The Cause And Effects Of 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 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 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

Along with providing information on the origins of the natural world, Genesis also provides insight into how the world was originally intended to function. After God was finished with his creative work, He declared that everything was “very good” (Genesis 1:31). At this point in time, all of creation was living in perfect harmony—until Adam and Eve sinned. After Adam and Eve gave into Satan’s temptation, sin entered the world and changed how the natural world functioned. Genesis chapters 3-11 show continuous examples of how sin infected the natural world. Animals had to be killed (Genesis 3:21 and 4:4), death entered the human race (as can be implied from Genesis

relationship of Adam and Eve in the Bible changed forever once sin entered their life and

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

Original Sin, in short was the story on how Adam and Eve got kick out of the Garden by eating the apple. If we continue to look into English religion, God create men first, then create women for the men. Native American had a different idea on how we were created. The Iroquois creation story believed that a woman came from Heaven and a tortoise back was the land we live on. A spirit saw that the woman was lonely and give her three children, two sons and one daughter.

When God made Adam and Eve everything was good. There were no signs of pain, harm or sickness. According to the book of Genesis 1:31, God looked at everything he had made and it was very good, Adam and Eve lived in complete harmony in the garden of Eden the serpent came along and tempted them to eat fruit from the tree which God commanded them not to eat from. It was because of that sin that sorrow entered the world. Man sins against God in Genesis 3:6-7, and God shows Adam and Eve the consequences of sin in Genesis 3:16-19..

This destroyed the delicate balance of the world. From then on, there was to be hostility between humans and other creatures. Humans would have to battle constantly to grow enough food. Pain, such as that resulting in childbirth, entered the world, along with death. The first sin also caused the world to become distanced from God. In this new and damaged environment, remote from God, moral evil flourished and spread.

“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

What is sin? The bible refers to sin as breaking the law of God.(1 John 3:4) The bible also refers to sin as rebellion against God. (Joshua 1:18) Sin began when Satan was still an angel of God and was not satisfied with his placement. He aspired to be more powerful than God, and this was Satan’s first sin. (Isaiah 14:12-15) When Satan came to earth and tempted Adam and Eve (Genesis 3), he bought sin along with him for everyone else in the world too. Since then, sin as be brought down from generations. And because everyone is descendants of Adam, we all inherit the habits of sin. (Romans 5:12) I believe that because we were all born into sin, that everyone will

“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

However, they rebel and sin enters the world after a serpent tricks Eve into questioning God’s love and motives. In her gullible innocence, she ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3). Eve shared the fruit with Adam and they spiritually and physically die. This was catastrophic to Gods Order and led to the condemnation of all human beings (Roman 5:18). Immediately, they

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