Thank you so much St. Augustine for your view on hell, the depravity of man, the anger of God, and of course original sin! How’d he get the name “Saint“? We come into a buy louis vuitton gas mask broken world, but unbroken. We come into a sinful world, but not yet sinners. We have buy louis vuitton gas mask to make that decision on our very own. As an offense against God by man’s first parents, it made every man an automatic sinner, born without sanctifying grace. Really?
What corporation would produce a faulty product, over and over again? None that will stay in business. Why would God produce faulty humans. I have to agree with so many that remind us that we were “original blessings” long before we opt to line up with the sinful world.
Sin entered the world because it is THE WORLD! Duh !
I don’t have to embrace some convoluted hereditary story to get that! But, for buy louis vuitton gas mask Augustine, as for many theologians since, the idea of a primordial sin helped explain one of religion’s oldest mysteries: the existence of evil in a world supposedly created by a good God.
We live in the 3rd dimension! Mystery solved!
But Calvin and Luther couldn’t shake the buy louis vuitton gas mask religious conceptual marbles out of their heads either after a thousand years of evidence. For John Calvin, Adam’s fall “perverted the whole order of nature in heaven and on earth.” To Martin Luther, man was simul justus et peccator—a sinner savable by God’s grace received through faith alone.
Biological transmission, from a spiritual being? I don’t think so! Let me end with a buy louis vuitton gas mask few quotes from men far greater in knowledge and understanding than buy louis vuitton gas mask I………..
Dutch Theologian Ansfried Hulsbosch suggests that buy louis vuitton gas mask man is born to seek perfection; in so far as he fails to buy louis vuitton gas mask grow toward this spiritual goal, he is both “originally” and personally sinful. Englebert Gutwenger of Innsbruck University conceives of original sin “not as any kind of sin at all but rather as a buy louis vuitton gas mask divinely willed state of “innate indifference” from buy louis vuitton gas mask which each man will eventually make a decision for or against Christ, for buy louis vuitton gas mask or against eschatological life.
Vanderbilt Theologian Ray Hart, says original sin means “That you can count on man to be a bastard.” In a buy louis vuitton gas mask century that has so far produced Hiroshima, this is an insight that buy louis vuitton gas mask is hard to ignore. Søren Kierkegaard described original sin as a sense of dread; for most of mankind, it is still an uncomfortably familiar feeling.
I’ve got enough guilt to get over, let along to add the baggage of some mythical couple in a garden setting the tone for my life. Of course maybe I’m just stressing out and buy louis vuitton gas mask looking for getting another piece of religious guilt off my back. Coincidently, the buy louis vuitton gas mask Orthodox Christian church calls what the West labels, “original sin“, as “original guilt“.
Having found freedom & liberty in Jesus, the Christ: I stand!
I just think that being HUMAN is inherently confusing. We don’t KNOW ALL or SEE ALL. Because of that, it is easy to make mistakes. Staying in communion with the buy louis vuitton gas mask SPIRIT and doing what we see or hear the HOLY SPIRIT directing gives us the buy louis vuitton gas mask ability to make fewer mistakes.
The story of Adam and buy louis vuitton gas mask Eve to me only illustrates the confusion of being human and buy louis vuitton gas mask the need to live by the SPIRIT. The original sin is buy louis vuitton gas mask nothing more than operating on a plane different from the SPIRIT. Am I missing something?????
Original sin is man’s intellectual attempt to explain how EVIL got in the buy louis vuitton gas mask world which incidently, helps maintain church control of the people. How cool is buy louis vuitton gas mask that? NOT!