2007-12-05 07:41:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the point I'm making is Adam @ Eve presumably had no knowledge of good and evil until AFTER they partook of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil....
always bothered me to then call it original sin...Jews don't have that doctrine....
2007-12-05 07:52:28 · update #1
@ I agree Jon M
2007-12-05 07:54:53 · update #2
They didn't know from right or wrong....or why name the tree that, why were they totally unaware of their nakedness, then had to cover...?
2007-12-05 07:57:12 · update #3
19 "Yet you ask, 'Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?' Since the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all my decrees, he will surely live. 20 The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him.
2007-12-05 08:21:10 · update #4
the passage above was shared with me...it contradicts the doctrine of original sin....
2007-12-05 08:22:13 · update #5
The Pauline doctrine of inherited sin is probably the most contradicted doctrine in all of the bible... (original sin)
2007-12-05 12:37:10 · update #6
Supposedly not.
Aside from the fact that all non-insane people are born with an innate knowledge that murder, theft, hurting others, etc is wrong, what about the others/
Kids who are too young to know the difference between right and wrong, and mentally ill or deficient people who don't know they're doing wrong, don't sin.
You have to know it's wrong in your heart for it to be a sin.
The inverse question is interesting to me: Can a person who performs an action that isn't a sin, if he believes it's wrong, commit a sin by that action?
2007-12-05 07:45:20 · answer #1 · answered by Acorn 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A worthy question.
Those that don't know the law, can't be judged by the law. God is just and merciful. He knows our hearts as well as our thoughts and actions. Thus, we are judged by what we do with what we know. If you are raised in a society that teaches you to kill the neighboring tribe because if you don't, they will kill you, then you cannot be faulted for doing what your people taught you to do. It is sort of like being obedient to the laws of the land and becoming a soldier in a war. You don't have anything personal against the enemy soldiers, but your country ordered you to destroy them for some political purpose. We assure ourselves that if we don't, our own country will somehow be in jeopardy. The natives I described at the beginning are more innocent than we are. We at least have some knowledge in advance that killing is not right. Yet, we fight because our country tells us to do so. The natives not only do as the leader's of their people direct, but they don't know any better either.
Thus, those that die, being ignorant of God's law, are partially judged according to what they did with what they knew, and then sent to the spirit world to learn the rest of the gospel program that they might be judged according to men in the flesh but live according to the spirit. This is why Jesus is recorded as having taught the rebellious in the days of Noah. That not only applied to those that died then but to all of God's children that die without the knowledge of the gospel. God is merciful and allows for all of His children to learn about His plan for them and gives them the opportunity to accept or reject that plan.
2007-12-05 08:09:22 · answer #2 · answered by rac 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Sin" is best defined as "an act that offends God." It has nothing to do with morality or even the concepts of "good" and "evil," save insofar as those terms are applied to "acts which please or displease God" respectively. Sometimes, they're apparently totally arbitrary - why should the eating of pork or shellfish offend God? Or the wearing of two different kinds of fabric? Or homosexual sex?
But the basic idea is that God set some rules down at some point in the past, and we'd better follow them, or He'll toss us to the charnel forever. I don't suppose it matters to this concept whether we know the Law or not.
2007-12-05 07:49:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
No, that would be like a baby or a mentally incapacitated person. Otherwise, everyone eventually develops the capacity to tell right from wrong.
2007-12-05 07:46:26 · answer #4 · answered by S C 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sin is violating the conscience first in order to violate the laws of God.
Everyone has a conscience - it is the sentry on guard to watch for your eternal never-dying soul. Anyone who runs past their conscience commits sin and is not wise.
2007-12-05 08:16:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sin is defined as deliberately doing something you know is wrong.
2007-12-05 07:46:36 · answer #6 · answered by Robert S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Define sin.
One man's sin, is anothers bloody lovin' debauchery.
2007-12-05 07:45:42 · answer #7 · answered by Zaya the Slaya 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who are these? Infants? Retardates?
2007-12-05 07:46:44 · answer #8 · answered by Averell A 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there's a difference between deliberate sinning and just being born into sin which is imperfection.
2007-12-05 07:47:59 · answer #9 · answered by tahoe02_4me62 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
they knew it was wrong to do because God told them not to.
2007-12-05 07:54:21 · answer #10 · answered by zeldagirl07 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋