Original Sin Common Misconception Original Sin is the first sin committed by Adam and Eve Instead Original Sin refers to its consequences The Westminster Confession expresses the results of the Fall ID: 616050
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Original Sin
Common Misconception
”Original Sin” is the first sin committed by Adam and Eve
Instead “Original Sin” refers to its consequences
The Westminster Confession expresses the results of the Fall
“By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body
…From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.” Slide3
Original Sin
We are sinners not because we sin. Rather, we sin because we are sinners.
Which one of these phrases does Scripture affirm. Why? Slide4
Scriptural Affirmations about Original Sin
Extent of sin
: Universal
Intensiveness of Sin
: Total
Are we morally neutral?
No. We would expect someone to live w/o succumbing to sin. But we know this isn’t true
Some say if it wasn’t for our culture, then we wouldn’t sin, but human beings make up the culture, so this explanation doesn’t work. Slide5
Original sin is itself a judgment of a righteous God upon creatures that He created to be good.
God gave Adam and Eve over to their wicked inclinations, which included us. Slide6
Moral Inability
Augustine’s insight is crucial for better understanding Original Sin.
Posse
Peccare
- Ability to sin.
Peccare
– to sin
Adam & Eve were not created as sinners, but had the ability to sin. Slide7
Adam & Eve also were created
Posse Non
Peccare
or Ability
Not to
sin
After the fall, the human race
lost
Posse
Non
Peccare
Our current position:
Non
Posse
Non
Peccare
No longer
able not
to sin Slide8
God’s Standard
Mark 10:18; Romans 3:10
This isn’t to say we can’t do good things, but we are not morally able to do the good that God requires.
John 6:65
Jesus is not saying that no one is allowed to come to Him, but that no one can, or is able to, come to Him unless God does something. Slide9
Theories of Original Sin
Pelagianism
Human beings are created free from controlling influence, including any determining influences of the Fall.
Thus Adam becomes a bad example to Human Beings
Summary: God imputes neither a corrupted nature nor guilt to humankind. Slide10
Theories of Original Sin
Semi-
Pelagianism
(Arminianism)
Humans need special divine help (prevenient grace)to fulfill God’s commands.
Summary: God imputes a
corrupted nature but not guilt
in the sense of culpability.Slide11
Theories of Original Sin
Augustinianism
God imputes both a corrupted nature and guilt