Episode 191 - The Fall - Part 1

Show NotesBooks ReferencedGK Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908), Chapter 2 (“The Maniac”): “Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.”Reinhold Niebuhr Man’s Nature and His Communities (1965) “The doctrine of original sin is the only empirically verifiable doctrine of the Christian faith” Links ReferencedRoman Catholic Catechism - "All men are implicated in Adam’s sin, as St. Paul affirms, since sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, so death spread to all men because all men sinned" https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_one/article_1/paragraph_7_the_fall.htmlHeidelberg Catechism (1563) — Lord’s Day 2–3, Q&A 5–8. Q7: "the depravity of human nature proceeds from the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise; our nature is become so corrupt that we are all conceived and born in sin." https://heritagereformedgr.org/our-beliefs/heidelberg-catechism/lords-day-3/The Westminster Confession, 1647, Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit… By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body...the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation....sin is a transgression of the righteous law of God, bringing guilt, God’s wrath, the curse of the law, and death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal. https://www.apuritansmind.com/westminster-standards/chapter-6/1689 London Baptist Confession — Chapter 6 Is almost identical to the Westminster Confession. The New City Catechism Q16 (“What is sin?”): "Sin is rejecting or ignoring God in the world he created, rebelling against him by living without reference to him, not being or doing what he requires in his law — resulting in our death and the disintegration of all creation." https://newcitycatechism.com/new-city-catechism/#16Augustines Hierarchy of Being - Turning our desires and worship to lesser things - A concise summary of Augustine's thought can be found here - Robert Park's lecture on Augustine and Plotinus (October 1, 1998) https://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/wphil/lectures/wphil_theme06.htmScriptures ReferencedGenesis 3; Jeremiah 2:12,13; Romans 3-6