BreadofLife said:
Wrong.
Original Sin is a stain we are
ALL marked with. If it
weren’t – Christ
wouldn’t have had to come down and sacrifice His very
self. The
evidence of this our
flawed condition as humans - and
death.
Rom. 5:12-21 sums this up
Therefore, just as through one person sin entered the world, and through sin, death, AND THUS DEATH CAME TO ALL, INASMUCH AS ALL SINNED— for up to the time of the law, sin was in the world, though sin is not accounted when there is no law.
BUT DEATH REIGNED FROM ADAM TO MOSES, EVEN OVER THOSE WHO DID NOT SIN AFTER THE PATTERN OF THE TRESPASS OF ADAM, WHO IS THE TYPE OF THE ONE WHO WAS TO COME.
Grace and Life through Christ.
But the gift is not like the transgression. For if by that one person’s transgression the many died, how much more did the grace of God and the gracious gift of the one person Jesus Christ overflow for the many.
And the gift is not like the result of the one person’s sinning. For after one sin there was the judgment that brought condemnation; but the gift, after many transgressions, brought acquittal.
For if, by the transgression of one person, death came to reign through that one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of justification come to reign in life through the one person Jesus Christ.
In conclusion, JUST AS THROUGH ONE TRANSGRESSION CONDEMNATION CAME UPON ALL, so through one righteous act acquittal and life came to all.
For just as through the disobedience of one person the many were made sinners, so through the obedience of one the many will be made righteous.
The law entered in so that transgression might increase but, where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through justification for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Here,
Paul explains Original Sin better than
anybody else.
ALL were
condemed because of Adam's sin.
The man made idea of original sin is usually attributed to Augustine and made more popular by men like John Calvin. From Wikipedia "
Augustine's formulation of original sin after 412 CE was popular among Protestant reformers, such as Martin Luther and John Calvin, who equated original sin with concupiscence (or "hurtful desire"), affirming that it persisted even after baptism and completely destroyed freedom to do good. Before 412 CE, Augustine said that free will was weakened but not destroyed by original sin.[2] But after 412 CE this changed to a loss of free will except to sin"
Original sin was never taught by Christ, nor His Apostles nor any Bible prophet.
Romans 5 refutes original sin:
Romans 5:12 "
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:"
"have sinned" shows one's personal culpability in sinning and not how was passively born a sinner against his will.
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Romans 5:14 "
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come."
If everyone was born having passively inherited Adam's sin, then all would be guilty of the same sin. Yet verse 14 speaks of those whom death reigned over yet they committed transgressions different from Adam. Hence they died as a result of their own sinning and not as a result of inheriting sin from Adam. If they died as a result of Adam's sin, then there would be no difference made between Adam's sin and their sin.
There would have been no need for Paul to spend the first three cahpters of Romans proving both Jew and Gentile are sinners and quoting many verses to prove they were if all were born dead having inherited Adam's sin. Yet nowhere in the frist three chapters of Romans where Paul concludes all have sinned does Paul even mention the idea of original sin. There would not be a more apt context than Romans chapters 1-3 for Paul to declare all are sinners for having inherited Adam's sin. Yet Paul shows in those chapters that sin is a transgression (1 John 3:4) men choose to commit not something passively inherited against their will.
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Romans 5:19 "
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous."
Paul does NOT say man were made sinners UNCONDITONALLY by Adam's transgression as he did NOT say many shall be UNCONDTIONALLY made righteous by Christ's perfect obedience. Calvinists read the idea of UNCONDITIONALLY made sinners into the verse.
1) Rom 5:19 is a if - then type statement. IF it is true that all are UNCONDITIONALLY made sinners by Adam's transgression, THEN it is equally true that same many will have UNCONDITONALLY inherited Christ's righteousness and you have created Universalism.
2) men are made sinners as Adam was made a sinner. Adam chose to sin and transgress God's law. Likewise, men today choose to transgress God's law (1 John 3:4) therefore
conditionally made sinners for having chosen to sin (Romans 5:12). Men are
conditionally made righteous for having chose to obey (Romans 6:16 - "
obedience unto righteousness"). There is no example in the Bible of one declared righteous by God without first
conditionally obeying God's righteous commands.
Imaaaagine. Back to reality 
