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- Humanity was original created in a state of Original justice
- A state of grace
- Without sin
- Benefits: no suffering or death
- Humanity would be at peace
- First parents blessed with “self mastery”
- Control over all desires and impulses
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- Genesis 3 uses figurative language, but describes and actual deed
- The root of sin is our opposition to God’s will
- So, what was the “original sin”
- Abuse of freedom
- Man preferred himself to God
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- Lost state of original justice
- Human nature is weakened
- There is now an inclination to sin
- Tensions within humanity
- Death enters humanity
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