Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.
I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
'Original Sin' is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marvel retreats we have a couple times a year. We have all these ideas floating around for a bit before we figure out how to align them.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
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.
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.
There's no such thing as an original sin.