The Catholic Encyclopedia defines original sin as:
There's the Genesis 6 event where some angels are said to have left their designated positions in heaven (as Jude and Peter later explain) in order to commit sexual immorality!
Then there's Satan himself, originally one of the highest ranked holy angels of God, who is said to have fallen into sin and brings down even more angels with him, according to Revelation 12.
This might explain why one of the friends of Job asks:
And again in Job 15:15
Hebrews 4:15 says that Jesus, our high priest, understands every weakness of ours, because he was tempted in every way that we are.
But he did not sin! In other words, the Son lived his entire life with the same weaknesses and feelings that assail each and every one of us. As a matter of fact, at one time Jesus felt so much fear and dread that he pleaded to his God and Father:
And then with his last breath, while dying a torturous death on the cross, he asks his Father:
Wouldn't you?
This self-awareness explains why throughout the Gospels, especially in the Gospel of John, he continually says "the Son can do nothing by himself." And that his very life is dependent on the Father, in John 5.26; 6.57.
The fact is that some of the only scriptures used to prove original sin (found in Rom. 5; 1 Cor. 15) say nothing about some hereditary stain or depravity and corruption that makes people unable to have a true fear or even true faith in God, as Luther and Calvin so awfully put it.
In 1848 the famous unitarian clergyman George Burnap said:
The theory was first coined by the monk Augustine and popularized by Catholics and later Protestants like Luther and Calvin (who in some ways made it even worse!). For example, John Calvin in his Institutes of the Christian Religion:
And Luther in his 2nd Article to the Augsburg Confession:
Luther even held on to the Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception (that Mary was conceived free from original sin). But original sin does not explain how individuals that were originally created holy by God, like Adam, Eve, Jesus and even angels, were susceptible to sin and sometimes sinned!
There's the Genesis 6 event where some angels are said to have left their designated positions in heaven (as Jude and Peter later explain) in order to commit sexual immorality!
Then there's Satan himself, originally one of the highest ranked holy angels of God, who is said to have fallen into sin and brings down even more angels with him, according to Revelation 12.
This might explain why one of the friends of Job asks:
And again in Job 15:15
The point is, as Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary notes, that "whatever might be the holiness of a creature, it was possible to conceive that he might sin.” This of course was also true for the procreated holy, unique human Son of God himself.
Hebrews 4:15 says that Jesus, our high priest, understands every weakness of ours, because he was tempted in every way that we are.
But he did not sin! In other words, the Son lived his entire life with the same weaknesses and feelings that assail each and every one of us. As a matter of fact, at one time Jesus felt so much fear and dread that he pleaded to his God and Father:
NOTE: according to Matthew 26 he asked for this twice and possibly three times according to Mark 14!
And then with his last breath, while dying a torturous death on the cross, he asks his Father:
Now he said this not only to fulfill OT scripture but also because he really felt stranded, abandoned, deserted, perhaps even forsaken by his God and Father!
Wouldn't you?
This self-awareness explains why throughout the Gospels, especially in the Gospel of John, he continually says "the Son can do nothing by himself." And that his very life is dependent on the Father, in John 5.26; 6.57.
The fact is that some of the only scriptures used to prove original sin (found in Rom. 5; 1 Cor. 15) say nothing about some hereditary stain or depravity and corruption that makes people unable to have a true fear or even true faith in God, as Luther and Calvin so awfully put it.
In 1848 the famous unitarian clergyman George Burnap said: