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Original sin is the sin which corrupts our nature and gives us the tendency to sin. Actual sins are the sins we commit every day before we are saved, such as lying, swearing, stealing. [51] It further categorizes sin as being (1) "sin proper" and (2) "involuntary transgression of a divine law, known or unknown" (called infirmities).
God in Deism, as used in the United States Declaration of Independence; Nature god, or nature deity, a deity in charge of forces of nature; Nature's God, a 1991 book by Robert Anton Wilson in The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles trilogy; Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic, a 2014 book by Matthew Stewart
Christian hamartiology describes sin as an act of offense against God by despising his persons and Christian biblical law, and by injuring others. [11] In Christian views it is an evil human act, which violates the rational nature of man as well as God's nature and his eternal law.
The argument goes that the free will defense can only justify the presence of moral evil in light of an omnibenevolent god, and that natural evil remains unaccounted for. Hence, some atheists argue that the existence of natural evil challenges belief in the existence, omnibenevolence, or omnipotence of God or any deity. [4]
In the Pelagian view, by corollary, sin was not an inevitable result of fallen human nature, but instead came about by free choice [44] and bad habits; through repeated sinning, a person could corrupt their own nature and enslave themself to sin. Pelagius believed that God had given man the Old Testament and Mosaic Law in order to counter these ...
Depiction of the sin of Adam and Eve (The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens). Original sin (Latin: peccatum originale) in Christian theology refers to the condition of sinfulness that all humans share, which is inherited from Adam and Eve due to the Fall, involving the loss of original righteousness and the distortion of the Image of God. [1]
Monophysitism (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ f ɪ s aɪ t ɪ z əm / mə-NOF-ih-seye-tih-zəm [1]) or monophysism (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ f ɪ z ɪ z əm / mə-NOF-ih-zih-zəm; from Greek μόνος monos, "solitary" [2] and φύσις physis, "nature") is a Christological doctrine that states that there was only one nature—the divine—in the person of Jesus Christ, who was the incarnated Word. [3]
Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, [being] so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works-righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and ...