55 Quotes About Original-sin

It's always women who eat sins, since it was Eve who first ate a sin: the Forbidden Fruit.

A company literally named after the birth of evil in mankind, that celebrates it, the moment when Eve ate the forbidden fruit.

when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, ofhell.

The trouble with me is, Treece thought, that I'm a liberal humanist who believes in original sin. I think of man as a noble creature who has only to extend himself to the full range of his powers to be civilized and good; yet his performance by and large has been intrinsically evil and could be more so as the extension continues.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

Before eating from the tree of knowledge, Adam and Eve had no notion of Good and evil.They were kicked out of paradise, because the supposed Creator was unable to reason that giving someone free will to choose between two things while having no notion of either, would be the Himalaya of nonsense.

We are not as some people like to assume nowadays 'just being real' by embracing passively the sinful, fallen versions of ourselves. Quite the opposite really: our true selves were, from the beginning, intended to resemble the example which was then set by Christ Jesus; hence God wants to restore us to how we would have been had original sin never once befell.

And sincerely we're seeingWhen 'sinternally' seekingIn a manner of speakingThere, in the eve of EdenWreaked a sea that was leakingTo where we were once but merely:Like bodies paralyzed- (B)Or(ed) minds buried alive -In a loud room soundproofFallen short of the gory abroad beforeThe Lord God let us go beyond our facade

Sin, when in the body, cannot not stay put. It's not a guest that stays in one room, making sure not to disturb the others. It is a tenant that lives in everything and goes everywhere. It can bleed into every part, choking out anything holy. The glass shattered and broke when it moved in. Adam and Eve, God's first image-bearers, made to love and reflect God in creation, had now become the world's first sinners.