Original Sin or Original Forgiveness?

Hi! I'm a pastor. You've asked a really excellent question here.

I'm not sure I can answer all of it, but let me give you some thoughts. Let's start with where a soul comes from. Most people imagine that when a child is conceived or born, God puts a soul into that person.

That's not true. If we are born with a sinful nature (the desire to sin), then that would mean that God created our soul to be bad or sinful. God does not create anything bad.

He creates things good and they become corrupted afterward. The real way we get our soul is the same way we get our bodies. We get them from our parents.

More specifically, our soul comes from our father. When Adam sinned, his soul became corrupted. When his children were born, he passed that corrupted soul down to them, just like you inherit certain flaws in your parents DNA that cause you to be bald or look a certain way or have genetic diseases, etc. If something is wrong with their DNA, you're going to inherit their problems.

Something was wrong with Adam's soul so he couldn't pass down a good soul to them. I say the corrupted soul is passed down through our fathers because of Jesus. He didn't have a corrupted soul because His soul came straight from God and His mother, Mary, not a human father.

Because Jesus did have a human mother but did not have a sinful nature (corrupted soul), the sinful nature cannot come from our mothers. This theory of the sinful nature being passed down through our fathers is called Traducianism, by the way. Adam was most likely forgiven for his sin because we see him and Eve worshipping God afterward.

But his being forgiven doesn't mean the consequences of his sin was taken away. He still wasn't allowed back in the Garden of Eden. He still had to die.

His soul was still corrupted and so he still had to struggle with temptation throughout his life, just as we do, and he still passed that corrupted soul down to us. I agree that Adam is responsible for our sin, but God has already forgiven him, no matter what we do. Think about it like this: If I do drugs and then give drugs to my little brother and he gets hooked and goes to buy his own, I might get arrested for doing drugs myself and giving them to someone else, but I'm not arrested for him making the choice to buy his own.

Yes, I got him hooked. Yes, he wouldn't have bought his own without me first giving him, but he also makes his own choice when he goes to get more. Adam has passed down the corrupted soul.

We're predisposed to sin. We're hooked on it. But we also have the choice to repent or to continue in it.

At some point, the responsibility has to transfer from Adam to us, just like it would with my little brother and the drugs. Hope that helps! - Pastor Rob.

I would say the Bible isn't a great source of truth and you shouldn't worry about what the Bible says... But biblically, I think it was Eve who first ate the apple (not sure). Regardless, whoever ate the apple serves as a sort of model to *not* follow, so the person who ate the apple went against the rules, and they have "sinned". Because of this, the Bible says Jesus died on the cross, and it acts as a reminder for Christians to not go against whatever their god says, otherwise you're causing the death of a literally selfless person.

In my opinion, I don't see how someone can sin by eating an apple... What if they were hungry? Jeez the Christian god needs to chill...

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.