What is original sin?

Question

really i want to know what it is? How come a baby can born with sin? How come somebody can die for our sin? Where is the logic??!!! Whereas Muslim believes every baby is sinless, every person is sinless until he or she commits a sin. Muslim believes everybody is responsible for their own sin, not others.

Does churches change their answer time to time? cause I always different type of answers for the same question!!!

Does churches change their answer time to time? cause I always get different type of answers for the same question!!!

Answer 1

original sin is spiritual intercourse... the communication of a lie into the mind, which is than communicated into the heart, becoming a false belief ... as Eve bought into the erroneous thought (aka, the serpent), and than went and sold it to Adam... it went from the Mind to the Heart.

A baby is not born with sin.
A baby is pure with respect to the divine attributes of God...
A baby is pure in spirit and pure in word (love and truth).

The Bible tells us that this begins to change around the age of 4.

Another person cannot die for our sin.
Jesus died for (because of) sin (iniquity).
NOT for (in place of) sin (iniquity).

Jesus, symbolizing Truth, dies because of iniquity (error in thinking), which is why it was Judas that betrayed Jesus.
Judas bought the field with the reward of inquity.
Judas (symbolizing iniquity) betrays Jesus (symbolizing Truth).

Well, looks like the Muslims got it right!

"For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."

Let us stand for life and peace by thinking spiritually!

Answer 2

The term is not used in the bible. However adam was given authority over all of God's creation & then sinned by yielding that authority to satin. Thus the curse & the very nature of sin in the heart of every man (woman) ever born save one.

Answer 3

When Adam and Eve fell from God's grace their offspring could not be in perfect grace because they were born in the fall. We are responcible for our sin, orginal sin is that urge to sin (kinda)

Answer 4

Adams sin in the garden of disobedience.

Answer 5

this is sin that you didn't commit yourself, according to some religious folk.. they claim that because of adam & eve's sin, everyone is damned... but that didn't last long, even according to the bible... see Deuteronomy 24:16 - "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin."

Answer 6

being an atheist is the ever biggest sin according to me

Answer 7

Beware belief systems that make simply being human "evil". They degrade the divine.

Answer 8

The Bible’s Viewpoint ~ What Was the Original Sin?

WHAT was the original sin? “Sex,” many people will answer. They believe that the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden was a symbol of sexual relations and that Adam and Eve sinned by committing a sexual act.

The idea is not new. According to historian Elaine Pagels, “the claim that Adam and Eve’s sin was to engage in sexual intercourse” was “common among such [second-century] Christian teachers as Tatian the Syrian, who taught that the fruit of the tree of knowledge conveyed carnal knowledge.” Also, to Christendom’s Church Father Augustine of the fifth century C.E., sin had its beginnings in sexual desire on Adam’s part. In fact, Psychology Today said “Adam’s sin was carnal knowledge.”

Others have taken the position that the tree of knowledge of good and bad represented knowledge itself. The Encyclopædia Britannica asserts that the “knowledge of good and evil” was “a classic expression for all knowledge.” That would mean that God wanted Adam and Eve to be ignorant and that they rebelled against him by seeking to expand their knowledge.

Both interpretations certainly paint a picture of an unfair and capricious Creator. Why would he create man with both sexual and intellectual needs and then allow him no means of fulfilling those desires without incurring a death penalty? Who would feel drawn to love and serve such a God?

Was Sex the Original Sin?
Many do not know that both these interpretations flatly contradict the context of the Genesis account. Let’s consider first the idea that God’s prohibition in Eden was really one against sexual relations. The law in question is recorded at Genesis 2:16, 17: “From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.”

Was that really a veiled reference to sex? Well, as recorded at Genesis 1:27, 28, God commanded the man and the woman to “be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.” How were Adam and Eve to obey that command without having sexual relations? Are we really to suppose that God gave them a command and then sentenced them to death for trying to obey it?

Besides, the Genesis account shows that Adam and Eve sinned separately, not simultaneously. Chapter 3, verse 6, makes it clear that Eve was seduced to eat of the fruit first and that “afterward she gave some also to her husband when with her and he began eating it.” So eating of the forbidden fruit would make an inept and farfetched symbol of sexual intercourse.

Was It Knowledge?
What about the claim that the forbidden fruit was a symbol of all knowledge? Actually, both Adam and Eve had already taken in plenty of knowledge before they disobeyed the law at Genesis 2:16, 17. Their Creator, God himself, was directly involved in their education. For instance, he brought all animals and birds to the man for him to name them. (Genesis 2:19, 20) No doubt Adam would have had to study each one carefully in order to give it an appropriate name. What an education in zoology! Eve, although created later, was also not ignorant. When questioned by the serpent, she showed that she had been educated in God’s law. She knew the difference between right and wrong, and she even knew the consequences of wrong actions.—Genesis 3:2, 3.

Interpretation of original sin as either sex or knowledge is just that—human interpretation, nothing more. Its weakness is shown up by the question of the faithful man Joseph: “Do not interpretations belong to God?” (Genesis 40:8) The Bible is much easier to understand when we do not impose human ideas on it but, rather, let it interpret itself. What, then, was the original sin? Well, the Genesis account gives us every reason to believe that the tree of knowledge of good and bad was an actual tree. We are told where it was in the garden, and it is spoken of in relation to the other trees. Its fruit was real, and Adam and Eve actually ate the fruit.

Was It Disobedience?
By eating of that fruit, what were they doing? The New Catholic Encyclopedia timidly suggests: “It could have been, simply, an open defiance of God, an insolent refusal to obey Him.” Is that not what Genesis clearly says? Romans 5:19 confirms the point: “By one man’s disobedience many were made sinners.” (The New Jerusalem Bible) The original sin was an act of disobedience.

While a sin of disobedience may seem simple on the surface, consider its profound implications. A footnote in The New Jerusalem Bible puts it this way: “It [the knowledge of good and bad] is the power of deciding for himself what is good and what is evil and of acting accordingly, a claim to complete moral independence . . . The first sin was an attack on God’s sovereignty.” Yes, “the tree of the knowledge of good and bad” symbolized God’s prerogative to set the standards for man as to what is approved or what is condemned. By refusing to obey God’s law, man was calling into question God’s very right to rule over him. God justly answered the challenge by allowing man to rule himself. Wouldn’t you agree that the results have been disastrous?—Deuteronomy 32:5; Ecclesiastes 8:9.

That is why the Bible’s theme, God’s Kingdom, brings so much hope. By means of that Kingdom, God promises to end oppressive man-rule soon and replace it with His rule—a government that will restore an earthly paradise—something Adam and Eve forfeited.—Psalm 37:29; Daniel 2:44.

Answer 9

It means you're so imaginative, you've committed an original sin, one nobody ever committed before.

Answer 10

There is no such thing as original sin.