Original Sin Versus Real Sins.
Again the rule applies…If a theological word or phrase is not in the scriptures….that is a red flag and the magnifying glass should come out and these words and phrases should undergo strict scrutiny. Because it is usually someone trying to override the scriptures with a false belief.
The Bible definitely shows that human nature is flawed, not because all of us are bad people but because without the guidance of our heavenly Father we do not know what is right. And then even after we know what is right we will still mess up. But babies are not born with sin on their souls nor do they go to Hell.
The author of the doctrine of Original Sin was St Augustine.
St Augustine, who largely devised the doctrine of Original Sin, thought that original sin was transmitted from generation to generation through sexual intercourse.
To understand the origins of Original Sin you have to do a study on St. Augistine and the easiest way to that is to read his own writings, they are still in print. Confessions (c. 400) and The City of God (c. 413–426). Augustine shaped the practice of biblical exegesis and helped lay the foundation for much of medieval and modern Christian thought. .... This amounted to a tragedy, the single worst thing to happen to Christianity since the medieval Catholic Church. And it was more than his words or beliefs, it was his spirit, the spirit of hatefulness misogyny and degradation.
His own writings will show you that he was a sexual deviant and completely out of control. An egotistical sexual deviant that could not control himself. But he concluded that it was not his fault, that he was afflicted with the desire to be a sexual deviant from birth. That everyone had this affliction and its origin was the sin of Adam and Eve. That women were the carriers of this moral disease and the dirty and nasty act of sex with women transmitted this moral disease to all of mankind.
Why did he come to this conclusion? It all amounted to the conflict within him. It you look at the documentaries of sexual deviants, rapists, and child molesters you will see the conflict that goes on in their minds. They do not want to be that way and they hate it and even loath themselves because they cannot control it. To the point that they will say that their bodies move on their own….and they say that they both hate it and love it. Testimonies from twisted minds.
Either way, this was where he was at….could not control himself, both loving and hating it at the same time. He was a man that loved the respect from others but this deviancy kept dragging down. Sadness, self loathing, and a feeling of helplessness. So eventually he saw this desire as his enemy and learned to hate both women and sex and even saw all contact with women as the devil’s snare. And he thought it was not his fault, and he was not alone, everyone had it. And it all came from Adam and Eve…..mostly Eve the tempter of Adam.
In the end he pretty much locked himself away from women. So he came up with a doctrine where sin emerges from the female “genitalia” and wreaks havoc on the world. Sin created by sex and delivered by dirty, nasty, sinful vaginas to curse all mankind. The monsters that come from the crouch! cuckoo! cuckoo! cuckoo!
On the topic of sexual desire Augustine had this to say....“Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no ‘mode’ that responds to the decisions of the will. But when those who delight in this pleasure are not moved to it at their own will, whether they confine themselves to lawful or transgress to a unlawful pleasures; but sometimes this lust importunes them in spite of themselves, and sometimes fails them when they desire to feel it, so that though lust rages in the mind, it stirs not in the body .....Written by St. Augustine
“This diabolical excitement of the genitals…” (As St. Augustine refers to the act of sex.) …is evidence of Adam’s original sin which is now transmitted “from the mother’s womb,” tainting all human beings with sin, and leaving them incapable of choosing good over evil, or determining their own destiny.” ....Written by St. Augustine
“We must conclude, that a husband is meant to rule over his wife as the spirit rules over the flesh. and “the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh.” ....Written by St. Augustine
Referring to the Hell that awaits women, Augustine in his famous Latin sermon ''Ad Fratres in Eremitate Sermo LXIX.'' He describes how Satan seized the damned female and commanded his fellow devils to “pierce her eyes with forks as she enjoyed looking at unclean things, pierce her mouth as she used them for blasphemy, pierce her heart, as she did not harbor piety, compassion, clemency, and forgiveness there, pierce her hands with the heavy fork forged in Hell since she reached with them at things unclean and did not use them to distribute alms and help her neighbors, use the fiery forks to pierce her legs that she used to dance and meet her lovers.' Then to the gates of Hell she is carried and then '"out steps a hideous, horrible dragon, always ready to devour sinners. The dragon inserts the female into his mouth, full of stench. After chewing and digesting its prey, the dragon vomits the female into a fiery lake, where millions of other sinners wait for their trial by our Lord." .....Written by St. Augustine
St. Augustine was a deeply twisted and troubled individual and that reasoning made its way into Christianity. Original Sin is all about Augustine's hatred and fear of woman. But he was not the only one some of the ECF’s thought if a man was in love with his wife he was committing adultery against God.
So the doctrine of Original Sin is false and a lie. There is a faction in Christianity that like to belittle Christians and get them to believe that they have no hope of being good and will succumb to evil.....Case in point….
as it is written, “THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE; Romans 3:10 How many times have you heard this scripture quoted? Well the words righteous and righteousness occurs over 400 times in the scriptures and most of time it is referring to the righteous or that our goal should be righteousness. So if they focus on this one negative scripture, what is their intent? To lead people astray.
The intent is to promote the belief that we cannot be righteous so there is no use trying. The inevitably of a sinful life is so certain that we can only rely on the perpetual forgiveness of Grace to be saved from Hell. Which in function gives the green light for sinning. No personal responsibility. Perpetual forgiveness. Ergo the belief that Grace is a license to sin.
This is where the OSAS and Universalism groups get their guidance and motivation from. Believing you can live a life of sin and still go to Heaven.
John Calvin and his followers followed this convoluted train of thought and reasoned that babies and children that die before they are saved go to Hell. The concept of the Robot Christian and Theatrical Reality comes from the Calvinists. That predestination is more than an ability of Yahweh but that He turns all of reality into a pre-orchestrated play. Where nothing we do….good or bad….is our decision but is under the control of Yahweh.
