Tag: Original Sin

• Original Sin goes into the Bin (ii)

  At first sight, Eve and Adam sampling the fruit of a tree in the Garden of Eden might seem to be no big deal. There should have been, however, a sudden ferocious burst of lightning and an ear-splitting drum roll of thunder, to mark the fact that the recently made, ‘perfectly’ good Earth, had suddenly […]

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  2nd Apr 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Religion

  Adam & Eve, Augustine, Genesis, God, Limbo, Original Sin, Sex

• Original Sin goes into the Bin (i)

  With regard to the first 11 chapters of Genesis, I’m inclined to agree with Professor John J. Collins of Yale Divinity School, that “more than most stories, these chapters have been overlaid with theological interpretations that have little basis in the Hebrew text”. (*) This certainly applies, in my view, to the concept of “original […]

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  30th Mar 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Religion

  Adam & Eve, Augustine, Bishop Shelby Spong, Edmund Burke, Genesis, God, Original Sin, Pope Pius X, Serpent

• Two more things Genesis 2/3 doesn’t say …

  This is my second post about the 2nd section of Genesis which runs from 2:4b to 3:24, and which manages to be a colourful and entertaining myth while purportedly dealing with matters of life and death. There are many commentators who tell us what this section of Genesis is saying but, by way of difference, […]

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  5th May 2021

  Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Adam & Eve, Genesis, God, Mysogyny, Myth, Original Sin