Original Sin
From one man's fall, a wound passed to every child of Adam
Original sin names the fallen condition humanity is held to inherit from Adam's first transgression, drawn especially from Romans 5 and shaped by Augustine against Pelagius. The traditions differ on its content: the Western, Augustinian view stresses inherited guilt, while the Eastern tradition emphasizes inherited mortality and corruption rather than guilt. All agree humanity needs God's grace; they describe the inheritance differently.
How it traveled
- RomansCorinth · 67explains
- The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the RomansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Homilies of St. John ChrysostomConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- Homilies on First CorinthiansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407applies
- The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and PhilemonConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- Against the PelagiansBethlehem · 420explains
- The Letters of St. JeromeBethlehem · 420explains
- A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of InfantsHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original SinHippo Regius · 430explains
- On Marriage and ConcupiscenceHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise Against Two Letters of the PelagiansHippo Regius · 430explains
- City of GodHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on the Soul and its OriginHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on Nature and GraceHippo Regius · 430explains
- Expositions on the Book of PsalmsHippo Regius · 430explains
- The EnchiridionHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in RighteousnessHippo Regius · 430explains
- Letters of St. AugustinHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on the Predestination of the SaintsHippo Regius · 430explains
- Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. JohnHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on the Spirit and the LetterHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on Rebuke and GraceHippo Regius · 430explains
- The ConfessionsHippo Regius · 430explains
- Reply to Faustus the ManichæanHippo Regius · 430explains
- Anselm's Cur Deus HomoCanterbury · 1109explains
- Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)Paris · 1274explains
- Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)Paris · 1274explains
- Discussion: Third PartWittenberg · 1546explains
- Commentary on GalatiansWittenberg · 1546explains
- Discussion: Second PartWittenberg · 1546explains
- Discussion: First PartWittenberg · 1546explains
- Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the GospelGeneva · 1564explains
- Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from ItGeneva · 1564explains
- The great christian doctrine of original sin defendedNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvationNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- Seventeen Occasional SermonsNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- a careful and strict inquiry into the prevailing notions of the freedom of willNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- Men Naturally God's EnemiesNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three PartsNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- A History of the Work of RedemptionNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
Key passages(20)
A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants · Augustine of Hippo
Chapter 15 [XII.]—The One Sin Common to All Men. But observe more attentively what he says, that “through the offence of one, many are dead.” For why should it be on account of the sin of one, and no
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Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel · John Calvin
8. But lest the thing itself of which we speak be unknown or doubtful, it will be proper to define original sin. (Calvin, in Conc. Trident. 1, Dec. Sess. 5). I have no intention, however, to discuss a
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On Marriage and Concupiscence · Augustine of Hippo
Chapter 58.—Adam’s Sin is Derived from Him to Every One Who is Born Even of Regenerate Parents; The Example of the Olive Tree and the Wild Olive. But this sin, which changed man for the worse in para
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The great christian doctrine of original sin defended · Jonathan Edwards
If sin be such a thing as Dr. T. himself represents it, p. 69. “a thing of an odious and destructive nature, the corruption and ruin of our nature, and infinitely hateful to God;” then such a propensi
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The great christian doctrine of original sin defended · Jonathan Edwards
That everyone of mankind, at least such as are capable of acting as moral agents, are guilty of sin, (not now taking it for granted that they come guilty into the world,) is most clearly and abundantl
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The great christian doctrine of original sin defended · Jonathan Edwards
Before I leave this passage (Rom. iii. 9-24.) it may be proper to observe, that it not only is a most clear and full testimony to the native depravity of mankind, but also plainly declares that natura
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A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · Augustine of Hippo
Chapter 4 [IV.]—Pelagians and Manicheans on the Praise of the Creature. These things being so, what advantage is it to new heretics, enemies of the cross of Christ and opposers of divine grace, that
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A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants · Augustine of Hippo
Chapter 11.—The Ancients Assumed Original Sin. You see with what confidence this great man expresses himself after the ancient and undoubted rule of faith. In advancing such very certain statements,
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Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel · John Calvin
5. As Adam’s spiritual life would have consisted in remaining united and bound to his Maker, so estrangement from him was the death of his soul. Nor is it strange that he who perverted the whole order
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Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel · John Calvin
10. Let us have done, then, with those who dare to inscribe the name of God on their vices, because we say that men are born vicious. The divine workmanship, which they ought to look for in the nature
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The Canons of the Synods of Sardica, Carthage, Constantinople, and Carthage Under St. Cyprian, Which Canons Were Received by the Council in Trullo and Ratified by II. Nice · The Ecumenical Councils
Here begins Canon CIX. of the Latin text. Canon CIX. (Greek cxij. continued.) That Adam was not created by God subject to death. That whosoever says that Adam, the first man, was created mortal, so
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The Enchiridion · Augustine of Hippo
Chapter 26.—Through Adam’s Sin His Whole Posterity Were Corrupted, and Were Born Under the Penalty of Death, Which He Had Incurred. Thence, after his sin, he was driven into exile, and by his sin the
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The great christian doctrine of original sin defended · Jonathan Edwards
THE EVIDENCE OF ORIGINAL SIN FROM WHAT APPEARS IN FACT OF THE SINFULNESS OF MANKIND. All mankind constantly, in all ages, without fail in any one instance, run into that moral evil, which is in effec
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The great christian doctrine of original sin defended · Jonathan Edwards
If there are any in the world—though but lately become capable of acting for themselves, as subjects of God’s law—who are perfectly free from sin; such are most likely to be found among the children o
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The great christian doctrine of original sin defended · Jonathan Edwards
2. There has been given to the world an example of virtue, which, were it not for a dreadful depravity of nature, would have influence on them who live under the gospel, far beyond all other examples;
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The great christian doctrine of original sin defended · Jonathan Edwards
Thus a propensity, attending the present nature or natural state of mankind, eternally to ruin themselves by sin, may certainly be inferred from apparent and acknowledged fact.—And I would now observe
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The great christian doctrine of original sin defended · Jonathan Edwards
OBSERVATIONS ON OTHER PARTS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, CHIEFLY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THAT PROVE THE DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN. Original depravity may well be argued, from wickedness being often spoken of
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The great christian doctrine of original sin defended · Jonathan Edwards
Now what account can be given of these things, on Dr. T.’s scheme? How strange is it, that we should have such descriptions, all over the Bible, of man, and the sons of men! Why should man be so conti
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The great christian doctrine of original sin defended · Jonathan Edwards
Very remarkable is that place, Job xv. 14-16.“What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the hea
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The great christian doctrine of original sin defended · Jonathan Edwards
In which she tells AEneas, that not a goddess was his mother, nor Anchises his father; but that he had been brought forth by a horrid rocky mountain, and nursed at the dugs of tigers, to represent the
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