Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.
Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.
I believe that the writers of Genesis had detected the inherent selfishness in human nature that I propose is in our genes, and invented the myth of original sin to account for it. It's an image. I am not acting as an exegete - I don't interpret scripture.
There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.
It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.
There's no such thing as an original sin.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.