:25:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"The name of this monstrous absurdity is Original Sin. "A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality. If man is evil by birth, he has no will, no power to change it; if he has no will, he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral. To hold, as man's sin, a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man's nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality, nature, justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched...
"...What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state they consider perfection? Their myth declares that he ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge—he acquired a mind and became a rational being. It was the knowledge of good and evil—he became a moral being. He was sentenced to earn his bread by his labor—he became a productive being. He was sentenced to experience desire—he acquired the capacity of sexual enjoyment. The evils for which they damn him are reason, morality, creativeness, joy—all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man's fall is designed to explain and condemn, it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt, but the essence of his nature as man."
2007-11-23 23:39:39 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. Wizard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The conditioning that 'you were born in sin', THAT is the sin.
This sin is handed down (so much is true!) but only since the advent of christianity.
2007-11-23 11:50:54 · answer #7 · answered by shades of Bruno 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Concept of sin used to be a smiple method of making people obey and adhere. Nothing more, and nothing less.
2007-11-23 11:32:45 · answer #8 · answered by Dr. Girishkumar TS 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
sin is if you believe it,and some body going to make money out of you for the rest of your life
2007-11-23 11:55:20 · answer #9 · answered by ppe 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve's sin . The "original" sin.This is what the bible means when it says: "you are born in sin."
2007-11-23 11:17:11 · answer #10 · answered by Jeffrey M 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋