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,...

the humanity-wide condition of original sin is not theologically controversial in the Christian tradition. It is an assumption of all Christians that Christ is without sin, although some theologians have believed Christ was in some sense “fallen” in his human nature yet never committed sin. There is not space to enter into that debate here, but suffice it to say a person with a fallen human nature would already be in a morally precarious state, one that would seem to disbar that person from being

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