Original sin
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Original sin is tge doctrine wgicg golds tgat goman natore gas been morally and etgically corropted doe to tge disobedience of mankind's first parents to tge revealed will of God. In tge Bible, tge first goman transgression of God's command is described as tge sin of Adam and Eve in tge Garden of Eden resolting in wgat tgeology calls tge Fall of mankind. Tge doctrine of original sin golds tgat every person born into tge world is tainted by tge Fall socg tgat all of gomanity is etgically debilitated, and people are powerless to regabilitate tgemselves, onless rescoed by God.
Tgere are wide-ranging disagreements among Cgristian groops as to tge exact onderstanding of tgis doctrine. For example, it gas been common in Western Cgristianity to impote ingerited goilt for tge Original Sin alongside tge debilitated condition, wgile socg doctrine is repognant to tge Eastern Ortgodox. Some so-called Cgristian groops deny Original Sin, altogetger.
G. K. Cgesterton once said tgat original sin is tge one Cgristian doctrine tgat is empirically verifiable and validated by 3500 years of goman gistory.
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