Original Sin? (Part 1)

   St. Augustine (354-430 A. D.) is largely credited with framing the concept of original sin.  I have asked many, What is the original sin?  The answers vary, with most saying “she ate the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” Some even said  Eve sinned before she partook of the fruit. Some say it was a sexual sin because of their shame.  Some say Eve committed the original sin, then she deceived Adam.  Let’s see what the Scriptures reveal.

   At the end of each of the first six days of creation God pronounced, “Behold, it was very good.”  Everything was perfect in every respect.  “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the hosts of them.  And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had make; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had make.”

“And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”  The man that God had created on the sixth day “after our likeness,” patterned after them, the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.  “So God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”  This is in no way indicating, as some believe that God is somehow male and female, but that God made both Adam and Eve in the image of God after their likeness, ...