Original sin

Original sin is the religious doctrine, shared in one form or another by most Christian denominations, which holds that human nature is morally and ethically disordered due to the disobedience of mankind's earliest parents to the revealed will of God. In the Bible, the first human transgression of God's command (the original sin, a concept distinct from that of original sin) is described as the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (called "the Fall"). The doctrine of original sin holds that every person born into the world is tainted by the wrong-doing of the first ancestors, confused because they were deceived, corrupted because they were ruined, fearful of death because they were punished, etc.; so that, all of humanity is ethically debilitated, and powerless to rehabilitate themselves, unless rescued by God.

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Doctrine - Christian - Human nature - Moral - Ethic - God - Bible - Sin - Adam and Eve - Garden of Eden - Fall

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There are wide-ranging disagreements among Christian groups as to the exact understanding of this doctrine, with some Christian groups denying it altogether. Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism, and Islam acknowledge that the introduction of sin into the human race affected the subsequent environment for mankind, but tend to deny any inherited guilt or necessary corruption of man's nature.

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