Depravity of nature, original sin, are unsympathetic things to his ear.
Away with everything supernatural and miraculous, obedience to faith, original sin, redemption: all this sounds strange to the modern man.
The stain of original sin is the privation of original justice (i.
These are only indirectly the consequences of original sin, the direct punishment, from which they follow, being the infirmity and corruption of nature produced by original sin.
Thus, children and young people through no fault of their own are negatively imprudent, though of course their lack of prudence may be traced back to original sin.
Hypersexuality and abnormal sexuality are not in themselves sinful, but are manifestations of that inordinate concupiscence that is the effect of original sin and, if yielded to, becomes the cause of actual sin.
It indulges in no spirit of bigotry, consigns no man or woman to endless torment, never talks of total depravity or original sin.
We are under no more moral and religious obligation whatever to preach the doctrines of original sin, the fall of man, endless punishment, infant damnation, &c.
Chateaubriand arrayed arguments in support of orthodox dogmas, original sin, primitive degeneration, and the rest; but the appeal of the book did not lie in its logic, it lay in the appreciation of Christianity from a new point of view.
There was, moreover, the doctrine of original sin, an insuperable obstacle to the moral amelioration of the race by any gradual process of development.
This text, we know, is the proof-text of original sin, and is considered by many commentators as teaching that man’s nature is wholly corrupt.
The doctrine of the Church of England concerning original sin and free will is in its ninth and tenth articles, and declares that,— “Original sin is .
St. Augustine, more especially, lengthily and emphatically insists upon the general belief of the Pagans in original sin, when he writes against Pelage.
However, we shall bring forth other testimonies, which will not leave, in the mind of the reader, any doubt that the Pagans generally believed in original sin.
Another doctrine of Judaism, which was greatly underrated by medieval scholars, and which has been emphasized in modern times only in contrast to the Christian theory of original sin, is that man was created in the image of God.
This prepared for the dismal church doctrine of original sin, the basis of Paul's teachings, which demanded a blood atonement for curse-laden humanity, and found it after the pagan pattern in the vicarious sacrifice of a dying god.
The Christian view of universal guilt as a consequence of Adam's sin, the dogma of original sin, is actually a relapse from the Jewish stage to the heathen doctrine from which the Jewish religion freed itself.
One cannot, however, discern the least indication of belief in original sin, either as inherent in the human race or inherited by them.
We cannot deny that these two books contain much that is near the Paulinian view of original sin.
I humbly pray thee, most gracious Mother, obtain for me the grace to overcome the bitter results of original sin.
If, then, Mary's sinlessness is an exception, the general rule remains in force, and all other human beings enter this world in the state of original sin.
The first, the definition of Original Sin, seems to reject strongly that Pelagianism or Semi-Pelagianism which had marked the later Scholasticism which Luther had been taught in the Erfurt convent.
Again, while the Augustinian doctrine of the Fall seems to be taught, it is added that by Original Sin liberum arbitrium is minime extinctum viribus licet attenuatum, which is Semi-Pelagian.
You have found a side of democracy now dangerously neglected wisely asserted in Original Sin; all right.
In short, we found that the only logical negation of oligarchy was in the affirmation of original sin.
If you were a philosopher you would call it, as I do, the doctrine of original sin.
If we wish to pull down the prosperous oppressor we cannot do it with the new doctrine of human perfectibility; we can do it with the old doctrine of Original Sin.
Generally, however, it is original sin that is advanced as the cause of suffering.
On the contrary, does not his silence manifestly indicate that he looked upon this doctrine, which was a received maxim of the Jewish Church, as the true explanation of original sin?
St. Paul states his doctrine of original sin as if it were a commonplace which he could {193} assume and argue from.
His language indeed here, and in chapter vii, would be satisfied by a very moderate doctrine of the effects of original sin, that is, of the transmitted effect of sin, considered apart from its repetition.
The conflict, I say, is continually {81} being taken back into the region of original sin or the original fall.
Anabaptists held Arian and Socinian opinions which were rife in Switzerland, Italy and Poland, condemning also their views on original sin (viii.
Augustine denied that traducianism was necessarily connected with the doctrine of original sin, and to the end of his life was unable to decide for or against it.
The missionary, Joseph Francois Lafitau, suspected a psychological reason, assuming the custom to be a dim recollection of original sin, the isolation and fast types of repentance.
To the statement that it follows logically from the dogma of original sin, they reply that logic is out of place in such questions.
The strength, however, and the weakness of Edwards as a moralist are best illustrated from the two treatises on the Religious Affections and on Original Sin.
If they did they would have to give up original sin, the scheme of the atonement, and the consolation of eternal fire.
But the moral order of the world, or the purification of the first man, cannot be brought about till the consequences of original sin, the confusion of good and evil, are obliterated and removed.
Solomon Bonfed examined somewhat minutely the dogmas of the Incarnation, Original Sin, and Transubstantiation, showing them to be irrational and untenable.
His applications of Biblical texts to the doctrines of the Trinity, Original Sin, Redemption, and the Lord's Supper, appear almost droll in Hebrew.
The extravagances of the Kabbala demonstrated in his eyes the doctrines of the Trinity, the Incarnation, Original Sin, the Fall of the Angels, Purgatory, and Eternal Punishment.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "original sin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
