Catholic Church Original Sin

Act I: The God of Creation is the beginning of the biblical metanarrative where it talks about God is one and only in the book of Genesis. God is the creator of things which makes him sovereign over all things. Throughout the whole book of Genesis it speaks about the powerful God created the world and everything about it. This act relates to Christian worldview because everyone and everything were created for a reason and we should all cherish it. With that leading into Act II: Sin Enters the World, God created humanity in his kingdom with the story of Adam and Eve. Basically this story of Adam and Eve the first people of God’s creation rejected his authority by eating the interesting apple from the tree. The reason of their choices was with the help of Satan, Gods adversary. After this occurred the concept of sin

It is the basic crux of Christianity: Man is born a sinner. Throughout history, the nature of sin has seen many different faces and has changed to fit many different social expectations. As Bartleby the angel laments in the movie Dogma, “I remember when eating meat on Friday was supposed to be a Hell-worthy trespass.” His friend Loki counters with the observation that, “The major sins never change.” Although the list of the Seven Deadly Sins is never mentioned in the Bible, the concept has existed since before the Middle Ages. Anger, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, and sloth are present throughout human civilization even when they are not named as such or displayed as a set of seven. William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello is a literary

The first notable sin is Anger, being defined as becoming angry at someone or something to the point that one can lose control over their actions and words. The pilgrim who

The story of original sin takes place in the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve are the only humans on earth at the time God tells them that they could eat from any tree in the garden except one. After a serpent tricked them

Original sin leads back to the first two humans put on the newly created planet Earth. These people were named Adam and Eve. God put them in a garden called Eden, and they had the right to eat anything in their inhabitancy, with one minor restriction. Adam and Eve were assigned one tree that bared its fruit, which they could not pleasure their hungry bellies from. Both of them were well aware of this rule set out in front of them, except there became a test before Adam and Eve one day. Eve was all alone in the garden of Eden when a snake appeared and started talking to her. This serpent convinced Eve to eat the fruit from the forbidden tree, saying to her that she would gain god-like powers. God did not make talking snakes though, so it is easy to see that this was an

In 1741, during the period of the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards preached about what was the meaning of “sin”. He said that sinners are strictly disgusting to God because “Sin is an active force in the world that is ultimately controlled by the devil”. On Edwards’ eyes there was no

When each man or woman is given birth to this world by his or her mother, he or she has inherited the trait of sinfulness from the atrocity committed by Adam and Eve, the first predecessors to mankind on Earth. Their souls have been stained with the darkness of Hell, and their DNAs have been altered by the hand of Satan. Although such monstrous betrayal and contravention of God’s law are incendiary to Him, God follows, in contrast to the sinners, the beat of his pure heart towards humans’ sakes. Eventually, Jesus was sent to this world in the retrospect as a noble savior, who selflessly accepted to be persecuted and deceased for the deliverance of men from the Earth fouled by Lucifer. Instead of endeavoring to be perfectly moral, Christians

Reinhold Niebhur’s views on Original sin fall in line with my own actually; I do believe that man is inherently evil with power to do good. As much of a blessing that free will is, I believe it to also be a curse because nothing good comes free. With the freedom to make our decisions comes the responsibilty to not only know but also to understand the effects of them. Every action has a reaction, and sin is the reaction to free will. Niebuhr holds that man is responsible for his unintentional sins, even if there was no malice. Niebuhr argues through Pauline teachings that sin is essential; especially with man’s tendency for self-glorification. Pauline teachings indicate that human sin is an “inevitable defect” derived from the sin of the “first man”.

The doctrine of sin has significance through one’s personal life, there Church and, within their community as a whole. Personally, my theology concerning sin is twofold similar to Martin Luther and Dale Moody. Original sin from Adam and Eve is imparted upon all mankind. Therefore, all are condemned without the covering sacrifice that Jesus did for all of us. However, if one has not reached the age of accountability and dies, God in His mercy pardons Original Sin. Furthermore because they have not reached maturity to fully understand there Actual Sin, God in His mercy pardons them for Actual Sin as well. So if one has not reached the age of accountability they are welcomed into the kingdom of God in Heaven.

I learned a lot of important things about Christianity in this class that I had not previously known. I was unaware that Christians were the only ones who believed in the idea of original sin. “Christians differ from Jews and Muslims in their view of sin and how it is to be overcome” (Esposito 149). I found it odd that Christians would just take the Jewish bible and claim it as their own while making their own interpretations. I found it even more perplexing that Christians would not embrace their Jewish brother seeing as how the two are so closely related and God does call them “His

First articulated by Augustine (A.D. 354–430), the doctrine of original sin holds that all of Adam’s descendants inherit the guilt of Adam’s sin and thus incur the punishment for Adam’s sin. Inheriting Adam’s guilt at birth, then, presumes one guilty before God at birth and destined for hell. This is the basis for the Catholic need for infant baptism, for the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception (that Mary herself was uniquely conceived free of Adam’s guilt), and for the belief that salvation is only available through connection with the Church via baptism. Moreover, the belief that God holds Adam’s descendants personally accountable for Adam’s sin calls into question the importance of our own free will as

While reading the Gospel of John, I found the idea of ‘sin; particularly interesting. In the John, 'sin appears to be the barometer as to what is morally right and wrong. Nevertheless, while morals seem to be encoded in laws, sin still seems a distinct concept. I think we see this relationship in John 8:7, when Jesus writes “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” While Jesus is literally rewriting the law (as discussed in class), I think He is also redefining how sin can be conceived by the individual.

The original sin is the greatest tragedy that has ever befallen mankind. Because of Adam’s fall, the entire world has existed in a cursed, fallen state. However, in the

     Before Adam and Eve’s decision there was no sin or death, because of their actions we now have to deal with both. This brings up the question of where original sin came from. We know that God cannot create evil, so it did not come from Him. He gave man free will. From this man went against God and therefore created sin. Because of this we know have inherited depravity. We can not

Sin has been a force in the world since almost the beginning of creation. It is defined as, an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law. The first time sin is mentioned is in the Book of Genesis 4:7, “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.” When Adam and Eve ate of the fruit from the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden, they were disobedient to the will of God, and thus the world has lived in sin from then on. Every man born of a woman was born into sin and has faced the constant battle of choosing good over evil. Sinning is very easy to do, because a lot of times a person is sinning and