This is also the passage in Paul’s writings upon which Augustine, and many after him, called when they spoke of “original sin.” Through some involved reasoning, they came to the conclusion that such sin was born into every human being at the time of the (sinful) sex act by which that individual was procreated. Such a view of the act of human procreation has more to do with medieval problems relative to human sexuality than it does with Paul; but however one may want to understand its origin, there