Muslim thoughts about original sin, Jewish thoughts about original sin, Mormon thoughts about original sin?

[StrawberryJam]

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[Kaninchen]

What’s ‘original sin’?

 

[StrawberryJam]

What’s ‘original sin’?

I don’t understand the whole idea at all, and it does not even need to be IMHO.

 

[jakasaki]

I believe "new"islamic threads/inquiries about islam have been banned from the new mod of this section as of yesterday.

 

[Todd520]

I ask in this forum, that there be no debate whatsoever between any of the ones I asked for information. Please, do not derail the thread to promote agendas.
I just want facts, no emotional responses. No tainting or poisoining of the well posts.

The LDS view
There is original sin in the sense that the Fall of Adam and Eve caused all people live in a fallen condition, separated from God and subject to physical death.

However, man is not condemned by the “original sin.” Man is not accountable for Adam’s transgression in the Garden of Eden. Men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression.

 

[PaulDupre]

The LDS view
There is original sin in the sense that the Fall of Adam and Eve caused all people live in a fallen condition, separated from God and subject to physical death.

However, man is not condemned by the “original sin.” Man is not accountable for Adam’s transgression in the Garden of Eden. Men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression.

That is actually very similar to the Catholic view. See CCC sections 396-412, especially 402-405.

The consequences of Adam’s sin for humanity

402 All men are implicated in Adam’s sin, as St. Paul affirms: “By one man’s disobedience many (that is, all men) were made sinners”: “sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned.” The Apostle contrasts the universality of sin and death with the universality of salvation in Christ. “Then as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men.”

403 Following St. Paul, the Church has always taught that the overwhelming misery which oppresses men and their inclination towards evil and death cannot be understood apart from their connection with Adam’s sin and the fact that he has transmitted to us a sin with which we are all born afflicted, a sin which is the “death of the soul”. Because of this certainty of faith, the Church baptizes for the remission of sins even tiny infants who have not committed personal sin.

404 How did the sin of Adam become the sin of all his descendants? The whole human race is in Adam “as one body of one man”. By this “unity of the human race” all men are implicated in Adam’s sin, as all are implicated in Christ’s justice. Still, the transmission of original sin is a mystery that we cannot fully understand. But we do know by Revelation that Adam had received original holiness and justice not for himself alone, but for all human nature. By yielding to the tempter, **Adam and Eve committed a personal sin, but this sin affected the human nature that they would then transmit in a fallen state. It is a sin which will be transmitted by propagation to all mankind, that is, by the transmission of a human nature deprived of original holiness and justice. And that is why original sin is called “sin” only in an analogical sense: it is a sin “contracted” and not “committed” - a state and not an act.

405 Although it is proper to each individual, original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam’s descendants.** It is a deprivation of original holiness and justice, but human nature has not been totally corrupted: it is wounded in the natural powers proper to it, subject to ignorance, suffering and the dominion of death, and inclined to sin - an inclination to evil that is called concupiscence". Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ’s grace, erases original sin and turns a man back towards God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man and summon him to spiritual battle.

 

[seeker57]

What’s ‘original sin’?

That was going to be my question.

I did a bit of research and found it has something to do with the legend of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden.

It also has something to do with the practice of baptism.

A curious belief.