Original sin

It wasn't published until after he died in 1765.

His book, Original Sin, where he's going to try to defend traditional Calvinistic views.

And then, of course, his History of the Work of Redemption, which is unfinished.

I do have an entire video on this particular work right here.

It's a great work.

I commend it to you.

Original sin is a little bit interesting.

He's trying to defend, again, the doctrine of total depravity and Adam's fall, how that taints the human nature.

And that's where everything starts to change.

So you want to talk a little bit about Augustan Gnosticism and original sin.

Yeah.

So, I mean, Augustine, I think, is a brilliant, I mean, in some ways, he's one of the smartest people around.

And it really had a lot of implications.

But I actually think that that wasn't the main thing.

I think that underneath the surface, it was something more akin to his original sin thing or what we would think of as total depravity.

I tend to think that that's really the root, which is also a pagan Gnostic thing.

I think it's a very strange idea for us.

I think this, the same thing goes for, for our Jewish, uh, brothers and sisters as well, who also don't believe in original sin.

And the, the problem with that concept is who- there's many, but one, the one that comes forward is when we're talking about morality, is how can you be held accountable for something that's, uh, something that's automatic, i.e. part of your nature? Um, if, if you have, uh, uh, take any example, if you have something that has to make a certain sound when it's stepped on, how could you hold that thing accountable for making that sound if that's the way it was being created? Um, I don't know how, what, what are your thoughts on that? Are we, can we be held accountable to things out of our control?

You're...

Yeah.

I- it's so it's not about cornering you.

But what we're trying to say to you, brother, is this, right? That there are certain things that we're finding, uh, in, in the Bible, in the creation of Adam, in the concept of original sin, in the concept of forgiveness, actually, uh, that there are things within the Bible that c- clearly seem to contradict the narrative that Jesus was the blood sacrifice and there was no sacrifice after Jesus.

It also, by the way, in Ezek- in Ezekiel, if you study Ezekiel, it gives you the formula of how you're forgiven.

What greater evil or more atrocious wickedness can be imagined than the violent death of the innocent Son of God, who went about doing good and was wholly harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners? And yet what a rich and astonishing good resulted therefrom, even glory to God and peace and goodwill towards men.

End of Of the Providence of God, Part 1 by Thomas Boston Original Sin, Part 1 by William G.T. Shedd This is a LibriVox recording.

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org The sinfulness of that estate, status or condition, whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want of original righteousness and the corruption of the whole nature, which is commonly called original sin, together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.

Westminster Shorter Catechism 18 According to this doctrinal statement, there are three particulars under the general head of sin.

1.

His sin consisted in wickedness of heart, fully sufficient for and entirely amounting to all that appeared in the act he committed.

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