Taking a Look at the Original Sin

The story of Adam and Eve is simple. God created man and gave him a wife and all the animals, along with the Garden of Eden. The only rule was that they could not eat the fruit from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil or the tree of Life (Genesis 2:8-3:24). Eve, tempted by evil, ate from the tree anyway and let her husband eat from it too.

During those six days, he created a man, and from the man he created a woman and allowed them both to eat from the Garden of Eden. They could eat from any tree in this garden expect one which was the Tree of Knowledge. A serpent appeared and convinced the women to eat from the tree, and she brought fruit from the same tree so that her husband could also eat from it. Once they ate the fruit, they became aware that they were naked and tried to hide from God when he reappeared. God found out that they ate from the Tree of Knowledge and decided to punish the serpent, the women, and the man; the serpent was to stay on his belly and eat dust, and the man and woman were banned from the garden. The man and woman were named Adam and Eve, and they had two sons named Abel and Cain. Cain grew jealous of Abel and killed him; later, Adam and Eve have another son named

Original Sin sheds light on various aspects of the doctrine of sin itself and its relation to other doctrines of faith. It deals with sinful state and nature while Actual Sin deals with sinful acts which are the natural fruits of sinful people and products of original sin. If we ignore the reality of original sin, our human will is affected and turns the opposite direction to sin. Also, we lose intellect which becomes darkened as a result of our fall from grace. Our human nature becomes completely corrupt making it impossible to save ourselves. With Actual Sin, we lose our peace, freedom and trust which ultimately leads to strife and disorder in our

To start with, the first man, Adam, is responsible for the original sin. Genesis 3 introduces the last creature the Lord made, the serpent (Everts 253). Though not clarified in Genesis 3, Revelations 12:9 considers the serpent to be “the devil.” The serpent tempts the first woman, Eve, to disobey the Lord. The serpent chooses Eve instead of Adam, because she is easier to manipulate (Everts 254). The Lord had allowed Adam and Eve to eat from any tree, except from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2.16-17). Eve gave the fruit from the forbidden tree to Adam (Genesis 3.6). When the Lord discovered that the two humans had eaten the fruit he forbade them from eating, he made the serpent eat only dust, made

By the beginning of the fifth century, the rate of growth for Christianity was increasing exponentially. However, there was a negative result of this rapid growth. What might have simply been a different interpretation of one person, spawned into indifference among the entire population of Christian followers. The Church wished for elimination of these indifferences to maintain the strength of true worship. However, they saw it essential to put down the beliefs of one man in particular, Pelagius. His views were observed as a true threat to Christianity’s entire existence . With the very foundation of Christianity in jeopardy, Saint Augustine aggressively disputed, with the support of his own past religious struggles, the arguments of

God made Adam and then Eve (out of Adam’s rib) and placed them in the garden of Eden to look after it. God told them “ You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Eve was convinced by a snake in the garden to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge to become like God and Eve then convinced Adam to eat the fruit. God found out and punished them. The snake lost his feet, Eve (and descendants) gets childbirth pain and to be controlled by her husband and Adam has to work for his food. In addition Adam and Eve get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. This shows that God can do wondrous things if you obey him, if you do not obey him he

Adam and Eve’s “pride” is what led them to sin, because the serpent had informed them that they could become self-sufficient and more knowledgeable. Their “undue exaltation” (Augustine XI.13), such as their desire to become self-sufficient and knowledgeable like God, allowed them to choose the wrongly directed path that God has not intended, therefore resulting in the first sin.

Genesis one and two explained the creation of the world and humans by God. God provided everything for humans to enjoy their life, but humans ate from the tree that God warned them to stay away from. In these two genesis the good nature of what God created was explained very well. God created the humans with positive characteristics in a positive environment. There are two aspects of human nature in Christianity, one is that humans were created in the image of God and second one is that humans are sinful by nature. The sinfulness of humans’ nature is due to the reason that humans are able to walk in the pathway that is against God’s desire. As it was mentioned in the Bible Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the

“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27) This verse in scripture discusses how not only did God create the heavens and the earths but he also created mankind perfectly in his image. When God had created man and woman he did so for the full purpose of man and woman to go out and make disciples (Matthew 28:19) and to also serve him and bring him all the glory (Romans 11:36). However because of the Fall of Adam and Even in Genesis 3 where Eve had disobeyed Gods orders Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:17) sin had entered into the world. Sin becomes apparent in Genesis 4 once again when Cain attacks and kills his

“The Bad Seed” is a prime example that supports “Original Sin” (nature over nurture) view of development. After watching the movie I agree “Original Sin” is the most relevant explanation of how humankind has developed. “Original Sin” was commonly believed in the middle ages that children were born into the world bad. With the evidence provided by the movie, life experiences and factual evidence I believe “Original Sin” is the most accurate.

Many Christians seem to forget that Adam and Eve were not the first creatures to sin. According to Scripture, Satan committed the first sin. When Satan sinned, he brought about his own spiritual death and the spiritual death of all the angels who joined him in his rebellion against God. Through Adam and Eve, Satan infected the human race with sin, but even that seeming disaster fits into God’s plan for conquering evil and revealing His grace and

Instead of telling God the truth, Adam started blaming Eve because he ate from the tree Life and the tree of Knowledge of good and evil. Eve blamed the serpent, so God punished both Adam and Eve.

This all goes back to “The Doctrine of Original Sin”. According, to this doctrine, formulated primary by Agustine, is that everyone of Adams decedents, so everyone who has ever lived right, they inherit this original sin, inherits this sinful nature. Think about a Duck that is born in a lake in the middle of an oil spill. God doesn't create things that are bad, but at the same time is almost like having this oil on you. That even though you are a God created being you are covered in this sinful nature that is going to limit your free will to an extent. So the question becomes, can we be cleaned? And if we can be cleaned, how much can we be cleaned? Now as for the Catholic teaching on free will, we can be cleaned through baptism. Baptism washes

The original sin is the disobedient actions from Adam and Eve when they ate of the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, the sin is seen as human moral of freedom that is weakened by the first sin. As time progressed, we see sin as a wrong doing but have not took into notice other sacred interpretation of the original sin in all religions.

At that fateful moment, Adam and Eve are standing together at the tree, and although only the woman and the serpent speak, Adam was present, and it seems he accepted the fruit that his wife handed him. He was fully complicitous, and indeed, Yahweh holds him responsible. Yahweh reproaches Adam. Adam says: Well, Eve handed to me. She gave it to me. Eve explains, the serpent tricked me. Yahweh vents his fury on all three, and he does so in ascending order: first the serpent for his trickery and then the woman, and finally the man. The doctrine of original sin, which is the idea that humans after Adam are born into a state of sin, by definition. The actions of Adam and Eve bring death to the human race, they don’t bring a state of utter and unredeemed sinfulness. In fact, humans have moral choice in each and every age. Adam and Eve after eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and bad, they also lose their harmonious relationship with nature. There had been a peaceful relationship between creatures and