{"id":8220,"date":"2023-08-08T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8220"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:47","slug":"original-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8220","title":{"rendered":"ORIGINAL SIN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wrote yesterday how my antennae now go up when I hear Bible teachers and preachers engage in proof-texting. If someone needs to hop all over the Bible and cherry pick verses, plucking them out of context, in order to establish a doctrine, there&#8217;s reason to be highly suspicious of the doctrine.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which brings me to the doctrine of &#8220;Original Sin&#8221;. I don&#8217;t have a firmly established belief about Original Sin, but I can see why it would be important to give it some thought. I&#8217;ve watched a couple of YouTube videos on the subject and I have questions:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Is there an agreed upon definition? Or is this another one of those theological terms that means different things to different people?<\/li>\n\n\n<li>How is Original Sin different from simply believing people are sinful?<\/li>\n\n\n<li>How long has the doctrine been around? Where did it originate?<\/li>\n\n\n<li>What are the ramifications of the doctrine? Of its opposition?<\/li>\n\n\n<li>What are the alternatives to Original Sin?<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Which denominations\/sects are on which side of the question?<\/li>\n\n\n<li>MOST IMPORTANTLY: What Bible passages are used to establish the veracity of the doctrine? What Bible verses support the opposition&#8217;s position?<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, I am way past just asking what the past and current leaders within my own faith tradition have tended to believe &#8211; and then just accepting that position on their authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t have any answers yet. Just my questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote yesterday how my antennae now go up when I hear Bible teachers and preachers engage in proof-texting. If someone needs to hop all over the Bible and cherry pick verses, plucking them out of context, in order to establish a doctrine, there&#8217;s reason to be highly suspicious of the doctrine. Which brings me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8221,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220\/revisions\/8221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}