Original sin through Adam?

[Madia]

Am I correct that original sin came into the world through Adam not Eve (Romans 5:12) and Eve’s sin was just a personal sin?

 

[Todd_Easton]

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church it says, in paragraph 404: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 sounds to me like Adam and Eve are both to blame for our fallen state.

 

[BayCityRickL]

Adam and Eve depict the Church on earth. Adam was the first priest. He was the firstborn human son of God.

Our inheritance of the guilt of original sin comes about by our spiritual and physical descendency from these first parents. They both did it, and we inherit it 100%. (just my take on it)

The inheritance of this guilt is depicted in Genesis by their expulsion from the garden of Paradise – we were expelled with them.

in the NT it says, “As in Adam all die” 1 Co 15:22

 

[Dr.Colossus]

Madia:

Am I correct that original sin came into the world through Adam not Eve (Romans 5:12) and Eve’s sin was just a personal sin?

Most translations of this passage render it as “through one man sin entered the world”, not specifically through Adam. Although some fairly recent translations (such as the New Living Translation) name Adam, the Latin Vulgate uses the word *hominem *which can mean the more general Man as in Human or person. In fact the New American Bible says that sin entered the world through one “person”.

Regardless, Paul is not making a specific point that it was Adam rather than Eve who sinned first or more gravely. He is saying that just as the entire human race was condemned by sin through the personal actions of one person (as opposed to society as a whole), so too were we all saved by one person, Jesus Christ.

 

[BayCityRickL]

You know, there was another thread on this subject started just a few days earlier than this. Check it out.