If we are speaking of non-Christian religions, they do not hold that humans are born in a state of primordial guilt and alienation from God called ‘original sin.’ Even so, other religions do recognise the human condition is frail and even evil and distorted in some ways; all recognise salvation from our present condition is in some sense necessary.
**You have said something nice. I am a Muslim. We do not believe in he original sin. We do not believe that children are born with some sin. We do not believe that married man and woman when they meet (have intercourse), they are committing any sin. They are married. There is no sin. So any child born out of that meeting is also sinless.
There are many problems with church beliefs. Pardon me. The church needs the original sin so that Jesus will die for the sins of others and save the sinners. We do not believe that at all. We believe that every one will bear his own burden and that every one’s sins can be forgiven by God due to his repentence.
John the baptist and Jesus both were calling people to repent.
Another thing about Adam being a sinner. He was a prophet of God and we believe that all prophets are sinless. The church somehow believes in few prophets only and believes that all prophets are sinners except Jesus. Then they invent some reason for that too. But that could not be anything except some wishful thinking.
Adam made a mistake. He repented. He was forgiven. If he was forgiven by God then how could the effect of his mistake continue. To err is human. Forgiveness divine. Do you agree?
To err is human. Forgiveness divine. This slogan describes much of the matter. It is in the nature of man to make mistakes i.e. to err. That is what Adam did. It was not a sin. A sin is intentional disobediance and arrogance and being adamant on a bad deed.
The first thing is that Adam did not make mistake out of his own will. He was misled. Thattakes most of the air out of the baloon being blown about his sin. There was no sin. On top of that repentence and forgiveness. What does forgiveness mean? Does it mean some joke?
Another thing. The church says that the wages of sin are death. I tell you that whether you sin or do not sin, every one has to die. Adam was not the first man on earth as the bible thinks. He lived about 6000 years ago. There were many men walking about the earth before him and they were living and dying.
Adam was the first man who was given revelation, the knowledge towards spiritualism. The knowledge of God. He was the first prophet. What I am telling you is all from the Quran.
Your bible says something quite different. Coming back to the topic, all children are born innocent. Pardon me if I have butted in by a wrong manner. I wish all of you well.
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