Essay on Original 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

Things change when the serpent appeared to Eve and talked her into eating from the exact tree that God commanded them to eat from. Genesis 3:6 says, “So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate” (NIV). This is where the root of all human problems began. This is why all humans are born as sinners.

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

Understand the various incorrect views regarding the nature or definition of sin as provided in the textbook and the lectures.

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.

Original sin is a widely discussed issue in theology. Original sin is a gift bestowed upon mankind from the actions of betrayal displayed by Adam and Eve to God. Two prominent theologians who have spoken about original sin are Reinhold Niebuhr and Valerie Saving. Niebuhr’s explorers the debatable notion of original sin. Meanwhile Savings focuses on woman in theology; how both genders do not share the same values in sin.

“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

“First, humans are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-28). Second, after the fall of Adam and Eve into sin, all humans are sinful by nature (Genesis 6:5; Romans 3:9-23)”. (“Departure from Wisdom”, Diffey, n.d., para. 9). In the beginning God created humans in his image and placed them in the Garden of Eden to live and work. They had dominion over the earth. In this time there was no sin. Once Adam and Eve were tempted and ate from the tree that was forbidden this all changed. This act introduced the sin into the world. Because of this temptation could be considered of one of humanity’s

“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

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.

133). John Wesley, according to his sermon, Justification by Faith (1872), felt people are made in the image of God but because of sin are now dead to God unless they are justified by the reconciliation through Christ. Wesley recognizes the brokenness of humanity, but teaches that by the ever increasing gift of unmerited grace we can move into the total perfection of Christ. The sin committed by Adam and Eve corrupted humanity so that our soul and body became subject to death. God sees and judges us accordingly; therefore transformation, sanctification and spiritual holiness are based on His goodness and not based upon any work of people.

He taught that original sin was an act of insipientia . Adam and Eve, could live in a land of paradise as long as they didn 't eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Through temptation and their pride Eve ate from the tree and through ignorance. Adam ate what Eve shared with him. They wouldn 't have plunged into their pride and lack of judgment if Satan, a fallen angel, hadn 't instilled a root of evil into them. With doing that, sin almost becomes a gene of our DNA passed down generation to generation. Even in infancy, one has sinned, he states. “No one is free from sin in your sight, not even an infant whose span of earthly life is but a single day”

     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