The Justice in Original Sin

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This is a question with which I have been grasping at unsuccessfully. I have yet to see the justice in punshing all of creation for one man and one woman’s sin. Any help on the issue would be appreciated:D.
 
Well, we are descended from Adam and Eve, and nobody else. They were originally sinless, and they sinned. That contamination, that offense against God, didn’t just stop with them, though. What original sin does to us is not so much ‘give us’ concupisence, or the ‘tendency’ to sin, as ‘acknowledge’ that simply as descendents of Adam and Eve, that is part of what they did to themselves and humanity. If God had ‘lifted’ original sin from us without sending us a savior, that would have been injustice.

For no sin just affects one person. Sin offends against God and against nature itself, so that nature itself becomes tainted. The earth has become tainted due to that sin.

Original sin is justice. Jesus our Savior is mercy.
 
FuzzyBunny116 said:
This is a question with which I have been grasping at unsuccessfully. I have yet to see the justice in punshing all of creation for one man and one woman’s sin. Any help on the issue would be appreciated:D.
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I’ve been thinking about the Fall a lot too. I like the way the Eastern Church teaches this. That original sin is more like an inherited disease for us as descendents than a “punishment”. We find ourselves in a fallen state or condition which is subject to death, suffering, and gravitates toward evil. Because we have free will, God has used this Fall to bring about a greater good by sending His Son to redeem us and offer us a world to come that will be even greater than that original state of man.

Before Jesus came, man had gone so far off track that it was impossible to find his way. His death and Resurrection have made it possible for us to find our way back to God through love and obedience to Christ. By being content to remain separated from Him, we keep ourselves subject to our fallen condition and eventually subject to everlasting separation, which is hell. 😦
 
DesertBrother said:
I’ve been thinking about the Fall a lot too. I like the way the Eastern Church teaches this. That original sin is more like an inherited disease for us as descendents than a “punishment”. We find ourselves in a fallen state or condition which is subject to death, suffering, and gravitates toward evil. Because we have free will, God has used this Fall to bring about a greater good by sending His Son to redeem us and offer us a world to come that will be even greater than that original state of man.

Before Jesus came, man had gone so far off track that it was impossible to find his way. His death and Resurrection have made it possible for us to find our way back to God through love and obedience to Christ. By being content to remain separated from Him, we keep ourselves subject to our fallen condition and eventually subject to everlasting separation, which is hell. 😦
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The Western Church has since changed its way of wording it, but still the same. The Eastern definition is positive of course.

The Western Church emphasizes a lack of Divine Life do to the sin of Adam and Eve. A western emphasis on the desperate need for Jesus’s grace and the Eastern emphasis on the hope for this grace, are complementery.
 
Image_of_God said:
The Western Church has since changed its way of wording it, but still the same. The Eastern definition is positive of course.

The Western Church emphasizes a lack of Divine Life do to the sin of Adam and Eve. A western emphasis on the desperate need for Jesus’s grace and the Eastern emphasis on the hope for this grace, are complementery.
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The Western defintion of Original Sin is not “negative” though.

Think of it this way. If through Jesus, salvation is possible for every man without merit, how can Adam’s sin through which every man is born into sin be unjust?

Jesus’ death was an unjust one, yet he made it possible for everyone to recieve life, yet no one comments about that…😃
 
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