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,...

Wesley’s doctrine of original sin thus maintained emphases on the corrupt nature of humanity and the pervasiveness of sin, but he excluded the idea that the transfer of original sin included the transfer of guilt. No one will receive eternal damnation because of Adam’s guilt. We might say that this admixture of Western and Eastern thought in Wesley’s theology of original sin led him away from the notion that original sin was a “thing” humans inherited. Indeed, while Randy Maddox sketches Wesley’s

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