Original Sin and the Fall: Five Views (Biblia.com)

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Throughout the church’s history, Christians have largely agreed that God’s good creation of humanity was marred by humanity’s sinful rebellion, resulting in our separation from God and requiring divine intervention in the saving work of Christ. But Christians have disagreed over many particular questions surrounding humanity’s fall, including the extent of original sin, the nature of the fall,...

in doing so he repeatedly calls each ingredient “good” (Gen 1:10, 12, 18, 21, 25), even “very good” (Gen 1:31). By implication the original created order was free from sin. Sometimes it is suggested that good (tov) in Genesis 1 is merely aesthetic, not moral.16 In my view, original creation is both aesthetically and morally good, especially in light of God’s revealed character as the thrice Holy One (Is 6:1–7). God’s only stipulation to Adam and Eve was not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of

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