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Full Idea
No one can say what was humankind's original sin, and no one understands how the suffering of Christ can redeem it.
Gist of Idea
What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it?
Source
John Gray (Straw Dogs [2002], 4.1)
Book Ref
Gray,John: 'Straw Dogs' [Granta 2002], p.119
A Reaction
This nicely articulates a problem that has half bothered me, but I have never put into words. I always assumed Eve committed the sin, and Adam cops the blame for not controlling his woman. Dying for our sins has always puzzled me.
| 23055 | Christians introduced the idea that a religion needs a creed [Gray] |
| 23056 | Judaism only became monotheistic around 550 BCE [Gray] |
| 23057 | Gnosticism has a supreme creator God, giving way to a possibly hostile Demiurge [Gray] |
| 23058 | Buddhism has no divinity or souls, and the aim is to lose the illusion of a self [Gray] |
| 23061 | Free atheism should start by questioning its faith in humanity [Gray] |
| 9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
| 9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
| 9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
| 9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
| 9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
| 9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |
| 9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |