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

When talking about human nature many answers starts appearing depending on who you talk to. With many atheists claiming procreating and survival of oneself are part of human nature, but that should be considered our instincts. As many other species of animals are capable of demonstrating this trait and not considered human nature. The bible describes our nature of being good when God first created Adam in the beginning of genesis 1:31 “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.“ It was not until the fall of man that created sin and lead to the corruption of the original design that God had created. The mystery of original sin by Shuster describes the fall as “What went wrong in the beginning marks everything that follows. Adam’s sin not only

It was believed that original sin was created when Eve took the apple from the forbidden tree. Eve listened to the devil instead of trusting the word of God. Since Eve was a woman this is one of the reasons why some men believe that women have wicked tendencies. Some men who lived during the early Middle Ages believed that women were responsible for the creation of sin. Krammer and Sprenger note that “there was a defect in the creation of the first woman” (184), meaning Eve. Eve was created from Adam’s rib, which the authors say was “bent.” Since Eve was created from a bent rib that meant that she was “an imperfect animal” (184), because Eve was not perfect that means that she and any other female after her will always deceive

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

The everyday “sins” of typical college students are not of great severity at first, but by consistently repeating the “sins”, they could possibly become habits. Thomas H. Benton’s essay “The Seven Deadly Sins of Students”, describes the seven “deadly sins” that a typical college student makes in everyday life and how the recurrence of these “sins” could lead to habitual behavior. The seven “deadly sins” explained in Benton’s essay is: Sloth, Greed, Anger, Lust, Gluttony, Envy, and Pride. Constantly repeating these “sins” will eventually become habits.

But the love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we ever need--if only we had the eyes to see. Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural

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

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines sin as “an offense against religious or moral law”. People have many motivations to sin: greed, self-gain, and pleasure being prominent examples. In “The Scarlet Letter”, Hester Prynne is convinced that her husband is not coming to meet her at their new home in the colonies because she believes that he may have died. She then has an affair setting in motion the events of the story. In “Frankenstein”, Victor Frankenstein idolizes scientific knowledges thereby leading him to create and abandon his monster; this results in the deaths of three of Victor’s loved ones. In “Idylls of the King”, Pelleas becomes the Red Knight of the North after he experiences rejection by Ettarre and after Guinevere’s unfaithfulness to King Arthur is exposed. By using examples from “The Scarlet Letter”, “Frankenstein”, and “Idylls of the King” I will make the case that the initial sin of a person creates situations which cause

Read the assigned readings in Topic 3 (textbook chapter 4, Lecture 3, "The Mystery of Original Sin" article, and Bible passages) and address the following questions with a total word count (including questions) of 500-750 words.

“A human is fundamentally a dialogue between body and spirit” (Swidler, 2014:2). Our sin nature comes from the point when “The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”(Genesis 2:9, NIV) This tree that God created will later be used as a tool to enable humanity’s initial fall. “Now the serpent was craftier than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” “You will not

“The Day of Doom.” The concept of original sin is one that has survived through many generations and has manifested itself in one way or another in various different religions. In the Puritan faith it is the idea that all others are built upon. Essentially original sin states that every single person who came after Adam and Eve would be born carrying

“The doctrine of original sin is totally unacceptable to Jews.” Jewish belief, though derived from the many of the same scriptures, is entirely different from Catholic belief in this aspect. Judaism holds that, “man enters the world free of sin, with a soul that is pure and innocent and untainted.” It is Jewish belief that, essentially, humans are what they make of themselves and there is no notion of predestination as there is in Catholicism. The idea of original sin was invented by St. Augustine, so it did not come about until well after the establishment of a great deal of Jewish doctrine. This may raise the question as to why humans sin if the reason is not Adam. The dominant Jewish belief as to the reason people sin is, “…man sins because he is not a perfect being, and not, as Christianity teaches, because he is inherently sinful.” This idea is in line with the Jewish belief that each person has two impulses: one to good and one two evil. The impulses must be kept in balance, but there is no inherently evil aspect to a person and it is possible, though difficult, for a person to go their entire life without sin. Jewish doctrine seems to put more power in the hands of people on both ends of life in that people are not held accountable for the sins of others and there is no savior who will absolve them of their sins; Judaism holds that humans are responsible for their own

The Question of Morality - Mankind was created good, but sin entered the world through Adam according to

     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