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Does the Bible teach Original Sin?

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Yeshua1

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The Anabaptists, who were the forerunners of the Baptist movement, taught that we inherited the inclination toward sin from Adam, but not Adam's guilt:
Paul very clear that all are either in the guilt and judgement of Adam, or under salvation and grace of Jesus, Federal Headship!
 

Humble Disciple

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Paul very clear that all are either in the guilt and judgement of Adam, or under salvation and grace of Jesus, Federal Headship!

While death and sin entered the world through Adam's sin, Adam was not created as naturally immortal. If Adam had never sinned, he would still have needed to continue eating from the tree of life to live forever.

Augustine's doctrine on original sin may have had more to do with his prior Manichaeism than with what scripture and the previous church fathers actually taught.

While we indeed need God's grace to avoid sin and receive the forgiveness of sin, that doesn't mean we inherited the guilt of Adam's sin.

The Anabaptists, who were the forerunners of the Baptist movement, taught that we inherited the inclination toward sin from Adam, but not Adam's guilt
 

Humble Disciple

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It's kind of sad when people who claim to be Baptists are ignorant of their own history and have more in common with the persecutors and killers of the Anabaptists than with what the Anabaptists actually taught.
 

Yeshua1

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It's kind of sad when people who claim to be Baptists are ignorant of their own history and have more in common with the persecutors and killers of the Anabaptists than with what the Anabaptists actually taught.
I am FAR most into what scriptures say on this issue, not what any man stated who was not inspired!
 

Marooncat79

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It's kind of sad when people who claim to be Baptists are ignorant of their own history and have more in common with the persecutors and killers of the Anabaptists than with what the Anabaptists actually taught.[/

many would reject that modern Baptists lineage comes through the Anabaptists
 

Humble Disciple

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Eastern Orthodox Christians have never taught the Augustian doctrine of original sin, and many Eastern Orthodox Christians don't regard Augustine as a saint because of it. They instead refer to him as "Blessed Augustine," but not Saint Augustine.

The Eastern Church never subscribed to Augustine of Hippo's notions of original sin and hereditary guilt. The Church does not interpret "original sin" as having anything to do with transmitted guilt but with transmitted mortality. Because Adam sinned, all humanity shares not in his guilt but in the same punishment.[72]

The Eastern Churches accept the teachings of John Cassian, as do Catholic Churches eastern and western,[40] in rejecting the doctrine of total depravity, by teaching that human nature is "fallen", that is, depraved, but not totally. Augustine Casiday states that Cassian "baldly asserts that God's grace, not human free will, is responsible for 'everything which pertains to salvation' – even faith".[41] Cassian points out that people still have moral freedom and one has the option to choose to follow God.
Original sin - Wikipedia
 

Humble Disciple

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It's kind of strange when Baptists, who reject the Catholic doctrine of baptismal regeneration, insist upon the Catholic doctrine of original sin on which it hinges.
 

Yeshua1

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It's kind of strange when Baptists, who reject the Catholic doctrine of baptismal regeneration, insist upon the Catholic doctrine of original sin on which it hinges.
Paul based his entire compare and contrast between firest and second Adam on this!
 

Yeshua1

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Eastern Orthodox Christians have never taught the Augustian doctrine of original sin, and many Eastern Orthodox Christians don't regard Augustine as a saint because of it. They instead refer to him as "Blessed Augustine," but not Saint Augustine.
They also have a faulty Gospel, as does Rome!
 

37818

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Eastern Orthodox Christians and Jews have always maintained that, while we inherited the inclination toward sin from Adam, we did not inherit the guilt of Adam's sin, which would go against the plain meaning of scripture.
Biblical "original sin" is not being guilty for Adam's guilt. (Deuteronomy 24:16)
 

JonC

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So are you denying that in Adam, all sin?
Rather than this line of questioning, perhaps it would help if you provided @Humble Disciple the verse stating that all sinned in Adam. That way he could address the actual text of Scripture rather than what would otherwise be opinion.

(Just a suggestion - but I've found dealing with the text of Scripture best when debating the Christian faith).

While it does not actually state all sinned in Adam, Romans 5:19 may be a good discussion as well.
 

Yeshua1

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We all have the nature to sin. However until we do we are innocent
MB
So when children willing sin, do what they want, not accountable to God?
When babies act and are selfish, not accountable to God?
 

Iconoclast

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So are you denying that in Adam, all sin?

It is no surprise that those who do not grasp the grace of God often have flawed and defective views of the fall into sin and death.
This is one of the most basic errors in theology, rivaled closely by a false view of scripture, or deity.
No surprise,drifting from Finney to gnostics, to open theists.
 
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